macroeconomic factors--including the unemployment rate and generosity of the unemployment compensation system--as well as individual …-specific determinants, such as human capital proxies and length of unemployment spell. The longitudinal dataset provides an interesting … unemployment to employment. The findings shed light on the disincentive effects of the German tax and transfer system for the …

for interpreting trends in wage shares, capital-labor ratios, and aggregate unemployment. … forces. The rigidity of relative wages, despite relative shifts in labor demand that favor skilled workers, has resulted in …