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Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment …
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This paper examines the performance of the German economy and the role of the regulation and welfare state policies in affecting its performance. While the German economy is still strong, incentives in place are likely to impair future German competitiveness and productivity
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Older Americans, even those who are long retired, have strong willingness to work, especially in jobs with flexible schedules. For many, labor force participation near or after normal retirement age is limited more by a lack of acceptable job opportunities or low expectations about finding them...
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allows us to control for unmeasured country-specific factors that affect relative employment and unemployment, we find that … of young and older individuals relative to the prime-aged, with no significant effects on the relative unemployment of … raises female unemployment relative to male unemployment. These results suggest that union wage-setting policies price the …
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A political miracle occurred when Germany was reunited, and at first glance an economic miracle has followed. Real … west Germany. Excessively high wages coupled with investment incentives that made the cost of capital negative rank high …
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to lower unemployment. Whether work-sharing works - whether employment rises when hours per worker are reduced - is …
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A transformation of what had become a universal 40 hour standard work week in Germany began in 1985 with reductions …
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West Germany's Employment Promotion Act of 1985 facilitated the use of fixed term contracts and increased the number of …
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million more full-time workers on four-day weeks. The same growth occurred in the Netherlands, Germany, and South Korea. The …
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There are 420 million young people in Africa today. Understanding how youth search for jobs and what affects their ability to find good jobs is of paramount importance. We do so using a field experiment tracking young job seekers for six years in Uganda's main cities. We examine how two standard...
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