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Einstellungsgutscheine: Effektivität und Umsetzung

Boss, Alfred; Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; … - In: Journal for labour market research 42 (2009/10) 3, pp. 252-266

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Einstellungsgutscheine: konkrete Ausgestaltung für Deutschland

Boss, Alfred; Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; … - 2007

of time. The size of the vouchers increases with the duration of unemployment as well as with the qualification and … of unemployment durations and qualifications. We develop a simple formula to calculate the size of the voucher depending … on the new wage, the duration of unemployment and the subsequent employment duration. …

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Escaping the unemployment trap : the case of East Germany

Merkl, Christian (contributor); … - 2008 - Rev. version

This paper addresses the question of why prolonged regional unemployment differentials tend to persist even after their … proximate causes have been reversed (e.g., after wages in the highunemployment regions have fallen relative to those in the low-unemployment …

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Escaping the unemployment trap : the case of East Germany

Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 36 (2008) 4, pp. 542-556

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The effect of low-wage subsidies on skills and employment

Oskamp, Frank (contributor); Snower, Dennis J. (contributor) - 2006

We explore the far-reaching implications of low-wage subsidies on aggregate employment. Low-wage subsidies have three important effects. First, they promote employment of unskilled workers (who tend to be the ones who earn low wages). Second, by raising the payoff of unskilled work relative to...