Verursacht durch schlechte Nachrichten auf vielen Gebieten leiden die Menschen in Deutschlandunter anhaltenden Unsicherheiten. Viele fragen sich: Was wird die Zukunft bringen? Wieschlecht soll es noch werden? Was kommt vielleicht bezüglich dessen auf uns zu? DiesenFragen ist ein Seminar dreier...

Estimating the response of hours worked to technology shocks is often considered as a crucial step for evaluating the applicability of macroeconomic models to reality. In particular, Galí [1999] has considered the conditional correlation between employment and productivity as a key tool for...

Der vorliegende Text analysiert die Funktionsweise von Strategischen Allianzen im Zusammenhangvon „Strategie“ und „operativer Umsetzung“. Hintergrund ist eine oftmals strategielastigeDebatte und die Vernachlässigung operativer Aspekte in der Kooperationsliteratur...

In this paper, we explore empirically the role of openness, technology and labour market rigidity in the determination of the effect of the exchange rate on employment in Portugal. We develop an index that allows us to measure labour market flexibility at the sector level. This index shows that...

We study the effects of technology shocks on labor market dynamics. We provide evidence that a positive technology shock leads to a weak response in nominal wage inflation, a modest decline in price inflation, and a modest rise in the real wage on impact and a permanent rise in the long run. The...

The impact of economic geography both within and beyond the wider field of geography has been constrained in the past by its own limitations. Drawing together the work of several eminent geographers this superb collection assesses the current state of knowledge in the sub discipline and its...

Can the standard search-and-matching labor market model replicate the business cycle fluctuations of the job finding rate and the unemployment rate? In the odel, these fluctuations are driven by movements in productivity. This paper inestigates the sources of productivity fluctuations that are...