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We analyse measures of internal flexibility taken to safeguard employment during the Coronavirus Crisis in comparison … to the Great Recession. Cyclical working-time reductions are again a major factor in safeguarding employment. Whereas … more than twice as large as that in May 2009. Furthermore, marginal employment is affected strongly but not protected by …
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This paper investigates the reasons for the exceptionally robust performance of the German labour market during the … Great Recession. While GDP dropped by more than five per cent in 2009, employment remained constant and started to increase … productivity and working time cushioned their impact on employment. We find that reductions in hourly productivity played a …
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We analyse measures of internal flexibility taken to safeguard employment during the Coronavirus Crisis in comparison … to the Great Recession. Cyclical working-time reductions are again a major factor in safeguarding employment. Whereas … April 2020 that was more than twice as large as that in May 2009. Furthermore, marginal employment is affected strongly but …
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Die gemeinsame Stellungnahme von WSI und IMK beantwortet ausgewählte Fragen zu den bisherigen Auswirkungen des Mindestlohns und seiner zukünftigen Anpassung. Die Fragen und Antworten, die in diesem Policy Brief präsentiert werden, erfolgten im Rahmen einer schriftlichen Anhörung der...
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working time in the downturn, and labour-hoarding by employers. Cyclical working time reduction saved some 1.1 million jobs …Despite the biggest economic slump in Germany since the Second World War, employment did not decrease. In other … European countries, which have even been hit less hard, employment started to decrease significantly. This 'employment miracle …
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Trotz der größten Wirtschaftskrise nach dem 2. Weltkrieg ist die Beschäftigung in Deutschland nicht gefallen. In anderen europäischen Ländern, die sogar weniger von der Wirtschaftskrise betroffen waren, ist die Beschäftigung stark gesunken. Dieses "Arbeitsmarktwunder" erklärt sich durch...
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working time in the downturn, and labour-hoarding by employers. Cyclical working time reduction saved some 1.1 million jobs …Despite the biggest economic slump in Germany since the Second World War, employment did not decrease. In other … European countries, which have even been hit less hard, employment started to decrease significantly. This 'employment miracle …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009566031
This article analyses the relevance of the extensive and the intensive margin of labour adjustment over the business … with results from the research on the German employment performance in the Great Recession which attributed part of the … employment success to the widespread use of instruments of internal flexibility. Our results confirm that generally, the …
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effects, and positive employment effects although not robustly estimated in their magnitude are found. …
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structural effect away from mini-jobs towards additional employment subject to social security contributions, while the volume of …, the IMK tries to determine the short-term and expected medium- to long-term growth, price and employment effects with the … consumption. The price increases triggered were negligible on a macroeconomic scale. At the same time, there was a significant …
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