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From its early post-war catch-up phase, Germany’s formidable export engine has been its consistent driver of growth. But Germany has almost equally consistently run current account surpluses. Exports have powered the dynamic phases and helped emerge from stagnation. Volatile external...
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-term unemployed. In this paper, we use an incomplete-market model with search unemployment to evaluate the macro-economic and welfare … German unemployment insurance system and resulted in a significant reduction in unemployment benefits for the long …-run (noncyclical) unemployment rate in Germany by 1.4 percentage points. We also find that the welfare of employed households increases …
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This paper examines age- and gender-specific employment sensitivity to growth across different economic sectors. By …-, gender-, and sector-specific employment intensities to growth. Our study examines the ability of growth in different sectors … to generate total employment opportunities. Results show that regardless of gender or age, the employment growth is …
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We empirically investigate how two-tier unemployment compensation schemes affect the profile of re-employment hazards … declines. For the long-term unemployed, we find none and for certain groups of job seekers even negative impacts on the re-employment …. We exploit the aggravation of an existing two-tier scheme in Germany in 2005 and estimate its impact on re-employment …
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policies for the welfare state are analysed: Unemployment accounts, employment subsidies and flexicurity. Finally, a new …
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