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Spillover effects of labour market reforms in a three-country world
Fries, Claudia - 2015
allowing for third-country effects. When the workhorse two-country model is enlarged to include a third country, a reform … considerably. Differences in the reform spillover effects between foreign countries are mainly due to differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286047
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The German labour market reforms in a European context : a DSGE analysis
Fries, Claudia; Seymen, Atılım - 2013
While a widespread consensus exists among macroeconomists that the German labour market reforms in 2003-2005 have successfully contributed to the decline of the unemployment rate, critics claim that the reforms led to wage restraint and consequently consumption dampening accompanied by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010204043
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Labour market institutions and structural reforms : a source for business cycle synchronisation?
Sachs, Andreas; Schleer, Frauke - 2009
investigates direct and delayed reform effects on synchronisation by applying robustness tests to a panel data framework with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003813977
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Institutions and unemployment : do interactions matter?
Sachs, Andreas - 2011
Isolated effects of labor and product market institutions as well as the interaction between both aforementioned categories on unemployment have been extensively discussed in the empirical literature. However, interaction effects between individual labor market institutions have been widely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009298928
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Alternative approaches to discrete working time choice in an AGE framework
Arntz, Melanie (contributor); Boeters, Stefan (contributor);  … - 2005
We compare two options of integrating discrete working time choice of heterogenous households into a general equilibrium model. The first, known from the literature, produces household heterogeneity through a working time preference parameter. We contrast this with a model that directly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003114240
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The drivers of deregulation in the era of globalization
Heinemann, Friedrich (contributor) - 2006
This paper treats the question to what extent globalization trends restrict a countryspecific regulation policy in industrial countries. The empirical analysis makes use of recently collected regulation indicators for four policy fields: financial market, product markets, labour markets and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301116
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Jobs. Jobs? Jobs! : Orientierungshilfen für den Weg zu mehr Beschäftigung
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 2000
Die Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit genießt oberste wirtschaftspolitische Priorität - dieser Feststellung wird kaum jemand widersprechen wollen. Eher scheiden sich die Geister an der Frage nach dem "wirklichen" quantitativen Ausmaß der Unterbeschäftigung, ihren Ursachen und welche...
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A Bayesian approach to determine the impact of institutions on the unemployment rate
Sachs, Andreas - 2010
Labor and product market regulations affect the unemployment rate of a country without doubt. Econometricians, however, have yet to establish an unequivocal significance of this impact. Model mis-specification, one of the main underlying problems, is overcome by adopting a Bayesian Model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008652532
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Private job placement services : a microeconometric evaluation for Germany
Winterhager, Henrik (contributor) - 2006
In recent years, coinciding with the discussion led in many OECD countries, Germany has started to contract out placement services for the unemployed to private agencies. Whereas in the Netherlands and Australia the whole system of employment services was reorganized at once, making an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314709
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A macroeconomic model for the evaluation of labor market reforms
Krebs, Tom; Scheffel, Martin - 2010
of labor market reform on unemployment, growth, and welfare. The model has a large number of risk-averse households who … macroeconomic effects of the German labor market reforms of 2005 and 2006 (Hartz Reforms). We find that the 2005-reform had large … 2006-reform are qualitatively similar, but quantitatively much smaller. We also show that the social welfare maximizing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008651589