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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? Microeconometric evidence from the 1990s

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001

This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ?rigid? in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...

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A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003

large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up … with alternative data sets for these countries. I find evidence for the Krugman hypothesis when Germany is compared to the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297281

Reforming Social Welfare as We Know It? A Microsimulation Study for Germany

Jacobebbinghaus, Peter; Steiner, Viktor - 2003

-specified time limits, are viewed as one important reason for the persistently high level of unemployment in Germany by many … typically assumed by contributors to recent discussions on the potential labour market effects of welfare reforms in Germany …

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Extended benefit entitlement periods and the duration of unemployment in West Germany

Steiner, Viktor - 1997

Germany1, 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? …

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Employment Effects of Publicly Financed Training Programs The East German Experience

Kraus, Florian; Puhani, Patrick A.; Steiner, Viktor - 1997

We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their …

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Labour mobility - an adjustment mechanism in Euroland? Empirical evidence for Western Germany, France and Italy

Puhani, Patrick A. - 1999

European Union. Regression results are provided for Western Germany, France, and Italy. It is shown that labour mobility is … highest in Germany, followed by France, and Italy. However, even in Germany, the accommodation of a shock to unemployment by …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297645

Returns to education in West Germany: an empirical assessment

Lauer, Charlotte; Steiner, Viktor - 2000

This paper analyses the developments in the returns to education in West Germany for the period from 1984 to 1997 …

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Cohort effects and the returns to education in West Germany

Boockmann, Bernhard; Steiner, Viktor - 2000

Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born between 1925 and 1974. The main problem to be tackled in the specification is to separately identify cohort, experience, and possibly also age effects in the returns. For women,...

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Private Erträge von Bildungsinvestitionen in Deutschland

Steiner, Viktor; Lauer, Charlotte - 2000

Deutschland geschätzten Bildungsrenditen mit den für die anderen Mitgliedstaaten der Europäischen Union berechneten …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297681

Immigration and Heterogeneous Labor in Western Germany: A Labor Market Classification Based on Nonparametric Estimation

Puhani, Patrick A.; Frölich, Markus - 2002

policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an application to western Germany it is demonstrated that nonparametric …

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