High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … individual panel data for Germany and repeated cross-sectional data for the United States and the European Union show that the … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private …

High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … individual panel data for Germany and repeated cross-sectional data for the United States and the European Union show that the … sensitivity of subjective well-being to fluctuations in unemployment rates is much lower in the public sector than in the private …

evaluate the effects of an increasing low-wage sector on unemployment, the concept of the non-accelerating inflation rate of … unemployment (NAIRU) is used. In a first step, the unobservable, exogenous NAIRU is estimated for Germany in a state space setting …The creation of jobs in the low-pay sector is considered to be an approach to reduce unemployment, especially with …

not provide a strong argument against low inflation targets. …

large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up …

large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up …

Abwärtsnominallohnrigidität in Deutschland erheblich ist. Die realen Implikationen der nach unten starren Nominallöhne sind bei konstantem … Abwärtsnominallohnrigidität selbst vom inflationären Umfeld abhängt und in Jahren mit niedriger Inflation sinkt. This paper examines the existence … found that the extent of downward nominal wage rigidity in Germany is considerable. The real implications of the downward …

This paper deals with a critical assessment and a reestimation of the "non-accelerating in ation rate of unemployment …" (NAIRU) for Germany. There are quite a few obstacles to perceiving the NAIRU as an understandable and easy-to-use analytical … is made to estimate a NAIRU for Germany based on conventional Phillips curves as well as on new approaches such as using …