Germany : Selected Issues.

This Selected Issues paper analyzes labor market asymmetries and macroeconomic adjustment in Germany. Empirical work reported shows that in Germany, negative demand shocks increase the unemployment rate by more than the decrease in the unemployment rate caused by a comparable-sized positive demand s...

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Korporacja: International Monetary Fund
Format: Czasopismo
Język:English
Wydane: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1997.
Seria:IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ; No. 1997/101
Dostęp online:Full text available on IMF
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