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Women's Fertility and Employment Decisions under Two Political Systems - Comparing East and West Germany before Reunification

Bredtmann, Julia; Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra - 2009

Over the last decades fertility rates have decreased in most developed countries, while female labour force participation has increased strongly over the same time period. To shed light on the relationship between women's fertility and employment decisions, we analyse their transitions to the...

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When Does It Hurt? The Exchange Rate ""Pain Threshold"" for German Exports

Belke, Ansgar; Goecke, Matthias; Guenther, Martin - 2009

This paper deals with the impact of the $/Euro exchange rate on German exports in the period from 1995Q1 to 2008Q4. Our main aim is to identify pain thresholds for German exporters. We rely on a non-linear model according to which suddenly strong spurts of exports occur when changes of the EXR...

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Labor Market Reforms and Current Account Imbalances - Beggar-thy-Neighbor Policies in a Currency Union?

Baas, Timo; Belke, Ansgar - 2014

Member countries of the European Monetary Union (EMU) initiated wideranging labor market reforms in the last decade. This process is ongoing as countries that are faced with serious labor market imbalances perceive reforms as the fastest way to restore competitiveness within a currency union....

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Labor Market Reforms and Current Account Imbalances - Beggar-thy-Neighbor Policies in a Currency Union?

Baas, Timo; Belke, Ansgar - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014

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When Does It Hurt? The Exchange Rate "Pain Threshold" for German Exports

Belke, Ansgar; Goecke, Matthias; Guenther, Martin - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009

This paper deals with the impact of the $/Euro exchange rate on German exports in the period from 1995Q1 to 2008Q4. Our main aim is to identify "pain thresholds" for German exporters. We rely on a non-linear model according to which suddenly strong spurts of exports occur when changes of the EXR...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509374

Killing them with Kindness: Negative Distributional Externalities of Increasing UI Benefits

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Vorell, Matthias - 2009

-term unemployment insurance has not received much attention. In this paper we examine distributional effects of labour earnings and … unemployment benefits using simulated increases in unemployment insurance replacement rates or equivalently, increases in the net … negative labour supply effects, drawing those employed into unemployment shifting the mass of the earnings distribution to the …

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