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Which factors are behind Germany's labour market upswing?

Hutter, Christian; Klinger, Sabine; Weber, Enzo; … - 2019

The strong and sustained labour market upswing in Germany is widely recognized. In a developing literature, various relevant studies highlight different specific reasons. The underlying study, instead, simultaneously considers a broad set of factors in a unified methodological framework and...

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Long-term unemployment and labor force participation : a decomposition of unemployment to test for the discouragement and added worker hypotheses

Fuchs, Johann; Weber, Enzo - 2015

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 household income more, increasing the need for additional income. On … are available, distinguishing between short-term and long-term unemployment reveals discouragement effects. …

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The unemployment impact of the COVID-19 shutdown measures in Germany

Bauer, Anja; Weber, Enzo - 2020

from employment into unemployment in April 2020 were due to the containment measures. In a second approach, we make use of … the unemployment effect coming from the separations margin. In sum, the lockdown measures increased unemployment in the …

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Modeling migration dynamics in stochastic labor supply forecasting

Hellwagner, Timon; Söhnlein, Doris; Weber, Enzo - 2023

Population size and structure in conjunction with the participation behavior are the determinants of labor supply. Thereby, among the demographic components, migration is the one shaping both the size and the structure of a population the strongest in the short to medium term while...

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Ziel »Vollbeschäftigung«: Erreichbar oder eine Illusion?

Weber, Enzo; Schäfer, Holger; Schmidt, Jörg; … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 70 (2017) 16, pp. 3-15

Die Ankündigung im Wahlprogramm der CDU, die Arbeitslosigkeit weiter reduzieren zu wollen, um bis zum Jahr 2025 Vollbeschäftigung in Deutschland zu erreichen, hat die Diskussion um dieses Thema wieder belebt. Was ist unter »Vollbeschäftigung« zu verstehen, und kann und sollte dieses Ziel...

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Forecasting labour supply and population : an integrated stochastic model

Fuchs, Johann; Söhnlein, Doris; Weber, Brigitte; … - 2017 - Aktualisierte Fassung vom 17. Mai 2017

This paper presents a stochastic integrated model to forecast the German population and labour supply until 2060. Within a cohort-component approach, the population forecast applies principal components to birth, mortality, emigration and immigration rates. The labour force participation rates...

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Identifying the Substitution Effect of Temporary Agency Employment

Jahn, Elke J. - 2012

This paper fills a gap in the literature by investigating whether temporary agency employment substitutes regular employment. To take into account the interaction between the two employment forms, we identify a SVAR model with correlated innovations by volatility regimes. We show that a positive...

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The effects of skill-biased technical change on productivity flattening and hours worked

Hutter, Christian; Weber, Enzo - 2017

In a structural macroeconometric analysis based on comprehensive micro data, we examine the role of skill-biased technical change for the flattening of productivity growth and effects on hours worked. The results show that more than 60 percent of the slowdown in productivity growth in Germany...

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Labour market effects of supply chain bottlenecks

Hummel, Markus; Hutter, Christian; Weber, Enzo - 2022

unemployment that are noticeable but still relatively limited. The effect on short-time work, on the other hand, is revealed to be …

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