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Biased Expectations and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from German Survey Data and Implications for the East-West Wage Gap

Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2023

income in East Germany. The bias difference in labor market expectations explains part of the East-West German wage gap. …

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Biased Expectations and Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from German Survey Data and Implications for the East-West Wage Gap

Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2023

income in East Germany. The bias difference in labor market expectations explains part of the East-West German wage gap …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358858

Does Short-Time Work Save Jobs? A Business Cycle Analysis

Balleer, Almut; Gehrke, Britta; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; … - 2014

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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Labour market institutions and the employment intensity of output growth: an international comparison

Flaig, Gebhard; Rottmann, Horst - 2007

employment protection raises the employment threshold in all econometric specifications. A higher wage bargaining coordination …

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Labour market institutions and unemployment: An international comparison

Flaig, Gebhard; Rottmann, Horst - 2011

wage negotiations decreases unemployment. The strength of the effects differs considerably between countries. …

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Unemployment in the Euro Area and Unconventional Monetary Policy Surprises

Hülsewig, Oliver; Rottmann, Horst - 2022

We examine the impact of the European Central Bank's monetary policy on the euro area labor markets over the period 2010-2018. Using Jordà's (2005) local projection method, we find that unemployment rates decline in response to expansionary monetary policy surprises that can be related to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470349

Wage Bargaining and Labor Market Policy with Biased Expectations

Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2023

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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Do Labor Market Institutions Influence Suicide Mortality? An International Panel Data Analysis

Breuer, Christian; Rottmann, Horst - 2014

We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period 1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with a large body of literature our results suggest that...

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Wage Bargaining and Labor Market Policy with Biased Expectations

Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2023

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

Unemployment in the Euro Area and Unconventional Monetary Policy Surprises

Hülsewig, Oliver; Rottmann, Horst - 2022

We examine the impact of the European Central Bank’s monetary policy on the euro area labor markets over the period 2010-2018. Using Jordà’s (2005) local projection method, we find that unemployment rates decline in response to expansionary monetary policy surprises that can be related to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241612