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This paper examines theoretical and empirical aspects of the employment in Germany from 2000 – 2013. Inspired by Krelle’s (1996) discussion paper relevant German labor market data are traced and it is analyzed to which extend some theoretical employment considerations and labor market reform...
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unemployment rates are studied. Applying a range of unit-root tests to monthly data from Australia, Austria, Canada, Finland …, Sweden, the U.K. and the U.S., we find results for employment rates that contrast those based on unemployment rates. In … particular, rather than the mixed evidence for hysteresis found using unemployment rates, employment rates result in unequivocal …
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Conducted by Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics, the labour force survey is the main source of information regarding the labour force in Israel.
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Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences between immigrants by source country. Non-western immigrants never reach parity with native Dutch. Even second generation immigrants never fully catch up...
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We estimate the causal effect of immigration on unemployment, employment and wages of resident employees in Switzerland … have crowded out natives, our quasi-experimental results reveal that immigration has in fact reduced unemployment and …
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2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …
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Despite the recovery of economic growth in Latin America during the 1990s, rising unemployment, high informality rates …
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Conventional wisdom suggests that nominal, demand-side shocks have only temporary effects on real macroeconomic magnitudes and that the duration of their effects depends on the degree of nominal inertia. It is also argued that, in the absence of unit roots, temporary supply-side shocks also have...
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