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income in East Germany. The bias difference in labor market expectations explains part of the East-West German wage gap. …
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income in East Germany. The bias difference in labor market expectations explains part of the East-West German wage gap …
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In the Great Recession most OECD countries used short-time work (publicly subsidized working time reductions) to counteract a steep increase in unemployment. We show that short-time work can actually save jobs. However, there is an important distinction to be made: While the rule-based component...
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Does time-varying business volatility affect the price setting of firms and thus the transmission of monetary policy into the real economy? To address this question, we estimate from the firm-level micro data of the German IFO Business Climate Survey the impact of idiosyncratic volatility on the...
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We analyse the extent to which firm-level uncertainty is affected by aggregate uncertainty. Firm-level uncertainty is constructed from a large and monthly panel dataset of manufacturing firms. We find that aggregate uncertainty has a positive and robust impact on firm-level uncertainty. This...
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We study whether technology gains in sectors related to Information and Communications Technology (ICT) increase productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative price of ICT goods and services in a structural VAR...
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of biased expectations for wage bargaining, vacancy creation, worker flows and labor market policies. Importantly, we … relationship between workers' job separation expectations and wages. Instead, a wage setting process with less frequent wage … the difference between firms' and workers' biases matters for the bargained wage but not the size of biases. …
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of biased expectations for wage bargaining, vacancy creation, worker flows and labor market policies. Importantly, we … relationship between workers’ job separation expectations and wages. Instead, a wage setting process with less frequent wage … the difference between firms’ and workers’ biases matters for the bargained wage but not the size of biases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358405
We study whether technology gains in sectors related to Information and Communications Technology (ICT) increase productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative price of ICT goods and services in a structural VAR...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314751
How does uncertainty affect the costs of raising finance in the bond market and via bank loans? Empirically, this paper finds that heightened uncertainty is accompanied by an increase in corporate bond yields and a decrease in bank lending rates. This finding can be explained with a model that...
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