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Based on a two-country model it is scrutinized how the structure of the unemployment benefit system affects the consequences of idiosyncratic labor market shocks on real wages and unemployment in other countries. International spillover effects are caused by changes in world real income. The...
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"Using administrative linked employer-employee data from Germany, this paper analyses the real wage growth and career patterns of full-time employed low-wage workers between 2001 and 2006. Multivariate models accounting for sample selection demonstrate the relevance of individual characteristics...
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) Im neoklassischen Ansatz sinkt durch eine Nominallohnsenkung auch der Reallohn, was die Beschäftigung erhöht. Inflexible … Reallohn bleibt dann im großen und ganzen unverändert mit der Folge, daß auch die Arbeitslosigkeit erhalten bleibt … (b) wird angenommen, daß die Unternehmer zum herrschenden Reallohn jene Arbeitsmenge einsetzen, bei der sie ihren Gewinn …
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"This paper examines whether differences in wage rigidity across sectors can be explained by differences in workforce composition, wage-bargaining institutions, technology and competition. We rely on a large administrative matched employer-employee dataset for Belgium over the period 1990 -...
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"Using administrative linked employer-employee data from Germany, this paper analyses the real wage growth and career patterns of full-time employed low-wage workers between 2001 and 2006. Multivariate models accounting for sample selection demonstrate the relevance of individual characteristics...
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"This paper examines the joint impact of international trade and technical change on U.K. wages across different skill groups. International trade is measured as changes in product prices and technical change as total factor productivity (TFP) growth. We take account of a multi-sector and...
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"Focusing on the compression of wage cuts, many empirical studies find a high degree of downward nominal wage rigidity (DNWR). However, the resulting macroeconomic effects seem to be surprisingly weak. This contradiction can be explained within an intertemporal framework in which DNWR not only...
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data from the German Socio-economic Panel. Parameters are estimated by median regression. Human capital theory and job … changes decrease in experience according to human capital theory. But during a transition shock the introduction of new …-the-job search theory imply the following: A higher a worker's experience the higher his/her match quality and in turn the less (more …
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"So far little empirical evidence exists on how real wages of newly hired workers react to business cycle conditions. This paper aims at filling this gap for Germany by analyzing the cyclical behavior of real wages of newly hired workers while controlling for 'cyclical upgrading' and 'cyclical...
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