socio-economic groups and their potential correlation with perceived concerns about labour market competition. Against the … competitors on the labour market. (iii) The perception of potential competition from migrants strongly predicts fear of job loss …

socio-economic groups and their potential correlation with perceived concerns about labour market competition. Against the …) The perception of potential competition from migrants strongly predicts fear of job loss. Once we control for this …

This paper analyzes the dynamic effects of different macroeconomic shocks on unemployment in Germany. In a first step …, a cointegration analysis of productivity, prices, real wages, employment, and the unemployment rate reveals two long run … display that price, demand, and labor supply shocks affect unemployment significantly in the short/medium run. Interestingly …

Having the high unemployment in Germany in mind, this book discusses how macroeconomic theory has evolved over the past …

(2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching framework, is replicated with a richer and more … is augmented by endogenous strategic hiring behavior on the side of vacancyposting firms. Neglecting job competition, the …

economies face since the early nineties, the problem of lasting high unemployment. Contrary to the current German discussion … countries. -- The first chapter contains the main standard textbook models and paradigms explaining lasting high unemployment …. The question in the second chapter is if it is possible to fight unemployment with the help of macro policy on a purely …