Topics for Presentations

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Topics for Presentations
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Topics Overview

• How did different economies deal with the crisis
  ?
• A Comparison of Labor Costs in Europe
• A Comparison of the Low Wage Sector in Germany
  and Denmark
• Inequality of Wages and Profits
• Employment Effects of Minimum Wages

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Dealing with the Crisis

• Comparison of Measures to keep unemployment as
  low as possible during the present crisis
• Stimulus packages
• Shorter Working Hours
• (Longer Unemployment Benefits)
• Source OECD Employment Outlook,OECD Economic
  Outlook

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Comparison of Labor Costs

• Concepts
• Measurement
• International Comparison
• Sources EUROSTAT, IMK

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Topics Low Wage Sector

• Low Wage Sector in Germany
• Gerhard Bosch and Claudia Weinkopf (ed.) Low
  Wage Work in Germany, The Russel Sage
  Foundation,Case Studies of Job Quality in
  Advanced Economies,New York 2008, Chapter 1 (4)
  and Chapter 4 (5)
• Low Wage Sector in Denmark
• Westergaard-Nielsen(ed.) Low Wage Work in
  Denmark, The Russel Sage Foundation,Case Studies
  of Job Quality in Advanced Economies,New York
  2008 , Chapter 1 (6) and Chapter 6 (7)

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Inequality of Wages and Profits

• Measurement
• Empirical Facts
• Causes
• Consequences
• Sources IMF,OECD

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Employment Effects of Minimum Wages

• The Example of the USA)
• The Example of France
• The Example of the UK
• What do German Studies Tell ?
• Sources Different Academic Papers

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• Your Ideas ?

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What do I expect ?

• A Survey of relevant literature
• A consistent and well founded own assessment
• 10- 15 pages
• Presentations

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Communication

• Basically virtual
• My e-mail gustav-horn_at_boeckler.de
• Your e-mail ?
• Question time Mail your mails until Tuesday
  evening and you get answers Wednesday morning

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