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This paper presents a dynamic theory of housing market fluctuations. It develops a life-cycle model where households …
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The paper deals with the importance of trade unions in former times and at the present time. The author compares the … half of the 19th century as essential causes of the trade unions rise with the present situation and deals with the … question, whether the differences are so essential that society could and should renounce the functions of trade unions without …
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This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that wage inequality is rising strongly – driven not only by...
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The introduction of opening clauses in collective wage agreements allowing firms to deviate from their collective bargaining agreements has become widely accepted for the last fifteen years. With respect to the flexibility agreed through collective bargaining, the distinctions between single...
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Das ifo Geschäftsklima, der wichtigste Indikator für die Konjunktur in Deutschland, ist als Mittelwert der beiden … Konjunktur – visualisiert als Lage-Erwartungsgraph – in diesem Diagramm kreisförmig im Uhrzeigersinn, weil der …
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We show how on-the-job search and the propagation of shocks to the economy are intricately linked. Rising search by employed workers in a boom amplifies the incentives of firms to post vacancies. In turn, more vacancies induce more on-the-job search. By keeping job creation costs low for firms,...
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This paper develops a search-matching model, where producers provide effort to find customers (e.g. in form of advertising and marketing expenditures). Firms form long-term contractual relationships and bargain over prices. The price bargain results in mark up pricing above marginal cost. The...
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Am letzten Sonntag fanden in der Türkei Parlamentswahlen statt, Anlass, einen genaueren Blick auf die jüngste Wirtschaftsentwicklung des Landes zu werfen. Diese ist von einem hohen Wirtschaftswachstum gekennzeichnet, allerdings getrübt durch die schweren Rezessionen der Jahre 2001 und...
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The terrorist attacks of September 11 have challenged the view that the U.S. economy is on the brink of recovery. This article discusses the effects of the attacks on real GDP taking the Kiel InstituteÂ’s forecast of September 10 as the baseline scenario. The focus is on assessing the direct...
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In der modernen Konjunkturtheorie sind Konjunkturzyklen als Schwankungen des Auslastungsgrades des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Produktionspotentials definiert. Das ifo Institut veröffentlicht im Rahmen des ifo Konjunkturtests originäre vierteljährliche Daten über die Kapazitätsauslastung im...
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