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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 … theory. While labor market institutions have a large effect on output volatility, they do not seem to have much of an effect … and inflation volatility ; labor turnover costs ; unemployment benefits ; unemployment ; eurozone …

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Time aggregation and state dependence in welfare receipt

Bhuller, Manudeep; Brinch, Christian; Königs, Sebastian - 2016

Dynamic discrete-choice models are an important tool in studies of state dependence in benefit receipt. A common assumption of such models is that benefit receipt sequences follow a conditional Markov process. This property has implications for how estimated period-to-period benefit transition...

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Worker identity, employment fluctuations and stabilization policy

Snower, Dennis J.; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2013

This paper provides a model of "social hysteresis" whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain work fall and consequently their employment chances...

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Real wage cyclicality in the Eurozone before and during the Great Recession : evidence from micro data

Verdugo, Gregory - 2015

We study the response of real wages to the business cycle in eight major Eurozone countries before and during the Great …

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Instability of the Eurozone? : On monetary policy, house prices and labor market reforms

Belke, Ansgar (contributor); Gros, Daniel (contributor) - 2007

"This paper deals with potential instabilities in the Eurozone stemming from an insufficient interplay between monetary …

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Asymmetric labor market institutions in the EMU and the volatility of inflation and unemployment differentials

Abbritti, Mirko; Müller, Andreas - 2012

How does the asymmetry of labor market institutions affect the adjustment of a currency union to shocks? To answer this question, this paper sets up a dynamic currency union model with monopolistic competition and sticky prices, hiring frictions and real wage rigidities. In our analysis, we...

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Fiscal multipliers in the COVID-19 recession

Auerbach, Alan J.; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; McCrory, Peter B. - 2021

In response to the record-breaking COVID19 recession, many governments have adopted unprecedented fiscal stimuli. While countercyclical fiscal policy is effective in fighting conventional recessions, little is known about the effectiveness of fiscal policy in the current environment with...

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The recovery from the Great Recession: a long, evolving expansion

Shambaugh, Jay C.; Strain, Michael R. - 2021

Prior to 2020, the Great Recession was the most important macroeconomic shock to the United States economy in generations. Millions lost jobs and homes. At its peak, one in ten workers who wanted a job could not find one. On an annual basis, the economy contracted by more than it had since the...

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Automatic stabilizers and economic crisis : US vs. Europe

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2009

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the tax and transfer systems in the European Union and the US to act as an automatic stabilizer in the current economic crisis. We find that automatic stabilizers absorb 38 per cent of a proportional income shock in the EU, compared to 32 per cent in the...

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Real wages and the business cycles in Germany

Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas - 2010

This paper establishes stylized facts about the cyclicality of real consumer wages and real producer wages in Germany. As detrending methods we apply the deterministic trend model, the Beveridge-Nelson decomposition, the Hodrick-Prescott filter, the Baxter-King filter and the structural time...

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