changes in the unemployment compensation system enacted in Germany during the 1980s and 1990s to demonstrate that incentivesʺ …

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 …

noncognitive skills and Internet use. Noncognitive skills and Internet availability at home are negatively associated with the … education vanishes for males once we control for additional characteristics such as occupations, professional Internet use and …

. We combine data on high-speed (broadband) internet availability at the local level with individual register data on the … unemployed in Germany. We address endogeneity by exploiting technological peculiarities in the network that affected the roll …-out of high-speed internet. The results show that high-speed internet improves reemployment rates after the first months of …

It is commonplace in the debate on Germany’s labor market problems to argue that high unemployment and low wage … empirical analysis attempts to discriminate between the two hypotheses for West Germany analyzing the relationship between wage …