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Central banks need to be concerned about wages since they are a major driver of inflation. Rising wages are needed to … expectations about inflation and future growth. Migration plays a significant role to balance wages across regions and countries …
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This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
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expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and … search and matching model of the labor market. Removing the biases could substantially increase wages and expected lifetime …
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expectations and wages, and a significantly positive relationship between optimistic bias in job finding expectations and … search and matching model of the labor market. Removing the biases could substantially increase wages and expected lifetime …
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Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment … rather than wages, at odds with the quantitative predictions of the canonical search model – even if wages are only … reservation wages, and consider an alternative reservation wage model based on reference dependence in job search. This extension …
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The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that new immigrant workers earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries,...
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security system in an economy with unemployment caused by trade unions. Using a simple two-period overlapping generations …
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einer geringen Qualifikation behindert und zum Anstieg der Arbeitslosigkeit beigetragen. … percent). Thus, the incentives to work are strongly impaired. The downward adjustment of wages for low skilled workers was … impeded by the system of social assistance. As a consequence, unemployment increased. …
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Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and … the quality of the work found by the unemployed. This quality rise, in terms of both wages and duration, can be achieved …
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workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …
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