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Is East Germany Catching Up? A Time Series Perspective
Aumann, Bernd; Scheufele, Rolf - 2009
This paper assesses whether the economy of East Germany is catching up with the West German region in terms of welfare. While the primary measure for convergence and catching up is per capita output, we also look at other macroeconomic indicators such as unemployment rates, wage rates, and...
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What Happened to the East German Housing Market? – A Historical Perspective on the Role of Public Funding –
Michelsen, Claus; Weiß, Dominik - 2009
The paper analyses the development of the East German housing market after the reunification of the former German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany in 1990. We analyse the dynamics of the East German housing market within the framework of the wellknown stockflow model,...
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Long-term unemployment, technical progress and capital mobility in an open growth-matching model
Birk, Angela - 2002
Wie beeinflusst der technische Fortschritt die Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit in einer kleinen geöffneten Ökonomie? Diese … sowohl die Dauer der Arbeitslosigkeit als auch die Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit negativ. In dem Modell wird zusätzlich gezeigt …
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Long-term unemployment and subsidizing vacancies in a growth-matching model
Birk, Angela - 2001
Wie kann die Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit durch geeignete Politikmaßnahmen des Staates reduziert werden? In diesem Artikel … Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit impliziert. Da der positive aus der Vakanzsubventionierung resultierende Substitutionseffekt den negativen … Staat mit Hilfe der Subventionierung von Vakanzen, eine Verringerung der Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit erreichen. …
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Qualification-mismatch and long-term unemployment in a growth-matching model
Birk, Angela - 2001
Wie beeinflusst der technische Fortschritt die Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit? Die Beziehung zwischen … Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit und der Wachstumsrate des technischen Fortschritts wird in einem Wachstums-Matching-Modell mit heterogenen … Arbeitslosen und mit endogen bestimmter Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit, die auf Qualifikationsverlust zurückzuführen ist, analysiert. Für …
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The Targeted Negative Income Tax (TNIT) in Germany: Evidence from a Quasi Experiment
Spermann, Alexander; Strotmann, Harald - 2005
We report empirical evidence from the first field experiments to be conducted in Germany with program and control groups between 1999 and 2002. The evaluated program called ?Targeted Negative Income Tax (TNIT)? is a time-restricted employee subsidy for means-tested welfare recipients. We focus...
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Do Long-term Unemployed Workers Benefit from Targeted Wage Subsidies?
Schünemann, Benjamin; Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - 2013
We evaluate a wage subsidy program that is targeted at long-term unemployed workers in Germany. We use an alternative identification procedure compared to empirical studies con­ducted so far. Exploiting the particular program regulations and large administrative data we estimate the impact of...
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The Labor Market in the Great Recession: An Update
Elsby, Michael W.L.; Hobijn, Bart; Sahin, Aysegul; … - 2011
Since the end of the Great Recession in mid-2009, the unemployment rate has recovered slowly, falling by only one percentage point from its peak. We find that the lackluster labor market recovery can be traced in large part to weakness in aggregate demand; only a small part seems attributable to...
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Active labour market policies in a recession
Andersen, Torben M.; Svarer, Michael - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-24
A major labour market challenge following the Great Recession is to avoid an increase in long-term unemployment and thus the structural unemployment rate. Active labour market policies may play an important role in this respect. We consider these issues with outset in Denmark which is a country...
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The Phillips curve and long-term unemployment
Llaudes, Ricardo - 2005
This paper studies the role of long-term unemployment in the determination of prices and wages. Labor market theories such as insider-outsider models predict that this type of unemployed are less relevant in the wage formation process than the newly unemployed. This paper looks for evidence of...
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