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Business cycle asymmetries and the labor market
Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2016 - First version: April 2015. This version: February 2016
density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444082
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455340
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Business cycle asymmetries and the labor market
Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2016 - This Version: February 2016
density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447126
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013185150
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They are even larger!: More (on) puzzling labor market volatilities
Gartner, Hermann; Merkl, Christian; Rothe, Thomas - 2009
Wir zeigen empirisch, dass die konjunkturellen Schwankungen am Arbeitsmarkt in Deutschland höher sind als in den USA. Insbesondere ist die Volatilität von Arbeitsmarktvariablen (etwa der Vakanzen, der Arbeitsmarktanspannung oder der Wahrscheinlichkeit Arbeit zu finden) im Verhältnis zur...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277959
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East German unemployment: the myth of the irrelevant labor market
Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2008
This paper indicates that East Germany's unemployment originates primarily in the labor market, caused by the fast wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277978
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East German unemployment : the myth of the irrelevant labor market
Merkl, Christian (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper indicates that East Germany's unemployment originates primarily in the labor market, caused by the fast wage … traps. -- Unemployment ; labor market trap ; East Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003732134
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Macroeconomic volatilities and the labor market : first results from the euro experiment
Merkl, Christian; Schmitz, Tom - 2010
. We use a New Keynesian model with unemployment to predict the effects of different labor market institutions on …This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and output volatility. The eurozone … theory. While labor market institutions have a large effect on output volatility, they do not seem to have much of an effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003961662
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The inflation-output tradeoff : which type of labor market rigidity is to be blamed?
Merkl, Christian - 2009
real wage rigidities. -- Monetary policy ; real wage rigidity ; labor turnover costs ; unemployment ; tradeoff …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003826554
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Macroeconomic volatilities and the labor market : first results from the euro experiment
Merkl, Christian; Schmitz, Tom - 2009
. We use a New Keynesian model with unemployment to predict the effects of different labor market institutions on …This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and output volatility. The eurozone …, but stands in stark contrast to the search and matching model. While labor market institutions have a large effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003827228