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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

The German labor market during 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/10011634724

What is a good job?

Eichhorst, Werner; Wozny, Florian; Mähönen, Erno - 2015

After the apparent rise of so‐called atypical and 'precarious' jobs, the quality of employment has become of interest because such employment relationships are often related to objectively or subjectively worse working conditions. In this paper we look in detail into what is known about job...

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Promoting youth employment in Europe : evidence-based policy lessons

Eichhorst, Werner; Rinne, Ulf - 2016

Youth unemployment has become a severe economic and societal problem in many European countries. Based on the existing …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011582723

The European Youth Guarantee : A Preliminary Assessment and Broader Conceptual Implications

Eichhorst, Werner; Rinne, Ulf - 2017

This paper assesses the current situation of youth unemployment in the European Union. In this context, the main …

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Welfare states, labor markets, social investment and the digital transformation

Eichhorst, Werner; Hemerijck, Anton; Scalise, Gemma - 2020

Barely having had the time to digest the economic and social aftershocks of the Great Recession, European welfare states are confronted with the even more disruptive coronavirus pandemic as probably, threatening the life of the more vulnerable, while incurring job losses for many as the...

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The impact of the crisis on employment and the role of labour market institutions

Eichhorst, Werner; Escudero, Verónica; Marx, Paul; … - 2010

economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline in employment and rise in unemployment in … shows that, at least for the time being, unemployment increases have been contained in countries with comparatively strong … ; employment ; EPL ; institutions ; flexibility ; dual labour markets …

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Not so standard anymore? : employment duality in Germany

Eichhorst, Werner; Tobsch, Verena - 2014

This paper gives an overview of the transformation of the German labour market since the mid-1990s with a special focus on the changing patterns of labour market segmentation or "dualization" of employment in Germany. While labour market duality in Germany can partially be attributed to labour...

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What have we learned? : assessing labor market institutions and indicators

Eichhorst, Werner; Feil, Michael; Braun, Christoph - 2008

In den letzten Jahren hat sowohl die Anzahl der Studien zu den gesamtwirtschaftlichen Wirkungen von Arbeitsmarktinstitutionen als auch die Zahl der vorhandenen Indikatoren zur Messung dieser Institutionen sehr stark zugenommen. Gut zehn Jahre nach Nickells (1997) maßgeblichem Beitrag über den...

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Optimal fiscal policy with labor selection

Chugh, Sanjay K.; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian - 2016

This paper characterizes long-run and short-run optimal fiscal policy in the labor selection framework. In a calibrated non-Ramsey decentralized equilibrium, labor market volatility is inefficient. Keeping fixed the structural parameters, the Ramsey government achieves efficient labor market...

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