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Some surprising facts about working time accounts and the business cycle
Balleer, Almut; Gehrke, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2014
This paper reveals that German firms with working time accounts (WTAs) show a similar separation and hiring behavior in response to revenue changes as firms without WTAs. This finding casts doubt on the popular hypothesis that WTAs were the key driver of the unusually small increase in German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010402264
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Explaining the German employment miracle in the great recession : the crucial role of temporary working time reductions
Sturn, Simon; Herzog-Stein, Alexander; Lindner, Fabian - 2013
wirkte, während eine Reduktion der Arbeitszeit nicht durchgehend zum Einsatz kam. In der Großen Rezession spielten temporäre …, während die Reduktion der Arbeitszeit in historisch nicht gekanntem Umfang erfolgte. Unter Verwendung der IAB … Arbeitszeitrechnung zeigen wir, dass diese starke Reduktion der Arbeitszeit in der Großen Rezession insbesondere neuen …
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Some Surprising Facts about Working Time Accounts and the Business Cycle
Balleer, Almut; Gehrke, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2015
Working time accounts (WTAs) allow firms to smooth hours worked over time. This paper analyzes whether this increase in flexibility has also affected how firms adjust employment in Germany. Using a rich microeconomic dataset, we show that firms with WTAs show a similar separation and hiring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513183
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Some Surprising Facts about Working Time Accounts and the Business Cycle
Balleer, Almut; Gehrke, Britta; Merkl, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Working time accounts (WTAs) allow firms to smooth hours worked over time. This paper analyzes whether this increase in flexibility has also affected how firms adjust employment in Germany. Using a rich microeconomic dataset, we show that firms with WTAs show a similar separation and hiring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011196653
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Some surprising facts about working time accounts and the business cycle
Balleer, Almut; Gehrke, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2014
This paper reveals that German firms with working time accounts (WTAs) show a similar separation and hiring behavior in response to revenue changes as firms without WTAs. This finding casts doubt on the popular hypothesis that WTAs were the key driver of the unusually small increase in German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427031
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Some Surprising Facts about Working Time Accounts and the Business Cycle
Balleer, Almut; Gehrke, Britta; Merkl, Christian - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
This paper reveals that German firms with working time accounts (WTAs) show a similar separation and hiring behavior in response to revenue changes as firms without WTAs. This finding casts doubt on the popular hypothesis that WTAs were the key driver of the unusually small increase in German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905562
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Some surprising facts about working time accounts and the business cycle in Germany
Balleer, Almut; Gehrke, Britta; Merkl, Christian - In: International journal of manpower 38 (2017) 7, pp. 940-953
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742756
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Germany and the United States in coronavirus distress : internal versus external labour market flexibility
Herzog-Stein, Alexander; Nüß, Patrick; Peede, Lennert; … - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-22
Germany and the United States pursued different economic strategies to minimise the impact of the Coronavirus Crisis on the labour market. Germany focused on safeguarding existing jobs through the use of internal flexibility measures, especially short-time work (STW). The United States relied on...
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Adjusting Labor Along The Intensive Margins
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Biddle, Jeff - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We expand the analysis of cyclical changes in labor demand by decomposing changes along the intensive margin into those in days/week and in hours/day. Using large cross sections of U.S. data, 1985-2018, we observe around 1/4 of the adjustment in weekly hours occurring through changing days/week....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014635715
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Adjusting labor along the intensive margins
Biddle, Jeff; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2024
We expand the analysis of cyclical changes in labor demand by decomposing changes along the intensive margin into those in days/week and in hours/day. Using large cross sections of U.S. data, 1985-2018, we observe around ¼ of the adjustment in weekly hours occurring through changing days/week....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014584359