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Homeownership, Labour Market Transitions and Earnings
Kamionka, Thierry; Lacroix, Guy - 2018
The paper investigates the links between homeownership, employment and earnings for which no consensus exists in the literature. Our analysis is cast within a dynamic setting and the endogeneity of each outcome is assessed through the estimation of a flexible panel multivariate model with random...
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The German statutory minimum wage and its effects on regional employment and unemployment
Bonin, Holger; Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Krause-Pilatus, … - 2019
This paper studies the effects of the introduction of Germany's statutory minimum wage in 2015 on employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140777
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The Fall in German Unemployment: A Flow Analysis
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Launov, Andrey; Robin, Jean-Marc - 2018
participation, inequality and welfare in Germany. Unemployment fell because the Hartz IV reform induced a large fraction of the long …. Overall we find that Germany increased welfare as unemployment fell. …
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A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003
large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up … with alternative data sets for these countries. I find evidence for the Krugman hypothesis when Germany is compared to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297281
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A Test of the ?Krugman Hypothesis? for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003
large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up … with alternative data sets for these countries. I find evidence for the Krugman hypothesis when Germany is compared to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262722
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Transatlantic differences in labour markets changes in wage and non-employment structures in the 1980s and the 1990s
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2005
with and without apprenticeship training. I find evidence for the Krugman hypothesis when Germany is compared to the U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266860
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Alternative approaches to evaluation in empirical microeconomics
Blundell, Richard W.; Dias, Monica Costa - 2002
Four alternative but related approaches to empirical evaluation of policy interventions are studied: social experiments, natural experiments, matching methods, and instrumental variables. In each case the necessary assumptions and the data requirements are considered for estimation of a number...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318482
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Making Sense of Arab Labor Markets: The Enduring Legacy of Dualism
Assaad, Ragui - 2013
It is well-established that Arab labor markets share certain common characteristics, including an oversized public sector, high unemployment for educated youth, weak private sector dependent on government welfare for their survival, rapid growth in educational attainment, but much of it focused...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329175
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Whodunnit? Changes in the relative demand for unskilled and skilled labor
Schimmelpfennig, Axel - 1999
The secular shift in labor demand from unskilled to skilled labor is explained within a model that is solved numerically. There are three branches producing a basic good, a differentiated luxury good, and an intermediate service. Production is more skill-intensive in the luxury good and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333017
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Post-crisis recovery and efficiency of the labor market in Bulgaria
Pirimova, Vera - In: Journal of Contemporary Economic and Business Issues 2 (2015) 2, pp. 39-58
The report explores the impact of the crisis on the labor market efficiency in Bulgaria and the trends for its recovery. The main focus is set on one of the sub-criteria of the seventh pillar of the competitiveness evaluation, examined annually by the World Economic Forum. In particular, subject...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557603