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Modelling Unemployment in the Presence of Excess Labour Supply - An Application to Egypt
Peeters, Marga - 2011
The demographic structure of Egypt has the form of a pyramid, indicating that labour supply will grow at a relatively high rate for many years to come. Unless emigration flows will rise, Egypt needs to create jobs at a much higher pace than most other countries around the globe to absorb the new...
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Mikroökonomische Beschäftigungseffekte des Hamburger Modells zur Beschäftigungsförderung
Jirjahn, Uwe; Pfeifer, Christian; Tsertsvadze, Georgi - 2006
Das Hamburger Modell zur Beschäftigungsförderung zielt darauf ab, Arbeitslose mit geringen Verdienstmöglichkeiten und schlechten Arbeitsmarktchancen durch zeitlich befristete Zuschüsse, die sowohl den Teilnehmern an der Maßnahme als auch den Arbeitgebern gewährt werden, in den regulären...
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Parität zwischen Vakanzen und Arbeitslosen am deutschen Arbeitsmarkt fast erreicht
Kubis, Alexander - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 102 (2022) 9, pp. 680-682
With 1.9 million vacancies available to 2.3 million registered unemployed persons, parity in the German labour market has almost been achieved. Such parity however may produce labour shortages that go far beyond small bottlenecks, which are limited to particular regions and industries. In the...
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The gender gap in earnings losses after job displacement
Illing, Hannah; Schmieder, Johannes; Trenkle, Simon - 2021
Existing research has shown that job displacement leads to large and persistent earnings losses for men, but evidence for women is scarce. Using administrative data from Germany, we apply an event study design in combination with propensity score matching and a reweighting technique to directly...
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The Gender Gap in Earnings Losses after Job Displacement
Illing, Hannah; Schmieder, Johannes F.; Trenkle, Simon - 2021
Existing research has shown that job displacement leads to large and persistent earnings losses for men, but evidence for women is scarce. Using administrative data from Germany, we apply an event study design in combination with propensity score matching and a reweighting technique to directly...
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Overtime Work and Overtime Compensation in Germany
Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Bauer, Thomas K. - 2021
Sharing the available stock of work more fairly is a popular concern in the public policy debate. One proposal is to reduce overtime work in order to allow the employment of more people. This paper suggests that such a concept faces major problems. Using Germany as a case study, it is shown that...
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Parität zwischen Vakanzen und Arbeitslosen am deutschen Arbeitsmarkt fast erreicht
Kubis, Alexander - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 102 (2022) 9, pp. 680-682
With 1.9 million vacancies available to 2.3 million registered unemployed persons, parity in the German labour market has almost been achieved. Such parity however may produce labour shortages that go far beyond small bottlenecks, which are limited to particular regions and industries. In the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013367769
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Market Work, Home Production, Consumer Demand and Unemployment Among the Unskilled
Lührmann, Melanie; Weiss, Matthias - 2014
This paper introduces a new argument into the theoretical literature on labor market effects of changes in working hours and labor force participation. We advance a general equilibrium model in which increased labor supply reduces unskilled unemployment via consumer demand: longer work hours and...
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Fachkräfteengpässe und Arbeitslosigkeit in Europa: Wanderung als kurzfristiger Ausgleichmechanismus
Demary, Markus; Erdmann, Vera - In: IW-Trends - Vierteljahresschrift zur empirischen … 39 (2012) 3, pp. 35-48
Wachstumspotenziale in den kommenden zwei Jahren aufgrund fehlender Fachkräfte unausgeschöpft blieben. In Deutschland lag der Anteil bei … Griechenland nach Deutschland, Schweden oder Österreich können die regionalen Arbeitsmarktungleichgewichte abgebaut werden. So … Erwerbspersonen abzumildern. Daher kommt der Aktivierung der inländischen Fachkräftepotenziale auf lange Sicht auch in Deutschland die …
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Why is old workers' labor market more volatile? : unemployment fluctuations over the life-cycle
Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François; Sopraseuth, … - 2014
Since the last recession, it is usually argued that older workers are less affected by the economic downturn because their unemployment rate rose less than the one of prime-age workers. This view is a myth: older workers are more sensitive to the business cycle. We document volatilities of...
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