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The valuation of changes in commuting distances : an analysis using georeferenced data
Dauth, Wolfgang; Haller, Peter - 2016
We analyze the causal effect of commuting on wages, using a large sample of German job changers. Information on their home and workplace addresses in combination with road navigation software allows us to calculate exact door-to-door commuting distances with an unprecedented degree of precision....
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Gender-specific application behavior, matching, and the residual gender earnings gap
Lochner, Benjamin; Merkl, Christian - 2022
not in line with taste-based discrimination, but they can be rationalized by high-wage firms that ask for more employer …
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Business cycle asymmetries and the labor market
Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2016
density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …
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Business cycle asymmetries and the labor market
Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2022
This paper shows that a search and matching model with idiosyncratic training cost shocks can explain the asymmetric movement of the job-finding rate over the business cycle and the decline of matching efficiency in recessions. Large negative aggregate shocks move the hiring cutoff into a part...
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Revisiting the matching function
Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian; Nordmeier, Daniela - 2014
these two features combined generate an equilibrium comovement between matches on the one hand and unemployment and …
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Do startups provide employment opportunities for disadvantaged workers?
Fackler, Daniel; Fuchs, Michaela; Hölscher, Lisa; … - 2018
instable employment biographies, come from unemployment or outside the labor force, or were affected by a plant closure …
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Job mobility and assortative matching
Braunschweig, Luisa; Dauth, Wolfgang; Roth, Duncan - 2024
We examine the development of worker-firm matching over the career due to job mobility. Using administrative employer …
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Wage cyclicalities and labor market dynamics at the establishment level: Theory and evidence
Merkl, Christian; Stüber, Heiko - 2016
This paper analyzes the effects of different wage cyclicalities on labor market flow dynamics at the establishment level. We derive a model that allows for heterogeneous wage cyclicalities across firms over the business cycle and confront the theoretical results with the new AWFP dataset, which...
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Value added, wages, and labor market flows at the establishment level
Merkl, Christian; Stüber, Heiko - 2017
In this paper, we analyze the connection between value added, wages, and labor market ows at the establishment level. For this purpose, we first develop a simple model to illustrate the expected comovement of these variables. For the empirical analysis, we link the new German Administrative Wage...
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The effects of productivity and benefits on unemployment: Breaking the link
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2017
quantitative effects of (i) aggregate productivity shocks on unemployment and (ii) unemployment benefits on unemployment. This … model, unemployment benefits affect households' behavior directly, without having to run via the bargained wage. A … effect of benefits on unemployment. Our analysis shows the importance of investigating the effects of policies on the …
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