Garz, Marcel - Institut für Makroökonomie und Konjunkturforschung … - 2010
unemployment (NAIRU) is used. In a first step, the unobservable, exogenous NAIRU is estimated for Germany in a state space setting … the low-pay sector. Finally, by treating the NAIRU as the dependent variable, the impact of the low-wage share is … relationship between the NAIRU and the share of the low-wage sector. This hypothesis is rejected empirically. Indeed, for the time …