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The Crisis, Policy Reactions and Attitudes to Globalization and Jobs

Bell, David N.F. - 2011

We consider the effects of the financial crisis and subsequent recession on world labour markets. It begins by …

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Productivity and Size of the Export Market : Evidence for West and East German Plants, 2004

Wagner, Joachim - 2021

first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading … actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It documents that firms that export to countries inside the euro-zone are … more productive than firms that sell their products in Germany only, but less productive than firms that export to …

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Misclassification-Errors-Adjusted Sahm Rule for Early Identification of Economic Recession

Feng, Shuaizhang - 2020

Accurate identification of economic recessions in a timely fashion is a major macroeconomic challenge. The most successful early detector of recessions, the Sahm rule, relies on changes in unemployment rates, and is thus subject to measurement errors in the U.S. labor force statuses based on...

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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 Recession. Average real wages are found to be acyclical, but this reflects, in large part, the effect of changes in the composition of the labour force related to unemployment...

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Temporary Agency Work and the Great Recession

Baumgarten, Daniel - 2016

We investigate with German data how the use of temporary agency work has helped establishments to manage the economic and financial crisis in 2008/09. We examine the (regular) workforce development, use of short-time work, and business performance of establishments that made differential use of...

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Macroeconomic Volatilities and the Labor Market : First Results from the Euro Experiment

Merkl, Christian - 2010

This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and output volatility. The eurozone offers an unprecedented experiment for this exercise: since 1999, no national monetary policies have been implemented that could account for volatility differences across...

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Automatic Stabilizers, Economic Crisis and Income Distribution in Europe

Dolls, Mathias - 2010

This paper investigates to what extent the tax and transfer systems in Europe protect households at different income levels against losses in current income caused by economic downturns like the present financial crisis. We use a multi country micro simulation model to analyse how shocks on...

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Do Firms Demand Temporary Workers When They Face Workload Fluctuation? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence on the Conditioning Effect of Employment Protection

Dräger, Vanessa - 2012

Although the negative economic effects of temporary employment are widely discussed, cross-country research on firms' demand for temporary employment is rare. National studies indicate that workload fluctuations are one major motive for firms to employ temporary workers. By studying a novel data...

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The Effect of Economic Downturns on Apprenticeships and Initial Workplace Training : A Review of the Evidence

Brunello, Giorgio - 2009

The existing empirical evidence on the relationship between apprenticeships, initial workplace training and economic downturns, is relatively scarce. The bottom line of this literature is that ratio of apprentices to employees tends to be (mildly) pro-cyclical and to decline during a recession,...

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Global Macro-Financial Cycles and Spillovers

Ha, Jongrim - 2020

We develop a new dynamic factor model that allows us to jointly characterize global macroeconomic and financial cycles and the spillovers between them. The model decomposes macroeconomic cycles into the part driven by global and country-specific macro factors and the part driven by spillovers...

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