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Business cycle asymmetries and the labor market

Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2016

This paper shows that the matching function and the Beveridge curve in the United States exhibit strong nonlinearities over the business cycle. These patterns can be replicated by enhancing a search and matching model with idiosyncratic productivity shocks for new contacts. Large negative...

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Etiopathology of Europe's sick man : worker flows in Germany, 1959-2016

Hartung, Benjamin; Jung, Philip; Kuhn, Moritz - 2016

We provide new estimates on worker flow rates in and out of unemployment for Germany covering the last six decades. In … the 1980s, Germany emerged as the sick man of Europe with a labor market characterized by persistently high unemployment … the 1960s. Germany's recovery started in the mid-2000s after the Hartz reforms, when inflow rates persistently decreased …

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The effect of the Hartz labor market reforms on post-unemployment wages, sorting, and matching

Woodcock, Simon D. - 2020

We use linked longitudinal data on employers and employees to estimate how the 2003-2005 Hartz reforms affected the wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage effects into components attributable to selection on...

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Occupational routine-intensity and the costs of job loss : evidence from mass layoffs

Blien, Uwe; Dauth, Wolfgang; Roth, Duncan - 2019

use worker-level data on mass layoffs in Germany between 1980 and 2010 and provide causal evidence that workers who used …

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Life satisfaction of employees, labour market tightness and matching efficiency

Pedraza, Pablo de; Guzi, Martin; Tijdens, Kea Gartje - 2020

Di Tella et al. (2001) show that temporary fluctuations in life satisfaction (LS) are correlated with macroeconomic circumstances such as gross domestic product, unemployment, and inflation. In this paper, we bring attention to labour market measures from search and matching models (Pissarides...

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The German labor market during the Great Recession : shocks and institutions

Gehrke, Britta; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian - 2018

This paper analyzes Germany's unusual labor market experience during the Great Recession. We estimate a general … equilibrium model with a detailed labor market block for post-unification Germany. This allows us to disentangle the role of …

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What hides behind the German labor market miracle? : unemployment insurance reforms and labor market dynamics

Hartung, Benjamin; Jung, Philip; Kuhn, Moritz - 2018

A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor market dynamics. We revisit this old question studying the German Hartz reforms. On average, lower separation rates explain 76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact...

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Naturalization and labor market performance of immigrants in Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Saif, Salwan - 2018

study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and …

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Immigrants and unemployment in the European Community : from the eyes of natives

Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002 - November 1999 (revised: May 2002)

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...

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Characteristics of unemployment dynamics : the chain reaction approach

Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000

lagged adjustment processes. In the context of estimated labor market systems for Germany, the UK, and the US, we construct …

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