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Gender-specific application behavior, matching, and the residual gender earnings gap

Lochner, Benjamin; Merkl, Christian - 2023

This paper analyzes the relationship between gender-specific application behavior, employer-side flexibility … requirements, and the gender earnings gap using a unique combination of the German Job Vacancy Survey (JVS) linked to …

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Gender-specific application behavior, matching, and the residual gender earnings gap

Lochner, Benjamin; Merkl, Christian - 2022

This paper opens up the black box of gender-specific application and hiring behavior and its implications for the … residual gender earnings gap. To understand the underlying mechanisms, we propose a two-stage matching model with testable … not in line with taste-based discrimination, but they can be rationalized by high-wage firms that ask for more employer …

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Gender-specific application behavior, matching, and the residual gender earnings gap

Lochner, Benjamin; Merkl, Christian - 2022

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Macroeconomic Volatilities and the Labor Market:First Results from the Euro Experiment

Merkl, Christian; Schmitz, Tom - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and outputvolatility. The eurozone offers an unprecedented experiment for this exercise: since 1999, nonational monetary policies have been implemented that could account for volatilitydifferences across member...

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Selective Hiring and Welfare Analysis in Labor Market Models

Merkl, Christian; Rens, Thijs van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

Firms select not only how many, but also which workers to hire. Yet, in standard searchmodels of the labor market, all workers have the same probability of being hired. We arguethat selective hiring crucially affects welfare analysis. Our model is isomorphic to a searchmodel under random hiring...

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Optimal fiscal policy with labor selection

Chugh, Sanjay K.; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian - 2016

This paper characterizes long-run and short-run optimal fiscal policy in the labor selection framework. In a calibrated non-Ramsey decentralized equilibrium, labor market volatility is inefficient. Keeping fixed the structural parameters, the Ramsey government achieves efficient labor market...

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Revisiting the matching function

Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian; Nordmeier, Daniela - 2016

There is strong empirical evidence for Cobb-Douglas matching functions. We show in this paper that this widely found relation between matches on the one hand and unemployment and vacancies on the other hand can be the result of different underlying mechanisms. Obviously, it can be generated by...

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Optimal fiscal policy with labor selection

Chugh, Sanjay K.; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian - 2015 - This draft: October 25, 2015

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Business cycle asymmetries and the labor market

Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2016

This paper shows that the matching function and the Beveridge curve in the United States exhibit strong nonlinearities over the business cycle. These patterns can be replicated by enhancing a search and matching model with idiosyncratic productivity shocks for new contacts. Large negative...

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Revisiting the matching function

Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian; Nordmeier, Daniela - 2016

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011477306