Unemployment Dynamics in the United States and West Germany: Economic Restructuring, Institutions and Labor Market Processes

The study provides a comparative empirical analysis of the dynamics of unemployment in the United States and West Germany. Based on longitudinal data and recent microeconometric methods, the analysis discusses different explanations for both the higher inflow into as well as the higher outflow from...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Heidelberg Physica-Verlag HD 2003
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2003
Schriftenreihe:Contributions to Economics
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Zusammenfassung:The study provides a comparative empirical analysis of the dynamics of unemployment in the United States and West Germany. Based on longitudinal data and recent microeconometric methods, the analysis discusses different explanations for both the higher inflow into as well as the higher outflow from unemployment common in the United States. Despite cross-national differences in terms of the skill distribution and patterns of economic restructuring across industries and occupations, the study stresses institutional explanations for the observed country differences. Most importantly, more flexible U.S. labor markets contribute to higher labor turnover, resulting in both lower levels of job security, higher vacancy levels in external labor markets, and higher competitiveness of unemployed job seekers. Unemployment insurance, in turn, has only small effects on unemployment duration, yet contributes to smaller scar effects of unemployment among German workers
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 292 p. 61 illus)
ISBN:9783642573347
DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-57334-7

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