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Labour market dynamics in Germany : hirings, separations, and job-to-job transitions over the business cycle
Bachmann, Ronald (contributor) - 2005
increased flow into unemployment in a recession is mainly due to reduced hirings, and hence lower job-to-job transitions, rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323028
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The German labor market miracle, 2003-2015 : an assessment
Burda, Michael C. - 2016
This paper reviews the dramatic and widely noted developments in the German labor market in the past decade and surveys the most plausible reasons for these changes. Alternative hypotheses are compared and contrasted. I argue that the labor market reforms associated with the Agenda 2010 – the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437903
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No role for the Hartz reforms? : demand and supply factors in the German labor market, 1993-2014
Burda, Michael C.; Seele, Stefanie - 2016
The supply and demand framework of Katz and Murphy (1992) provides new evidence on the source of changes in socially insured full-time and part-time employment in years preceding and following the implementation of the landmark Hartz reforms in Germany. Our findings are consistent with a stable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437993
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The importance of two-sided heterogeneity for the cyclicality of labour market dynamics
Bachmann, Ronald; David, Peggy - 2009
Using two data sets derived from German administrative data, including a linked employer-employee data set, we investigate the cyclicality of worker and job flows. The analysis stresses the importance of two-sided labour market heterogeneity in this context, taking into account both observed and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003815242
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Labor supply dynamics, unemployment and human capital investments
Wasmer, Etienne - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001675874
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Disaggregate matching functions
Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001
This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001612738
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Unemployment and search externalities in a model with heterogeneous jobs and heterogeneous workers
Gautier, Pieter - 1999 - This version: June, 25, 1999
The continuing deterioration of the position of low skilled workers in the beginning of the 90's in essentially all industrialized countries is one of the most debated issues in both labor and macro-economics. In this paper a matching model with low and high skilled workers and simple and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011302133
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Is a minimum wage an appropriate instrument for redistribution?
Gerritsen, Aart; Jacobs, Bas - 2016
minimum-wage increase raises involuntary unemployment, but also raises skill formation as some individuals avoid unemployment … skill formation outweigh both the public revenue losses from additional unemployment and the utility losses of inefficient … the revenue losses from higher unemployment. We write this condition in terms of measurable sufficient statistics. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011563071
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An experimental investigation of wage taxation and unemployment in closed and open economies
Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2000
We investigate experimentally the economic effects of wage taxation to finance unemployment benefits for a closed … the dynamic interaction between the wage tax and unemployment. (ii) Employment is boosted by budget deficits but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011304623
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Time-varying degree of wage indexation and the New Keynesian Wage Phillips Curve
Attey, Jonathan A. - 2016
Cost-of-Living-Adjustment (COLA) coverage figures suggest a time variation in the degree of wage indexation. In spite of this observation, most current literature conveniently assume a constant degree of indexation as this variable is not directly observable. This study intends to empirically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011563079