Ein namhafter Aufschwung der deutschen Wirtschaft findet im Jahr 2023 nicht statt. Das reale Bruttoinlandsprodukt wird zwar nach der Winterpause im Jahresverlauf wieder zulegen. Das Konjunkturtempo wird zum Jahresende jedoch wieder nachlassen, wenngleich eine erneute Winterrezession derzeit...

Die Entwicklung der Weltwirtschaft und der Inflation bestimmen die konjunkturellen Rahmenbedingungen für die deutsche Wirtschaft und damit gleichzeitig die Risiken. Die Aussichten für die Weltkonjunktur bleiben aufgrund der instabilen geopolitischen Lage, der restriktiven Geldpolitik und der...

We exploit homogeneous firm level data of manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors to study the impact of firing restrictions on job flow dynamics across 14 European countries. We find that more stringent firing laws dampen the response of job destruction to the cycle, thus making job...

This paper extends previous work on the identification of search models in which observed worker productivity is imperfectly observed. In particular, it establishes that these models remain identified even when employment histories are left-censored (i.e. we do not get to follow workers from...

This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, labor market tightness, and job vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor...

Substantial immigrant segregation in the United States, combined with the increase in the share of the U.S. foreign-born population, have led to great interest in the causes and consequences of immigrant concentration, including those related to the functioning of labor markets. This paper...