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Worker identity, employment fluctuations and stabilization policy
Snower, Dennis J.; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2013
This paper provides a model of "social hysteresis" whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain work fall and consequently their employment chances...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752694
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Worker Identity, Employment Fluctuations and Stabilization Policy
Snower, Dennis J. - 2013
This paper provides a model of "social hysteresis" whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain work fall and consequently their employment chances...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080876
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Worker Identity, Employment Fluctuations and Stabilization Policy
Snower, Dennis J.; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2013
This paper provides a model of social hysteresis whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain work fall and consequently their employment chances fall....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319518
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Trend growth, unemployment and optimal monetary policy
Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Tesfaselassie, Mewael F. - 2015
and matching unemployment. We show that trend growth in itself does not generate a trade-off for the monetary authority …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300631
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Endogenous growth, skill obsolescence and output hysteresis in a New Keynesian model with unemployment
Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Tesfaselassie, Mewael F. - 2020
labor market and skill obsolescence from long-term unemployment. The model can account for key features of the Great … aggregate demand raises unemployment and the training costs associated with skill obsolescence. Lower employment hinders …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269664
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Labor force participation, job search effort and unemployment insurance in the laboratory
Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Ring, Patrick - 2020
How the provision of unemployment benefits affects employment and unemployment is a debated issue. In this paper, we … job market with search effort and labor force participation decisions while varying the maximum length of unemployment … effort when unemployment benefits are extended. However, individuals are more likely to participate in the labor force and to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179598
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In-Work Benefits and Unemployment
Tonin, Mirco - 2011
of in-work benefits on search intensity, participation, employment, and unemployment, compared to a framework in which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130454
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The German labor market in the Great Recession : shocks and institutions
Gehrke, Britta; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian - 2017
institutions (short-time work, government spending rules) and shocks (aggregate, labor market, and policy shocks) and to perform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638405
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Counteracting unemployment in crises : non-linear effects of short-time work policy
Gehrke, Britta; Hochmuth, Brigitte - 2018
Short-time work is a labor market policy that subsidizes working time reductions among firms in financial difficulty to prevent layoffs. Many OECD countries have used this policy in the Great Recession. This paper shows that the effects of short-time work are strongly time dependent and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011845664
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The German labor market during the Great Recession : shocks and institutions
Gehrke, Britta; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian - 2018
institutions (short-time work, government spending rules) and shocks (aggregate, labor market, and policy shocks) and to perform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916540