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Dual labour markets: A survey
Wapler, Rüdiger - 1999
Whereas the standard modern theories of unemployment were developed in the context of a single sector labour market … economies are discussed. It is shown that dual labour market theory is an important contribution to understanding unemployment …
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Offshoring of medium-skill jobs, polarization, and productivity effect : implications for wages and low-skill unemployment
Vallizadeh, Ehsan; Muysken, Joan; Ziesemer, Thomas - 2015
We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task-assignment model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010477956
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Evolution of the East German wage structure
Brüll, Eduard; Gathmann, Christina - 2020
We analyze the evolution of the wage structure in East Germany over the past two decades and compare it to West Germany. Both regions experienced a rise in wage inequality between 1995 and 2009 with wage dispersion in East Germany exceeding West Germany, esp. at the top. We also show that wage...
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Gender gaps of the unemployed : what drives diverging labor market outcomes?
Dauth, Christine - 2016
unemployment duration and the quality of reemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535887
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Labour Force Participation and Job Polarization : Evidence from Europe During the Great Recession
Verdugo, Gregory - 2020
the estimates of the impact of labour demand shocks on participation. For men, unemployment increased in response to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829225
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A test of the "Krugman hypothesis" for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003
Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448440
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Population with criminal records and racial disparity in labor markets
Boatner, Jasmine - In: IZA journal of labor policy 9 (2019) 1, pp. 1-13
Background: Although unemployment rates are at historical lows, there is still a persistent gap between unemployment …. Conclusions: Lowering the disproportionate rate at which black men are incarcerated will not in itself eliminate the unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012144886
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Unemployment versus inactivity: An analysis of the earnings and labor force status of prime age men in France, the UK, and the US at the end of the 20th century
Bi?áková, Alena - 2005
in France. The probability of unemployment as a function of the wage decreases more rapidly in the UK and the US than it … does in France. The low-skilled in France face a relatively similar risk of unemployment irrespective of their earning … capacity. In the UK and the US, unemployment is concentrated among the low-skilled at the very bottom of the wage distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335418
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Unemployment versus inactivity : an analysis of the earnings and labor force status of prime age men in France, the UK, and the US at the end of the 20th century
Bičáková, Alena (contributor) - 2005
in France. The probability of unemployment as a function of the wage decreases more rapidly in the UK and the US than it … does in France. The low-skilled in France face a relatively similar risk of unemployment irrespective of their earning … capacity. In the UK and the US, unemployment is concentrated among the low-skilled at the very bottom of the wage distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003117778
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A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003
Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297281