German Economy 1980 to 1998. The novelty of the paper is the estimation of a time-varying NAIRU for West Germany employing …This paper is devoted to a new estimation of the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU) for the West …

" (NAIRU) for Germany. There are quite a few obstacles to perceiving the NAIRU as an understandable and easy-to-use analytical … is made to estimate a NAIRU for Germany based on conventional Phillips curves as well as on new approaches such as using …

This paper provides new estimates of a timevarying NAIRU for Germany taking account of the structural break caused by … inflation rates is employed. Therefore, either the NAIRU concept is not applicable to Germany or, as it is our suggestion, one … compatible with 2 percent inflation in Germany is currently around 7 percent if the definition of unemployment follows the …

quits are important reasons for wage rigidities for high skilled labour. Compared to findings from the USA, in Germany …

data covering the time period 1980 to 1991 in West Germany and is based on a hazard rate model. …

At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage policy in Germany are …