The view that high unemployment in West Germany and other European countries is caused by a path dependence effect - or … is argued that in a cointegration framework it is reasonable to define hysteresis as the absence of weak exogeneity of …

The creation of jobs in the low-pay sector is considered to be an approach to reduce unemployment, especially with … evaluate the effects of an increasing low-wage sector on unemployment, the concept of the non-accelerating inflation rate of … unemployment (NAIRU) is used. In a first step, the unobservable, exogenous NAIRU is estimated for Germany in a state space setting …

/price-setting theory, this increase should reduce structural unemployment, because labour market flexibility increases and labour costs … impact of the relationship between the extensiveness of the low-pay sector and structural unemployment. Data from Germany … 1991 to 2008, indicate a positive impact of the growing low-wage sector on structural unemployment. Moreover, some …

The view that high unemployment in West Germany and other European countries is caused by a path dependence effect - or … is argued that in a cointegration framework it is reasonable to define hysteresis as the cointegration model of the …

In this paper we analyze the sources of German unemployment within a structural vector error correction model (SVECM … parameter restrictions. A cointegration analysis for the unified Germany reveals a long rum relationship between real wages …, productivity and unemployment which is interpreted as a wage setting relation. From a Subset VECM we identify meaningful structural …

rate, unemployment and inflation in West Germany from the early 1960s up to 2004 using a multivariate co-integration …New-Keynesian macroeconomic models typically assume that any long-run trade-off between inflation and unemployment is … data a strong negative correlation between the trend components of inflation and unemployment. We show that this finding …