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The Fall in German Unemployment: A Flow Analysis

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Launov, Andrey; Robin, Jean-Marc - 2018

In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work, labour market … participation, inequality and welfare in Germany. Unemployment fell because the Hartz IV reform induced a large fraction of the long …. Overall we find that Germany increased welfare as unemployment fell. …

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When Short-Time Work Works

Cahuc, Pierre; Kramarz, Francis; Nevoux, Sandra - 2018

Short-time work programs were revived by the Great Recession. To understand their operating mechanisms, we first provide a model showing that short-time work may save jobs in firms hit by strong negative revenue shocks, but not in less severely-hit firms, where hours worked are reduced, without...

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On the Efficiency of Job Search with Social Networks

Cahuc, Pierre; Fontaine, François - 2002

of different job search methods, conditional unemployment benefits hikes can improve welfare when individuals are risk …

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Is short-time work a good method to keep unemployment down?

Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane - 2011

2008-2009 crisis. This paper discusses the efficiency of this type of policy and investigates its impact on unemployment … unemployment during downturns. All in all, it seems that short-time work programs used in the recent downturn had significant …

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Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation over the Business Cycle

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo - 2020

unemployment and its duration distribution. Using the SIPP, we document the relation between workers' (gross and net) occupational … mobility and unemployment duration over the long run and business cycle. To interpret this evidence, we develop an analytically … countercyclical net occupational mobility, the large volatility of unemployment and the cyclical properties of the unemployment …

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Cyclical Earnings, Career and Employment Transitions

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo; Wiczer, David - 2022

This paper studies the cyclical behaviour of earnings risk and career changes. We document that the procyclical skewness of the earnings growth distribution arises mostly from the earnings changes of employer and occupation switchers. To uncover their relative importance in driving cyclical...

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Unemployment and endogenous reallocation over the business cycle

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo - 2013

We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous … countercyclical unemployment, and is simultaneously consistent with procyclical reallocation, countercyclical separations and a … negatively-sloped Beveridge curve. Moreover, the model exhibits unemployment duration dependence, which (when calibrated to long …

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Is Short-Time Work a Good Method to Keep Unemployment Down?

Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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The roots of low European employment: family culture?

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - 2005

OECD countries faced largely divergent employment rates during the last decades. But the whole bulk of the cross-national and cross-temporal heterogeneity relies on specific demographic groups: prime-age women and younger and older individuals. This paper argues that family labor supply...

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Macroeconometric Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies in Germany - A Dynamic Panel Approach Using Regional Data

Zeiss, Christopher; Caliendo, Marco; Blien, Uwe; Hujer, … - 2002

Most evaluation studies of active labour market policies (ALMP) focus on the microeconometric evaluation approach using individual data. However, as the microeconometric approach usually ignores impacts on the non-participants, it should be seen as a first step to a complete evaluation which has...

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