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local labour market is in close proximity of other labour markets, a local shock that increases unemployment may not lead to … lower pay rates if employers fear outward migration of their workers. Hence, the unemployment elasticity of pay will be … western Germany over the period 1990-97. Key words: Unemployment, wage formation, spatial analysis, local monopsony, Germany …
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that had been characterized for many years by high unemployment and declining employment. Beginning in 2005, however, the … young and smaller cohorts has affected the declining unemployment rate in East Germany. This paper tackles the question of … the ties between demography and unemployment in East Germany and to this end draws on the concepts of the cohort crowding …
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This paper analyses a local marketing campaign that provided information about unproven age-re-lated stereotypes and the value of older workers in Germany. The campaign was designed to increase the hiring rate of older workers. Using comprehensive register data, we find that the information...
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Much research has been done showing that unemployment can cause crime, and that crime adversely impacts economic … find evidence for the possibility of a vicious cycle, with unemployment leading to higher crime rates and crime rates … raising unemployment. I further find that especially employment in low-skill service jobs is adversely affected by crime, that …
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We evaluate the ability of the labor market search and matching framework to account for the variation in aggregate hours worked. The model we develop and estimate features search frictions in the labor market, capital and investment adjustment costs, as well as variable hours at the worker...
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with the analysed phenomena. In this paper, provincial time series of unemployment rates in Spain are used in order to … along time and with the effects of scale in the regionalisation process. Keywords: Unemployment, normative region …
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partners in the marriage market and switch between employment and unemployment in the labor market. In the marriage market … labor market divorces triggered by unemployment has decreased significantly. …
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This work refers to analyses of matching processes on occupational labour markets in Germany. Up to now, all studies in this field are based on the crucial assumption of separate occupational labour markets. I outlined some theoretical considerations that occupational markets are probably not...
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, such as GDP per capita, employment/unemployment rates, household savings and use them to compare the regional disparities …
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This paper investigates the evolution of the geographical distribution of unemployment rates in a sample of 258 NUTS-2 … institutional factors shaping regional unemployment disparities. To that end, the present analysis uses recently developed spatial … kernels are used to analyze the e_x000B_ect of the various factors in the shape of the whole distribution of unemployment rate …
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