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In a simulation-based study with data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we analyze the effects of the newly introduced statutory minimum wage of 8.50 Euro per working hour in Germany on the gender wage gap. In our first scenario where we abstain from employment effects, the pay...
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It is commonplace in the debate on Germany’s labor market problems to argue that high unemployment and low wage … dispersion are related. This paper analyses the relationship between unemployment and residual wage dispersion for individuals … unemployment. A competing view regards wage dispersion as the outcome of search frictions and the associated monopsony power of the …
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Arbeitsmarktpolitik seit der Wiedervereinigung Lehren für Deutschland im Kampf gegen die Arbeitslosigkeit gezogen werden können. Zum … Quaisser und Karl-Heinz Willenborg die Tagung "Arbeitslosigkeit ohne Ende? Die Arbeitsmarkt- und Beschäftigungspolitik der … Ochel, ifo Institut, und Henry Werner, dänische Botschaft, Berlin, über die Arbeitsmarktpolitik der neuen EU …
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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 …
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This paper reviews the dramatic and widely noted developments in the German labor market in the past decade and surveys the most plausible reasons for these changes. Alternative hypotheses are compared and contrasted. I argue that the labor market reforms associated with the Agenda 2010 – the...
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