the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

Although explanations of the persistence of high unemployment in Germany, in particular long-term unemployment, have …, these factors are analyzed based on a microeconometric model of individual transitions from unemployment into employment and …-Economic Panel for West Germany covering the period 1983 to 1992. The focus of the study is on the importance of 'negative duration …

This paper deals with a critical assessment and a reestimation of the "non-accelerating in ation rate of unemployment …" (NAIRU) for Germany. There are quite a few obstacles to perceiving the NAIRU as an understandable and easy-to-use analytical … occurrence of shocks and hysteresis effects, the (mis-)measurement of important variables such as in ation expectations …

large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up …

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 …This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based …

On the basis of a theoretical model, we argue that higher aggregate unemployment affects individual returns to … education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education … level in a standard Mincer equation. Our results show that an increase in regional unemployment by 1% decreases the returns …

This paper analyzes the dynamic effects of different macroeconomic shocks on unemployment in Germany. In a first step …, a cointegration analysis of productivity, prices, real wages, employment, and the unemployment rate reveals two long run … display that price, demand, and labor supply shocks affect unemployment significantly in the short/medium run. Interestingly …

, it reduces unemployment by exerting downward pressure on wages. This trade-off is quantitatively assessed using a … numerical model for Germany. The model combines a microsimulation module, which captures the labour-supply decisions of … bargaining and involuntary unemployment. In the simulations carried out using this model, the optimal degree of tax progressivity …

determined by the overall unemployment rate. It is argued both on analytical and numerical grounds that the second alternative is …