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The impact of the crisis on employment and the role of labour market institutions
Eichhorst, Werner; Escudero, Verónica; Marx, Paul; … - 2010
economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline in employment and rise in unemployment in … shows that, at least for the time being, unemployment increases have been contained in countries with comparatively strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278707
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The Impact of the Crisis on Employment and the Role of Labour Market Institutions
Eichhorst, Werner; Escudero, Veronica; Marx, Paul; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline in employment and rise in unemployment in … shows that, at least for the time being, unemployment increases have been contained in countries with comparatively strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727778
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931638
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262669
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274716
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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
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008804896
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Non-Standard Employment across Occupations in Germany: The Role of Replaceability and Labour Market Flexibility
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Tobsch, Verena - 2013
The share of non-standard jobs in total employment has increased in Germany over recent decades. Research tends to attribute this in particular to labour market re-forms and socio-economic change. However, it becomes clear upon closer inspection that macro trends alone cannot provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329039
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267603
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Whatever works: Dualisation and the service economy in Bismarckian welfare states
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - 2010
The paper compares employment structures in five Continental welfare states. These countries feature broad similarities in their reliance on a more dualised model of labour market flexibility, particularly in service occupations with low skill requirements. However, a closer look also reveals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269940
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Crisis, what crisis? Patterns of adaptation in European labor markets
Eichhorst, Werner; Feil, Michael; Marx, Paul - 2010
countries have experienced a steep increase in unemployment, employment in other developed economies has not fallen in parallel … with a significant decline in GDP. Our analysis shows that labor market institutions frequently used to study employment … performance can explain the development of unemployment in the situation of crisis in some clusters of countries much better than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269943