The reaction of the German labor market to the Great Recession 2008/09 was relatively mild - especially compared to … structure - but also in a series of labor market reforms initiated between 2002 and 2005 altering, inter alia, labor supply … challenges the German labor market will soon have to face. Female labor supply still lies well below that of other countries and …

only the end of unemployment for the new entrepreneur but also some further positive effects, e.g., direct job creation …

. The German labor market has been plagued by high and persistent unemployment in the last two decades in combination with a …. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and … pension systems) and total labor supply is of crucial importance to combat problems and ensure economic growth in the future …

. The German labor market has been plagued by high and persistent unemployment in the last two decades in combination with a …. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and … pension systems) and total labor supply is of crucial importance to combat problems and ensure economic growth in the future …

standard model is enhanced by real wage rigidities or labor turnover costs, an endogenous short-run inflation-output tradeoff … arises. This paper compares the implications of the two labor market rigidities. It argues that economists and policymakers … alike should pay more attention to labor turnover costs for the following reasons. First, a model with labor turnover costs …

. 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 … could account for volatility differences across member states, but labor market characteristics have remained very diverse …

This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility … of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, labor market tightness, and job … vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor productivity is roughly twice as large as in the United States. We derive and …