The paper analyzes why Germany experiences the high and sticky unemployment. It looks at wage policy and proposes a new approach to measure productivity growth when unemployment increases. It studies the position of trade unions and the institutional set-up of the labor market. It looks at the role of the reservation wage for the lower segment of the labor market and discusses the impact of contributions to social security on the demand for labor.Unemployment, institutional arrangement, reservation wage, social security
'The study surveys the development of the East German labor market after the unification of Germany....
This paper offers a narrative historical description of the German Social Market Economy, from its i...
'This paper studies the reservation wages of unemployed persons and the wages offered them in German...
'The paper analyzes why Germany experiences the high and sticky unemployment. It looks at wage polic...
This paper studies a labor market where workers search for both more productive and more secure empl...
The sustained rise in German unemployment since 1973 poses a problem of critical importance for the ...
Persistently high unemployment is still the most urgent problem confronting policymakers in many con...
This paper overviews labor market analyses presented in the annual reports of the German Council of...
This paper indicates that East Germany's unemployment problem originates primarily in the labor mark...
This paper indicates that East Germany’s unemployment originates primarily in the labor market, caus...
The paper investigates the thesis that unemployment in the Federal Republic of Germany is “mostly st...
This paper uses micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel to document that the wage structure ...
The paper is discussing German social policy with an emphasis on labour market policy. The topic is ...
Due to the fact that the unemployment rate of high skilled labour in Germany is about 3% in the last...
This paper addresses, within a structural matching model with heterogeneous risk-averse agents, whet...
'The study surveys the development of the East German labor market after the unification of Germany....
This paper offers a narrative historical description of the German Social Market Economy, from its i...
'This paper studies the reservation wages of unemployed persons and the wages offered them in German...
'The paper analyzes why Germany experiences the high and sticky unemployment. It looks at wage polic...
This paper studies a labor market where workers search for both more productive and more secure empl...
The sustained rise in German unemployment since 1973 poses a problem of critical importance for the ...
Persistently high unemployment is still the most urgent problem confronting policymakers in many con...
This paper overviews labor market analyses presented in the annual reports of the German Council of...
This paper indicates that East Germany's unemployment problem originates primarily in the labor mark...
This paper indicates that East Germany’s unemployment originates primarily in the labor market, caus...
The paper investigates the thesis that unemployment in the Federal Republic of Germany is “mostly st...
This paper uses micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel to document that the wage structure ...
The paper is discussing German social policy with an emphasis on labour market policy. The topic is ...
Due to the fact that the unemployment rate of high skilled labour in Germany is about 3% in the last...
This paper addresses, within a structural matching model with heterogeneous risk-averse agents, whet...
'The study surveys the development of the East German labor market after the unification of Germany....
This paper offers a narrative historical description of the German Social Market Economy, from its i...
'This paper studies the reservation wages of unemployed persons and the wages offered them in German...