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Worker identity, employment fluctuations and stabilization policy
Snower, Dennis J.; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2013
This paper provides a model of "social hysteresis" whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain work fall and consequently their employment chances...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752694
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Reflections on wage-setting
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018
Central banks need to be concerned about wages since they are a major driver of inflation. Rising wages are needed to signal directions for market adjustments to ensure growth. Wage growth is driven by relative scarcity, labor productivity and expectations about inflation and future growth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131008
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Trend growth, unemployment and optimal monetary policy
Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Tesfaselassie, Mewael F. - 2015
and matching unemployment. We show that trend growth in itself does not generate a trade-off for the monetary authority …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300631
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Big data and unemployment analysis
Bratu, Mihaela; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017
unemployment by means of internet activity data, a literature starting with the seminal article of Askitas and Zimmermann (2009a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114391
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Endogenous growth, skill obsolescence and output hysteresis in a New Keynesian model with unemployment
Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Tesfaselassie, Mewael F. - 2020
labor market and skill obsolescence from long-term unemployment. The model can account for key features of the Great … aggregate demand raises unemployment and the training costs associated with skill obsolescence. Lower employment hinders …
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Labor force participation, job search effort and unemployment insurance in the laboratory
Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Ring, Patrick - 2020
How the provision of unemployment benefits affects employment and unemployment is a debated issue. In this paper, we … job market with search effort and labor force participation decisions while varying the maximum length of unemployment … effort when unemployment benefits are extended. However, individuals are more likely to participate in the labor force and to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179598
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Another economic miracle? : the German labor market and the great recession
Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011
; Germany ; short-time work ; unemployment ; labor market institutions ; internal flexibility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009524339
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Crisis, what crisis? : patterns of adaptation in European labor markets
Eichhorst, Werner; Feil, Michael; Marx, Paul - 2010
countries have experienced a steep increase in unemployment, employment in other developed economies has not fallen in parallel … with a significant decline in GDP. Our analysis shows that labor market institutions frequently used to study employment … performance can explain the development of unemployment in the situation of crisis in some clusters of countries much better than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003986366
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The German labor market in the Great Recession : shocks and institutions
Gehrke, Britta; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian - 2017
institutions (short-time work, government spending rules) and shocks (aggregate, labor market, and policy shocks) and to perform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638405
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The German labor market during the Great Recession : shocks and institutions
Gehrke, Britta; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian - 2018
institutions (short-time work, government spending rules) and shocks (aggregate, labor market, and policy shocks) and to perform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916540