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Exchange rate volatility effects on the German labour market : a survey of recent results and extensions
Buscher, Herbert S.; Mueller, Claudia - 1999
In this paper, a survey on theoretically expected and empirically proved impacts of exchange rate volatility is given …. With regard to the West German unemployment, the effects of volatility are empirically analysed using three different … volatility measures and four country groups. In autoregressive models, a significant disturbing impact of volatility can be found …
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Testing for asymmetry in British, German and US unemployment data
Kohns, Stephan - 2001
Not only the level of aggregate unemployment but also the properties of its dynamics are an important topic in macroeconomics and labor economics. Several models like e.g. matching models with endogenous job destruction explicitly predict an asymmetric pattern in the evolution of unemployment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403213
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916540
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Countercyclical recruiting rates and the value of jobs
Yashiv, Eran - 2015
productivity and the forward-looking concept of job value. The paper explains the high volatility of firm recruiting behavior, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346601
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Worker flows and labour market adjustment during the Great Recession : evidence from a large shock
Lehmann, Hartmut; Razzolini, Tiziano; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2015
This paper analyzes how the labor market adjusts to the Great Recession. To this aim, we use the data for Latvia, a country that has experienced one of the most severe recessions in Europe and a subsequent remarkable recovery. Employing longitudinal EU SILC data and a panel data set constructed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011427677
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Fewer jobs or smaller paychecks? : aggregate crisis impacts in selected middle-income countries
Khanna, Gaurav; Newhouse, David Locke; Paci, Pierella - 2011
This paper reviews evidence from 44 middle income countries on how the recent financial crisis affected jobs and workers' income. In addition to providing a rare assessment of the magnitude of the impact across several middle-income countries, the paper describes how labor markets adjusted and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009408899
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Employment adjustment and part-time jobs : the U.S. and the U.K. in the Great Recession
Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Lalé, Etienne - 2016
We document that fluctuations in part-time employment play a major role in movements in hours per worker, especially during cyclical swings in the labor market. Building on this result, we propose a novel representation of the intensive margin based on a stock-flow framework. The evolution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455784
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The crisis, policy reactions and attitudes to globalization and jobs
Bell, David N. F.; Blanchflower, David G. - 2011
We consider the effects of the financial crisis and subsequent recession on world labour markets. It begins by cataloguing the adverse effects on output of the sudden collapse in demand brought about by the financial crisis in what has come to be called the Great Recession. Next we look at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009296355
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Labor market effects of unemployment insurance design
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Ours, Jan C. van - 2012
With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate. In this paper, we review the recent theoretical and empirical evidence on the labor market effects of UI design. We also discuss policy issues related to UI design, including...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009656641
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How immigrants helped EU labor markets to adjust during the Great Recession
Kahanec, Martin; Guzi, Martin - 2016
The economic literature starting with Borjas (2001) suggests that immigrants are more flexible than natives in responding to changing sectoral, occupational, and spatial shortages in the labor market. In this paper, we study the relative responsiveness to labor shortages by immigrants from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595845