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Gender-specific application behaviour, matching, and the residual gender earnings gap
Lochner, Benjamin; Merkl, Christian - 2025
This paper examines how gender-specific application behaviour, firms' hiring practices, and flexibility demands relate … to the gender earnings gap, using linked data from the German Job Vacancy Survey and administrative records. Women are … similar when they do. We show that compensating differentials for firms' flexibility demands help explain the residual gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015395642
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013330970
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014446046
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013341859
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Gender-specific application behaviour, matching, and the residual gender earnings gap
Lochner, Benjamin; Merkl, Christian - 2025
This paper examines how gender-specific application behaviour, firms' hiring practices, and flexibility demands relate … to the gender earnings gap, using linked data from the German Job Vacancy Survey and administrative records. Women are … similar when they do. We show that compensating differentials for firms' flexibility demands help explain the residual gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015371999
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The German labor market during the Great Recession: Shocks and institutions
Gehrke, Britta; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian - In: Economic Modelling 78 (2019), pp. 192-208
This paper analyzes Germany’s unusual labor market experience during the Great Recession. We estimate a general equilibrium model with a detailed labor market block for post-unification Germany. This allows us to disentangle the role of institutions (short-time work, government spending rules)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013436693
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Does Short-Time Work Save Jobs? A Business Cycle Analysis
Balleer, Almut; Gehrke, Britta; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; … - 2013
In the Great Recession most OECD countries used short-time work (publicly subsidized working time reductions) to counteract a steep increase in unemployment. We show that short-time work can actually save jobs. However, there is an important distinction to be made: While the rule-based component...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319488
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Does short-time work save jobs? A business cycle analysis
Balleer, Almut; Gehrke, Britta; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; … - 2013
This paper analyzes the effects of short-time work (i.e., government subsidized working time reductions) on unemployment and output fluctuations. The central question is whether the rule based component (i.e., the existence of the institution short-time work) and the discretionary component...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294349
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An incentive theory of matching
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2009
This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are heterogeneous variations in the characteristics of workers and jobs, and firms face adjustment costs in responding to these variations. Matches and separations are described...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332764
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Revisiting the matching function
Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian; Nordmeier, Daniela - 2014
Many labor market models use both idiosyncratic productivity and a vacancy free entry condition. This paper shows that these two features combined generate an equilibrium comovement between matches on the one hand and unemployment and vacancies on the other hand, which is observationally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332854