unemployment when taking place in industries characterized by low skilled wage rigidity. Thus, in terms of unemployment, not …

have boosted German competitiveness, resulting in higher exports, higher production and lower unemployment. This … explains the gains in competitiveness but increases unemployment and inequality, and the subsequent labour market reforms lower … unemployment by lessening the reservation wage and expanding the non-tradable sector. The model replicates the developments of the …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …

In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work and labour market … participation amongst prime-aged Germans. We show that unemployment fell because the Hartz reforms induced a large fraction of the … probabilities show that observed changes in the stocks of registered and unregistered unemployment as well as marginal, contributed …