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density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …
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Some workers bargain with prospective employers before accepting a job. Others could bargain, but find it undesirable, because their right to bargain has induced a sufficiently favorable offer, which they accept. Yet others perceive that they cannot bargain over pay; they regard the posted wage...
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. We use a New Keynesian model with unemployment to predict the effects of different labor market institutions on …This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and output volatility. The eurozone … theory. While labor market institutions have a large effect on output volatility, they do not seem to have much of an effect …
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institutions (short-time work, government spending rules) and shocks (aggregate, labor market, and policy shocks) and to perform …
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Using the new AWFP dataset that covers all German establishments, we document a substantial cross-sectional heterogeneity of establishments' average real wages over the business cycle. While the median establishments' real wages are procyclical, there is a large fraction of establishments with...
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This paper analyzes the role of the extensive vis-à-vis the intensive margin of labor adjustment in Germany and in the United States. The contribution is twofold. First, we provide an update of older US studies and confirm the view that the extensive margin (i.e., the adjustment in the number...
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empirical regularities that the conventional matching model cannot. -- Matching ; incentives ; adjustment costs ; unemployment …
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German labor market volatilities by a longer expected job duration. -- Labor market volatilities ; unemployment ; worker …
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predictions of the model change very little, but the welfare costs of unemployment are much larger because unemployment risk is … distributed unequally across workers. As a result, optimal unemployment insurance may be higher and welfare is lower if hiring is … selective. -- labor market models ; welfare ; optimal unemployment insurance …
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counteract a steep increase in unemployment. We show that short-time work can actually save jobs. However, there is an important …
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