So far little empirical evidence exists on how real wages of newly hired workers react to business cycle conditions. This paper aims at filling this gap for Germany by analyzing the cyclical behavior of real wages of newly hired workers while controlling for 'cyclical upgrading' and 'cyclical...

Several recent macroeconomic models rely on rigid wages. Especially wage rigidity of newly hired workers seems to play a crucial role, since the decision of opening a vacancy or not is mainly influenced by their real wages. However, so far little empirical evidence exists on how real wages of...

Focusing on the compression of wage cuts, many empirical studies find a high degree of downward nominal wage rigidity (DNWR). However, the resulting macroeconomic effects seem to be surprisingly weak. This contradiction can be explained within an intertemporal framework in which DNWR not only...

In Deutschland gilt seit August 2013 ein Rechtsanspruch auf einen Betreuungsplatz auch für Kinder ab dem vollendeten ersten Lebensjahr. Bereits nach ersten gesetzlichen Anstößen kam es zu einem deutlichen Ausbau der Kinderbetreuungsangebote. Im Zuge dessen ist zwischen 2006 und 2014 die Zahl...

So far little empirical evidence exists on how real wages of newly hired workers react to business cycle conditions. This paper aims at filling this gap for Germany by analyzing the cyclical behavior of real wages of newly hired workers while controlling for 'cyclical upgrading' and 'cyclical...

This paper analyzes the effects of different wage cyclicalities on labor market flow dynamics at the establishment level. We derive a model that allows for heterogeneous wage cyclicalities across firms over the business cycle and confront the theoretical results with the new AWFP dataset, which...

We study the relationship between cyclical job and worker flows at the establishment level using the new German AWFP dataset spanning from 1975-2014. We find that worker turnover moves more procyclical than job turnover. This procyclical worker churn takes place along the entire employment...

In this paper, we analyze the connection between value added, wages, and labor market ows at the establishment level. For this purpose, we first develop a simple model to illustrate the expected comovement of these variables. For the empirical analysis, we link the new German Administrative Wage...

Unternehmensgründungen fördern den strukturellen Wandel und das Wirtschaftswachstum in einer Region. Deshalb wird - auch mit öffentlichen Mitteln - versucht, die Gründungsraten zu erhöhen. In aktuellen Bevölkerungsbefragungen wird der Gründungsprozess von der Gründungsabsicht bis zur...