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The German labor market miracle, 2003-2015 : an assessment
Burda, Michael C. - 2016
This paper reviews the dramatic and widely noted developments in the German labor market in the past decade and surveys the most plausible reasons for these changes. Alternative hypotheses are compared and contrasted. I argue that the labor market reforms associated with the Agenda 2010 – the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437903
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No role for the Hartz reforms? : demand and supply factors in the German labor market, 1993-2014
Burda, Michael C.; Seele, Stefanie - 2016
The supply and demand framework of Katz and Murphy (1992) provides new evidence on the source of changes in socially insured full-time and part-time employment in years preceding and following the implementation of the landmark Hartz reforms in Germany. Our findings are consistent with a stable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437993
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Unemployment, market work and household production
Burda, Michael C.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2009
additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment … lower amount of market work in areas of long-term high unemployment is offset by additional household production. In … contrast, in those areas where unemployment has risen cyclically reduced market work is made up almost entirely by additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269324
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Payroll Taxes, Social Insurance and Business Cycles
Burda, Michael C.; Weder, Mark - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
unemployment insurance, when thelatter is only imperfectly related to search effort. A balanced social insurance budget …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360583
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Not working at work : loafing, unemployment and labor productivity
Burda, Michael C.; Genadek, Katie R.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015
-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While the average time spent by workers in non …-work conditional on any positive non-work rises with the unemployment rate, the fraction of workers who report time in non-work varies … amounts of non-work with wage rates and measures of unemployment benefits in state data linked to the ATUS, and it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280688
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Not working at work : loafing, unemployment and labor productivity
Burda, Michael C.; Genadek, Katie; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015
-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While the average time spent by workers in non …-work conditional on any positive non-work rises with the unemployment rate, the fraction of workers who report time in non-work varies … amounts of non-work with wage rates and measures of unemployment benefits in state data linked to the ATUS, and it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011296782
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Unemployment, market work and household production
Burda, Michael C. (contributor);  … - 2009
additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment … lower amount of market work in areas of long-term high unemployment is offset by additional household production. In … contrast, in those areas where unemployment has risen cyclically reduced market work is made up almost entirely by additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796399
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Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production
Burda, Michael C. - 2009
additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment … lower amount of market work in areas of long-term high unemployment is offset by additional household production. In … contrast, in those areas where unemployment has risen cyclically reduced market work is made up almost entirely by additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765212
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Not Working at Work : Loafing, Unemployment and Labor Productivity
Burda, Michael C. - 2015
-work time is substantial and varies positively with the local unemployment rate. While the average time spent by workers in non …-work conditional on any positive non-work rises with the unemployment rate, the fraction of workers who report time in non-work varies … amounts of non-work with wage rates and measures of unemployment benefits in state data linked to the ATUS, and it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016402
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Jobs für Deutschland
Burda, Michael C.; Deubel, Ingolf; Franz, Wolfgang; … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 59 (2006) 12, pp. 5-11
Abschluss der ifo Jahresversammlung 2006 war eine hochrangig besetzten Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema "Jobs für Deutschland". Diskussionsteilnehmer waren - neben Minister Huber und Prof. Sinn - Prof. Michael Burda, Ph.D., Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Prof. Dr. Ingolf Deubel, Staatsminister der...
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