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Analyse, Perspektiven und Szenarien der weiteren wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung in Deutschland : Elemente eines "Bündnisses für Arbeit"

Bartsch, Klaus (contributor) - In: WSI-Mitteilungen : Zeitschrift des Wirtschafts- und … 51 (1998) 12, pp. 801-819

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Structural and Cyclical Forces in the Labor Market During the Great Recession : Cross-Country Evidence

Sala, Luca - 2012

price and wage rigidities to study four countries (the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, and Germany) during the financial crisis and … factors were also important in the U.K., but less so in Sweden and Germany. Reduced matching efficiency was considerably less … important in the U.K. and Sweden than in the U.S., but matching efficiency improved in Germany, helping to keep unemployment low …

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The Demand for Youth : Implications for the Hours Volatility Puzzle

Jaimovich, Nir - 2010

The employment and hours worked of young individuals fluctuate much more over the business cycle than those of prime-aged individuals. Understanding the mechanism underlying this observation is key to explaining the volatility of aggregate hours over the cycle. We argue that the joint behavior...

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Slow to Hire, Quick to Fire : Employment Dynamics with Asymmetric Responses to News

Ilut, Cosmin L. - 2020

Concave hiring rules imply that firms respond more to bad shocks than to good shocks. They provide a unified explanation for several seemingly unrelated facts about employment growth in macro and micro data. In particular, they generate countercyclical movement in both aggregate conditional...

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Wage Flexibility and Employment Fluctuations : Evidence from the Housing Sector

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2016

Many economists suspect that downward nominal wage rigidities in ongoing labor contracts are an important source of employment fluctuations over the business cycle but there is little direct empirical evidence on this conjecture. This paper compares three occupations in the housing sector with...

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Weathering the Great Recession : Variation in Employment Responses by Establishments and Countries

Barth, Erling - 2016

This paper finds that US employment changed differently relative to output in the Great Recession and recovery than in most other advanced countries or in the US in earlier recessions. Instead of hoarding labor, US firms reduced employment proportionately more than output in the Great Recession,...

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Spurring Job Creation in Response to Severe Recessions : Reconsidering Hiring Credits

Neumark, David - 2011

The continuing adverse labor market effects of the Great Recession have intensified interest in policy efforts to spur job creation. In periods when labor demand and supply are in balance, either hiring credits or worker subsidies can be used to boost employment - hiring credits by reducing...

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Measuring What Employers Really Do About Entry Wages Over the Business Cycle

Martins, Pedro S. - 2010

In models recently published by several influential macroeconomic theorists, rigidity in the real wages that firms pay newly hired workers plays a crucial role in generating realistically large cyclical fluctuations in unemployment. There is remarkably little evidence, however, on whether...

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Housing Booms and Busts, Labor Market Opportunities, and College Attendance

Charles, Kerwin Kofi - 2015

We study how the recent national housing boom and bust affected college enrollment and attainment during the 2000s. We exploit cross-city variation in local housing booms, and use a variety of data sources and empirical methods, including models that use plausibly exogenous variation in housing...

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Labor Market Polarization Over the Business Cycle

Foote, Christopher L. - 2015

Job losses during the Great Recession were concentrated among middle-skill workers, the same group that over the long run has suffered the most from automation and international trade. How might long-run occupational polarization be related to cyclical changes in middle-skill employment? We find...

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