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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...

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Nickel and Dimed German Style: The Working Poor in Germany

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2009

Using data from the German SOEP, this paper analyses whether there have been (a) any significant changes in poverty rates and poverty intensities before and after the Hartz IV reforms and (b) whether there have been observable changes in the effect of employment in reducing the threat or...

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Nickel and Dimed German Style: The Working Poor in Germany

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009

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Governmental policies to reduce unemployment during recessions: Insights from an ABM

Bauermann, Tom - 2020

the generosity of unemployment benefits (UB) and short-time work. This paper aims to contribute to the theoretical … unemployment benefits and increasing search efforts, b) a fiscal stimulus and c) short-time work. In contrast to other studies that … from the heterogeneity of agents. I find four main results: 1) a) has nearly no effect on unemployment in the short run and …

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Women's Fertility and Employment Decisions under Two Political Systems - Comparing East and West Germany before Reunification

Bredtmann, Julia; Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra - 2009

Over the last decades fertility rates have decreased in most developed countries, while female labour force participation has increased strongly over the same time period. To shed light on the relationship between women's fertility and employment decisions, we analyse their transitions to the...

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When Does It Hurt? The Exchange Rate ""Pain Threshold"" for German Exports

Belke, Ansgar; Goecke, Matthias; Guenther, Martin - 2009

This paper deals with the impact of the $/Euro exchange rate on German exports in the period from 1995Q1 to 2008Q4. Our main aim is to identify pain thresholds for German exporters. We rely on a non-linear model according to which suddenly strong spurts of exports occur when changes of the EXR...

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Labor Market Reforms and Current Account Imbalances - Beggar-thy-Neighbor Policies in a Currency Union?

Baas, Timo; Belke, Ansgar - 2014

Member countries of the European Monetary Union (EMU) initiated wideranging labor market reforms in the last decade. This process is ongoing as countries that are faced with serious labor market imbalances perceive reforms as the fastest way to restore competitiveness within a currency union....

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Labor Market Reforms and Current Account Imbalances - Beggar-thy-Neighbor Policies in a Currency Union?

Baas, Timo; Belke, Ansgar - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2014

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When Does It Hurt? The Exchange Rate "Pain Threshold" for German Exports

Belke, Ansgar; Goecke, Matthias; Guenther, Martin - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009

This paper deals with the impact of the $/Euro exchange rate on German exports in the period from 1995Q1 to 2008Q4. Our main aim is to identify "pain thresholds" for German exporters. We rely on a non-linear model according to which suddenly strong spurts of exports occur when changes of the EXR...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509374

Macroeconomic effects of tariffs shocks: the role of the effective lower bound and the labour market

Jacquinot, Pascal; Lozej, Matija; Pisani, Massimiliano - 2020

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