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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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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/10011881536
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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/10003986366
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How can temporary work agencies provide more training?
Spermann, Alexander - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
to more sustainable employment. Adjustments in labor market institutions could make the provision of training more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573641
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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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Short-time work compensations and employment
Cahuc, Pierre - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
Government schemes that compensate workers for the loss of income while they are on short hours (known as short-time work compensation schemes) make it easier for employers to temporarily reduce hours worked so that labor is better matched to output requirements. Because the employers do not lay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404834
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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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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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Short-time work compensation schemes and employment
Cahuc, Pierre - In: IZA World of Labor (2019)
Government schemes that compensate workers for the loss of income while they are on short hours (known as short-time work compensation schemes) make it easier for employers to temporarily reduce hours worked so that labor is better matched to output requirements. Because the employers do not lay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120538
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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/10011413539