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Auray, Stéphane; Danthine, Samuel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

A matching model with labor/leisure choice and bargaining frictions is used to explain (i) differences in GDP per hour and GDP per capita, (ii) differences in employment, (iii) differences in the proportion of part-time work across countries. The model predicts that the higher the level of...

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State Intervention and Labour Market in India: Issues and Options

Majumder, Rajarshi; Mukherjee, Dipa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

State interventions into Labour policies in India are directed towards ensuring both job security and income security. In this paper we look at likely impact of such policies. The laws are found to serve the organised workers primarily while large masses of unorganised workers are without any...

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Real Wage Flexibility in the Enlarged Eu: Evidence From a Structural Var

Babeckı, Jan; Dybczak, Kamil - In: National Institute Economic Review 204 (2008) 1, pp. 126-138

Membership in the monetary union imposes higher demands on factor market flexibility, since neither the exchange rate nor monetary policies can be used to deal with country-specific shocks. In this paper we assess the ability of the twelve new EU member states (NMS-12) to dampen the impact of...

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European Union Economy System Dynamic Model Development

Skribans, Valerijs - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The formation of the European Union (EU) is the one of the biggest political – economic events of the last 50 years. The aim of this study is to develop EU economy functioning system dynamic model. Main research method is system dynamics. General scheme of EU economy system dynamic model is...

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Some Surprising Facts about Working Time Accounts and the Business Cycle

Balleer, Almut; Gehrke, Britta; Merkl, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

flexibility has also affected how firms adjust employment in Germany. Using a rich microeconomic dataset, we show that firms with … the key driver of the unusually small increase in German unemployment in the Great Recession. …

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Die Arbeitslosenversicherung in Deutschland – Beitrag zur Bekämpfung oder Ursache von Arbeitslosigkeit

Breiding, Torsten - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

analyze the effects of the German unemployment insurance - the reality in Germany compared to the theory - an evaluation of …Abstract German (English abstract is added below) Arbeitslosigkeit gilt als eines der schwerwiegendsten … Arbeitslosigkeit, für die anhaltende Beschäftigungskrise vor? Und in welchem Umfang hat das deutsche Sozial- und Wohlfahrtssystem zu …

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Actual Implications of the Current Economic Crisis for Austrian Enterprises – Results of a Company Survey

Kwapil, Claudia - In: Monetary Policy & the Economy (2009) 4, pp. 98-110

This article is based on the results of a survey conducted among 731 Austrian companies and supplements the known macroeconomic facts about the current economic crisis with micro data. While a decline in demand was the main challenge companies faced, they also had to cope with financing problems...

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Some Evidence on the Importance of Sticky Wages

Barattieri, Alessandro; Basu, Susanto; Gottschalk, Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

peak at 12 months. 5) The probability of a wage change is positively correlated with the unemployment rate and with the … consumer price inflation rate. …

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Competition and Relational Contracts: The Role of Unemployment as a Disciplinary Device

Brown, Martin; Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst - Schweizerische Nationalbank (SNB) - 2008

When unemployment prevails, relations with a particular firm are valuable for workers. As a consequence, a worker may … firms. Our results thus suggest that unemployment is not a necessary device to motivate workers. We also discuss how market … characterized by unemployment. Surprisingly though, this does not compromise market performance. …

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Firms’ Reactions to the Crisis and their Consequences for the Labour Market. Results of a Company Survey conducted in Austria

Kwapil, Claudia - Oesterreichische Nationalbank - 2010

This article is based on the results of two company surveys - the first was conducted in 2007, before the recession 2008/2009 hit Austria, and the second was conducted in 2009 shortly after the trough of it. We analyse firms' reactions to the crisis and focus on their labour market relevant...

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