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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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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 …
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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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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 26 to 41 years old working population in West-Germany during the 1980ties and 1990ties. The comprehensive IAB ….000 individuals from West-Germany. The application of flexible nonparametric estimators yields results which are less sensitive to … West-Germany during the past two decades. …
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This paper empirically analyzes the distribution of unemployment durations in West- Germany before and after the … West Germany. We introduce two proxies for unemployment, since the data do not involve a precise economic definition of …
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order to determine crucial factors that influence the distribution of unemployment duration in West Germany during the 1980s …
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duration of unemployment. Empirical results for the reform of the unemployment compensation system in Germany during the 1980s …
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changes in the unemployment compensation system enacted in Germany during the 1980s and 1990s to demonstrate that ?incentives …
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effects of the most important type of public sector sponsored training in Germany, namely the provision of specific … Germany compared to East Germany. …
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