This paper investigates the causal effect of global value chain (GVC)-related trade on the German labor market during the COVID-19 crisis, using a difference-in-differences approach combined with entropy balancing. The analysis of monthly establishment-level data from January 2019 to December...

The drafting and adoption of laws in the social sphere is always preceded by a long discussion, which is accompanied by sharp discussions. All changes in this area directly or indirectly affect the entire population of the country. In the first years of adoption of the new legislation, its...

Front Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Abbreviations; Overview; Background: Unemployment and Fragility; Prevailing Approaches to Employment Generation; New Thinking Regarding Employment Generation in Fragile Environments; Agriculture Value Chain Development: An Underexploited...

This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ?rigid? in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...