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This paper provides detailed empirical evidence on the scope of mismatch in Germany in the past decade, using a … suggest that regional mismatch did not play an important role in explaining movements of aggregate unemployment. Across … industries and occupations, there was a decrease in mismatch unemployment from over 5 percent to below 4 percent (on the highest …
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immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with …
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market improved from 2010 to 2014. We find that a 1 percentage point reduction in the local unemployment rate is associated …
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Using a novel database of 159 million online job postings, we examine changes in employer skill requirements for education and specific skillsets between 2007 and 2017. We find that upskilling - in terms of increasing demands for bachelor's degrees as well as software skills - was a persistent...
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more of them are residing with their parents. The unemployment rate at 23-27 years old for the 1996 college graduation … explain two thirds of the rise in unemployment and coresidence between the 2013 and 1996 graduation cohorts. Rising wage … dispersion is also important for the increase in unemployment, while declining parental income, rising student loan balances and …
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Although labor market "mismatch" often refers to an imbalances in supply and demand across occupations, mismatch within occupations can arise if skill requirements are changing over time, potentially reducing aggregate matching efficiency within the labor market. To test this, we examine changes...
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This paper evaluates the short-term labour market impact of the COVID-19 Containment measures in Germany. We take the … from employment into unemployment in April 2020 were due to the containment measures. In a second approach, we make use of … the unemployment effect coming from the separations margin. In sum, the lockdown measures increased unemployment in the …
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, and Germany, during the coronavirus pandemic (from January 2020 to February 2022). The pandemic has had various adverse …The aim of the article is to clarify the controversies surrounding the relationship between inflation and unemployment … economy, particularly the service sector. A decrease in aggregate supply should cause not only an increase in unemployment but …
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This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....
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-state unemployment by 1.4 percentage points. …
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