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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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Volatility and growth : governments are key
Jetter, Michael - 2013
paper offers a solution to this disagreement, suggesting that volatility carries a positive direct effect, but also a … volatility is then ambiguous. The paper reveals the underlying endogeneity of government size in a balanced panel of 95 countries … increase of volatility lowers growth by up to 0.57 percentage points in a democracy, but raises growth by 1.74 percentage …
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Why is old workers' labor market more volatile? : unemployment fluctuations over the life-cycle
Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François; Sopraseuth, … - 2014
Since the last recession, it is usually argued that older workers are less affected by the economic downturn because their unemployment rate rose less than the one of prime-age workers. This view is a myth: older workers are more sensitive to the business cycle. We document volatilities of...
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Government deficit shocks and Okun's coefficient volatility : new insights on the austerity versus growth debate
Binh Thai Pham; Sala, Hector - 2019
This paper connects two salient economic features: (i) Fiscal shocks have asymmetric effects across business cycle phases (Gechert et al., 2019); (ii) Okun's coefficient is time varying and may be unstable. The intertwined dynamic behavior of fiscal shocks and unemployment-output trade-offs are...
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The vanishing procyclicality of labor productivity
Galí, Jordi; Rens, Thijs van - 2010
vanished, (ii) the relative volatility of employment has risen, and (iii) the relative (and absolute) volatility of the real … observed decline in output volatility. -- labor hoarding ; labor market frictions ; wage rigidities ; effort choice …
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Public wages, public employment, and business cycle volatility : evidence from U.S. metro areas
Boeing-Reicher, Claire A.; Caponi, Vincenzo - 2016
business cycle volatility, hinting at a stabilizing effect of public employment, while public wages correlate weakly and … positively with business cycle volatility, hinting at a destabilizing effect of public wages. To explain these relationships, we …
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Long live the vacancy
Häfke, Christian; Reiter, Michael - 2020
We reassess the role of vacancies in a Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides style search and matching model. In the absence of free entry long lived vacancies and endogenous separations give rise to a vacancy depletion channel which we identify via joint unemployment and vacancy dynamics. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012288522
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Business cycles, unemployment and entrepreneurial entry : evidence from Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Pijnenburg, Katharina - 2013
what extent business cycles or unemployment levels influence entries into entrepreneurship. Our analysis for Germany …
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Smoking and the business cycle : evidence from Germany
Kaiser, Micha; Reutter, Mirjam; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; … - 2017
In this paper, we use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel to investigate the effect on cigarette consumption of macro-economic conditions in the form of regional unemployment rates. The results from our panel data models, several of which control for selection bias, indicate that the...
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Counteracting unemployment in crises : non-linear effects of short-time work policy
Gehrke, Britta; Hochmuth, Brigitte - 2018
Short-time work is a labor market policy that subsidizes working time reductions among firms in financial difficulty to prevent layoffs. Many OECD countries have used this policy in the Great Recession. This paper shows that the effects of short-time work are strongly time dependent and...
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