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A beveridge curve decomposition for Austria : what drives the unemployment rate?

Christl, Michael - 2019

The Austrian Beveridge curve shifted in 2014, leading to ongoing academic discussions about the reasons behind this shift. While some have argued that the shift was caused by a supply shock due to labour market liberalization, others have stated that matching efficiency decreased. Using a new...

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Productivity in the Spanish regions during the recent economic cycles

Sosvilla-Rivero, Simón - 2011 - Very preliminary version, June 2011

The Spanish regions are facing a severe recession caused by the international financial crisis that has overlapped with the correction that had been recorded in the property market, which has led to a sharp drop in economic activity and a rapid destruction process employment. In these...

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Recruiting intensity and hiring practices : cross-sectional and time-series evidence

Lochner, Benjamin; Merkl, Christian; Stüber, Heiko; … - 2020

Using the German IAB Job Vacancy Survey, we look into the black box of recruiting intensity and hiring practices from … the employers' perspective. Our paper evaluates three important channels for hiring -namely vacancy posting, the … selectivity of hiring (labor selection), and the number of search channels- through the lens of an undirected search model …

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Are more severe recessions followed by stronger recoveries? : evidence from the Mexican states employment

Mejía Reyes, Pablo; Vergara-González, Reyna - 2015

On the basis of the suggestions of Friedman (1969, 1993) and Moore (1965) and considering the framework proposed by Balke and Wynne (1994, 1995), this paper evaluates whether recoveries growth depends on the characteristics of prior recessions (depth, steepness and duration) in the case of the...

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Marriage and divorce under labor market uncertainty

Holzner, Christian; Schulz, Bastian - 2019 - Preliminary version

This paper studies match formation and dissolution in frictional marriage markets under labor market uncertainty. We propose a search model with transferable utility in which ex-ante heterogeneous men and women simultaneously search for partners in the marriage market and switch between...

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What accounts for the German labor market miracle? : a macroeconomic investigation

Klein, Mathias; Schiman, Stefan - 2019 - This version: February 28, 2019

We study the driving forces of the so-called "German labor market miracle" the trend-shift and steady decline of German unemployment over the last two decades that persisted beyond the Great Recession. Our structural VAR approach encompasses various factors within a single comprehensive...

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Disentangling different patterns of business cycle synchronicity in the EU regions

Anagnostou, Ageliki; Panteladis, Ioannis; Tsiapa, Maria - 2012

The present paper discourses on how European integration and gradual enlargement has affected the synchronicity in business cycles in EU regions. The analysis, which is conducted on annual data at the NUTSII level, is based on the following grounds: First, it examines the degree of synchronicity...

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Are small firms more cyclically sensitive than large ones? : national, regional and sectoral evidence from Brazil

Cravo, Túlio - 2010

An important issue facing policymakers is the degree to which fluctuations in economic activity affect employment in large and small businesses across sectors and regions. These issues are particularly relevant for developing countries, as they matter for the understanding of the labour market...

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Adjustment dynamics and business cycle heterogeneity in the EMU : evidence from estimated DSGE models

Giovannini, Massimo; Hohberger, Stefan; Ratto, Marco; … - 2019

The paper reviews adjustment dynamics in the EMU on the basis of estimated DSGE models for four large EA Member States (DE, FR, IT, ES). We compare the response of the four countries to identical shocks and find a particularly strong response of employment and wages in ES, a high sensitivity of...

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Indicator-based estimates of the output gap in the euro area

Weiske, Sebastian - 2019

The output gap is a key variable of business cycle analysis and policy. Obtaining reliable estimates for it, is very difficult, though. Most real-time estimates are frequently revised over time. The idea of this paper is to use various indicators, for example from business surveys, that (i) were...

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