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Adjusting Labor Along The Intensive Margins
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Biddle, Jeff - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We expand the analysis of cyclical changes in labor demand by decomposing changes along the intensive margin into those in days/week and in hours/day. Using large cross sections of U.S. data, 1985-2018, we observe around 1/4 of the adjustment in weekly hours occurring through changing days/week....
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Adjusting labor along the intensive margins
Biddle, Jeff; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2024
We expand the analysis of cyclical changes in labor demand by decomposing changes along the intensive margin into those in days/week and in hours/day. Using large cross sections of U.S. data, 1985-2018, we observe around ¼ of the adjustment in weekly hours occurring through changing days/week....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014584359
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Not working at work : loafing, unemployment and labor productivity
Burda, Michael C.; Genadek, Katie R.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015
-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While the average time spent by workers in non …-work conditional on any positive non-work rises with the unemployment rate, the fraction of workers who report time in non-work varies … amounts of non-work with wage rates and measures of unemployment benefits in state data linked to the ATUS, and it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280688
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Not working at work : loafing, unemployment and labor productivity
Burda, Michael C.; Genadek, Katie; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015
-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While the average time spent by workers in non …-work conditional on any positive non-work rises with the unemployment rate, the fraction of workers who report time in non-work varies … amounts of non-work with wage rates and measures of unemployment benefits in state data linked to the ATUS, and it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011296782
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Not Working at Work : Loafing, Unemployment and Labor Productivity
Burda, Michael C. - 2015
-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While the average time spent by workers in non …-work conditional on any positive non-work rises with the unemployment rate, the fraction of workers who report time in non-work varies … amounts of non-work with wage rates and measures of unemployment benefits in state data linked to the ATUS, and it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016402
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Does short-time work save jobs? : a business cycle analysis
Balleer, Almut; Gehrke, Britta; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; … - 2013
unemployment and output fluctuations. The central question is whether the rule based component (i.e., the existence of the … our baseline scenario the rule based component stabilizes unemployment fluctuations by 15% and output fluctuations by 7 … significant effect on unemployment. These effects are based on a structural VAR estimation which is identified using the output …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009722505
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Does short-time work save jobs? : a business cycle analysis
Balleer, Almut; Gehrke, Britta; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; … - 2013
counteract a steep increase in unemployment. We show that short-time work can actually save jobs. However, there is an important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009763124
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Expansionary and contractionary technology improvements : conference paper
Balleer, Almut; Enders, Zeno - 2013 - Preliminary and incomplete
This paper examines the effects of expansionary technology shocks (shocks that increase labor productivity and factor inputs) as opposed to contractionary technology shocks (shocks that increase labor productivity, but decrease factor inputs). We estimate these two shocks jointly based on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336790
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Does short-time work save jobs? : a business cycle analysis
Balleer, Almut; Gehrke, Britta; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; … - 2014
counteract a steep increase in unemployment. We show that short-time work can actually save jobs. However, there is an important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010249718
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Some surprising facts about working time accounts and the business cycle
Balleer, Almut; Gehrke, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2014
driver of the unusually small increase in German unemployment in the Great Recession. One possible explanation is that firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010402264