Im Spätsommer 2022 ist die Weltwirtschaft im Abschwung. Anhaltend hohe Inflationsraten haben die US-Notenbank und viele weitere Zentralbanken veranlasst, mit einer Straffung ihrer Geldpolitik zu beginnen. Zudem ist seit dem Ausbruch des Ukraine-Kriegs Energie knapper und teurer geworden....

Studies on health effects of unemployment usually neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study specifically investigates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the mental health of their spouse. In order to allow for causal interpretation of the estimates, it focuses on plant closure...

The paper empirically examines three possible reasons for the high and rising unemployment of low-skilled employees in Germany: (i) an upsurge in interindustry trade, (ii) a skill-biased technical change, and (iii) a failure of labour market adjustment. The empirical analyses indicate that an...

This study explores a new modelling approach that bridges the gap between multilateral country-level data and the bilateral-model based, goods-market specific purchasing power parity (PPP) hypothesis. Under this approach, PPP is embedded in latent common factors, extractable from a large set of...

The reaction of the German labor market to the Great Recession 2008/09 was relatively mild - especially compared to other countries. The reason lies not only in the specific type of the recession - which was favorable for the German economy structure - but also in a series of labor market...

Germany's labor market responded only mildly to the Great Recession. Important factors for this development include the strong economic position due to recent labor market reforms, the crisis affecting mainly export-oriented companies, the extension of short-time work, time buffers due to...

Der Schaffung neuer Beschäftigungschancen wird in der politischen Agenda und in der Rhetorik der Europäischen Union ein hoher Stellenwert eingeräumt. Die boomenden Märkte der Informations- und Kommunikationsindustrie werden als vielversprechendster Bereich für zukünftige Beschäftigung...

We use data from Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden to examine whether part-time and intermittent work during early motherhood leads to regular full-time work later. We find that in Sweden, by the time the first child is four years old 80 percent of mothers are working full-time...