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The empirical relevance of minimum wages for the low-wage sector
Ragnitz, Joachim; Thum, Marcel - In: CESifo Forum 08 (2007) 2, pp. 35-37
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695869
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Imposed benefit sanctions and the unemployment-to-employment transition : the German experience
Müller, Kai-Uwe (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2008
positive short- and long-term effects of benefit sanctions which are robust for men and women in East and West Germany. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716523
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Human capital and ethnic self-identification of immigrants
Zimmermann, Laura; Gataullina, Liliya; Constant, Amelie; … - In: Economics letters 98 (2008) 3, pp. 235-239
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003719115
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Would a legal minimum wage reduce poverty? : a microsimulation study for Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2008
an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal … and had no negative employment effects. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726086
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Imposed benefit sanctions and the unemployment-to-employment transition : the German experience
Müller, Kai-Uwe (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2008
positive short- and long-term effects of benefit sanctions which are robust for men and women in East and West Germany. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726098
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Creating low skilled jobs by subsidizing market-contracted household work
Brück, Tilman; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: Applied economics 38 (2006) 8, pp. 899-911
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003330936
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Bad Bank(s) and the recapitalisation of the banking sector
Schäfer, Dorothea; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 44 (2009) 4, pp. 215-225
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003866013
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Explaining the East German productivity gap : the role of human capital
Ragnitz, Joachim (contributor) - 2007
The paper concentrates on the question whether the low level of productivity in East Germany can be explained by … capital endowments; in fact, the effective stock on human capital in East Germany is lower than in West Germany when … younger cohorts. This impedes a fast convergence in productivity between East and West Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003414320
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Human capital and ethnic self-identification of migrants
Zimmermann, Laura; Gataullina, Liliya; Constant, Amelie; … - 2006
"The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic self-identification. Human capital acquired in the host country does not affect the attachment to the receiving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003373400
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Human capital and ethnic self-identification of migrants
Zimmermann, Laura; Gataullina, Liliya; Constant, Amelie; … - 2006
The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic selfidentification. Human capital acquired in the host country does not affect the attachment to the receiving country.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003377093