German Economy 1980 to 1998. The novelty of the paper is the estimation of a time-varying NAIRU for West Germany employing …This paper is devoted to a new estimation of the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU) for the West …

" (NAIRU) for Germany. There are quite a few obstacles to perceiving the NAIRU as an understandable and easy-to-use analytical … is made to estimate a NAIRU for Germany based on conventional Phillips curves as well as on new approaches such as using …

Germany. The innovation of our research is that we do not just compare average male and female wages (of specific groups of …

This paper provides new estimates of a timevarying NAIRU for Germany taking account of the structural break caused by … inflation rates is employed. Therefore, either the NAIRU concept is not applicable to Germany or, as it is our suggestion, one … compatible with 2 percent inflation in Germany is currently around 7 percent if the definition of unemployment follows the …

This paper studies the importance of employer-specific determinants in escaping low earnings in Germany. To address the …

Using a large-scale linked-employer-employee data set from western Germany, this paper presents new evidence on the …