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An unemployment insurance scheme for the euro area? : a comparison of different alternatives using micro data
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Neumann, Dirk; Peichl, … - 2014
We analyze different alternatives how a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA) could be designed and assess their effectiveness to act as an insurance device in the presence of asymmetric macroeconomic shocks. Running counterfactual simulations based on micro data for the...
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On the long-run unemployment, inflation, and volatility
Fasani, Stefano - 2021
This paper builds up a simple New Keynesian model and revisits the relationship between unemployment and in ation in the long-run. It finds that when the labor market is affected by downward nominal wage rigidity, this relationship goes beyond the tradeoff between the first moments of...
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Labor market policies during an epidemic
Birinci, Serdar; Karahan, Fatih; Mercan, Yusuf; See, Kurt - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012308027
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Extended benefit entitlement periods and the duration of unemployment in West Germany
Steiner, Viktor - 1997
Germany, as most other European countries, has been plagued by a persistently high level of long-term unemployment … level of long-term unemployment in Germany relative to the United States? …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440778
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Flexibilität der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur und Lastverteilung der Arbeitslosigkeit : eine ökonometrische Analyse für Westdeutschland
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 1998
Dieser Beitrag nimmt aus theoretischer und ökonometrischer Sicht zu der Kontroverse über die Bedeutung der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur zur Erklärung der Beschäftigungsstruktur Stellung. Basierend auf einer Einteilung in drei Qualifikationsgruppen zeigt sich empirisch, dass die Entlohnung...
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Education and unemployment : a French-German comparison
Lauer, Charlotte - 2003
examines the impact of education on both risk components. France faces a higher unemployment rate than West-Germany, due to a … higher risk of entering unemployment whereas the risk, when unemployed, of not getting reemployed is lower than in Germany … graduates face a higher risk of getting unemployed in Germany than in France. Concerning the reemployment prospects of the …
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Do fixed-term contracts increase the long-term employment opportunities of the unemployed?
Hagen, Tobias - 2003
The paper investigates whether (unsubsidised) fixed-term contracts (FTCs) are a means of integration for the unemployed in the West German labour market. This is done by analysing whether entering into an FTC improves the employment opportunities of an unemployed person in terms of the...
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The causes and consequences of early-adult unemployment : evidence from cohort data
Clark, Andrew E.; Lepinteur, Anthony - 2019 - This version: June 2019
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Job creation schemes in turbulent times
Bergemann, Annette; Pohlan, Laura; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2017
This paper analyzes the impact of job creation schemes (JCSs) on job search outcomes in the context of the turbulent East German labor market in the aftermath of the German reunification. High job destruction characterized the economic environment. JCSs were heavily used in order to cushion this...
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Intergenerational transmission of unemployment : evidence for German sons
Mäder, Miriam; Müller, Steffen; Riphahn, Regina T.; … - 2014
survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation …
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