This paper studies the conditional patterns of unemployment dynamics in Germany. We employ a structural VAR model and identify a technology shock and two policy shocks by using standard restrictions. Interestingly, the worker reallocation process varies substantially with the identified shocks....

This paper studies the patterns of unemployment dynamics in Germany. To provide a deeper insight into the margins of unemployment adjustment, we employ a structural VAR model and identify the effects of a technology shock as well as two policy shocks. We find that the worker reallocation process...

Modern working societies face the challenge to combine the establishments' with the employees' needs for working-time flexibility. The authors investigate the determinants of overtime and different working hours' arrangements using the German Linked Employer-Employee Study of the Socio-Economic...

In this paper we examine how employment and hiring processes develop in the course of digitalisation in German establishments. To this end we use a large representative business survey - the IAB Job Vacancy Survey - that was extended in 2015 to include special questions about the state of...

With the Russian war against Ukraine, global economic conditions changed abruptly. We provide first causal evidence of effects of the energy crisis on Germany as Europe's most important economy. Combining cost structure data, national accounts and administrative labour market data, we identify...

Während die Arbeitsmärkte in Europa und auf der ganzen Welt unter den Auswirkungen der großen Rezession 2008/2009 und der europäischen Schuldenkrise 2012/2013 zu leiden hatten, war in Deutschland ein starker und anhaltender Aufschwung auf dem Arbeitsmarkt zu beobachten. Bis vor Corona hatte...

Während Europa sich von einer Beinahe-Krise zur nächsten hangelt, hält sich die deutsche Konjunktur relativ gut. Angewiesen ist sie dabei auf den starken Inlandskonsum als wesentliche Stütze. Und der basiert wiederum auf der guten Beschäftigungsentwicklung. Wenn es aber wieder einmal zu...

Während die Arbeitsmärkte in Europa und auf der ganzen Welt unter den Auswirkungen der großen Rezession 2008/2009 und der europäischen Schuldenkrise 2012/2013 zu leiden hatten, war in Deutschland ein starker und anhaltender Aufschwung auf dem Arbeitsmarkt zu beobachten. Bis vor Corona hatte...

Between 1979 and 2009, the German labour market moved along a Beveridge curve with changing slope that usually shifted outwards but once inwards. We employ an unobserved components model to simultaneously disentangle permanent and transitory components of matching efficiency and separation rate...

This paper investigates the time-varying relationship between German output and employment growth, in particular their decoupling in recent years. We estimate a correlated unobserved components model that allows for both persistent and cyclical time variation in the employment impact of GDP as...