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Public employment agency reform, matching efficiency, and German unemployment
Merkl, Christian; Sauerbier, Timo - 2022
restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013454807
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Hartz IV and the decline of German unemployment : a macroeconomic evaluation
Hochmuth, Brigitte; Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian; … - 2019
This paper proposes a new approach to evaluate the macroeconomic effects of the Hartz IV reform in Germany, which … reform initiates both a partial effect and an equilibrium effect. The relative importance of these two effects and the size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997295
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Macroeconomic volatilities and the labor market : first results from the euro experiment
Merkl, Christian; Schmitz, Tom - 2010
This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and output volatility. The eurozone offers an unprecedented experiment for this exercise: since 1999, no national monetary policies have been implemented that could account for volatility differences across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003961662