Mit diesem Forschungsbericht liegt die erste modellbasierte Wirkungsabschätzung von Industrie 4.0 auf Arbeitsmarkt und Wirtschaft in Deutschland vor. In einer 5-stufigen Szenario-Analyse werden zunächst die Auswirkungen von erhöhten Investitionen in Ausrüstungen (1) und Bau für ein...

We construct a new Markov-switching unobserved components framework for the analysis of hysteresis effects. Our model unifies the ingredients of trend-cycle decomposition, identification of spillovers between the components and asymmetry over the business cycle. Employing the model for Germany...

We sharpen tests for "discouragement" and "added worker" effects by splitting the explanatory variable - the unemployment rate - into a short-term and a long-term component. While short-term unemployment might not result in additional workers on a large scale, long-term unemployment reduces...

Using German data this study applies an unobserved-components approach to disentangle the unemployment rate into a (stochastic) trend and a cyclical part and to estimate the influence of these components on labor participation. The persistent trend component of unemployment, which triggers...

Between 1979 and 2009, the German labour market moved along a Beveridge curve with changing slope that usually shifted outwards but once inwards. We employ an unobserved components model to simultaneously disentangle permanent and transitory components of matching efficiency and separation rate...

This paper studies the patterns of unemployment dynamics in Germany. To provide a deeper insight into the margins of unemployment adjustment, we employ a structural VAR model and identify the effects of a technology shock as well as two policy shocks. We find that the worker reallocation process...

Using the example of short-term forecasts for German employment figures, the article at hand examines the question whether the use of disaggregated information increases the forecast accuracy of the aggregate. For this purpose, the out-ofsample forecasts for the aggregated employment forecast...

Der Vierte Armuts- und Reichtumsbericht der Bundesregierung (Bundestagsdrucksache 17/12650) muss zwei verschiedenen Anforderungen Rechnung tragen. Zum einen soll er aktuelle Fragestellungen und Befunde zu Armut, Reichtum und sozialer Ungleichheit in Deutschland synoptisch diskutieren. Zum...