Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 375
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012105105
Cover Image
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387803
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
A new look at the discouragement and the added worker hypotheses : applying a trend-cycle decomposition to unemployment
Fuchs, Johann; Weber, Enzo - 2013
Using German data this study applies an unobserved-components approach to disentangle the unemployment rate into a … trend component of unemployment, which triggers permanent reactions of the workers, is likely connected to a structural … effect. By splitting up the participation effect of changes in the unemployment rate our analysis differs profoundly from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009715284
Cover Image
Worker Identity, Employment Fluctuations and Stabilization Policy
Snower, Dennis J. - 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/10013080876
Cover Image
A new look at the discouragement and the added worker hypotheses : applying a trend-cycle decomposition to unemployment
Fuchs, Johann; Weber, Enzo - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2013
"Using German data this study applies an unobserved-components approach to disentangle the unemployment rate into a … trend component of unemployment, which triggers permanent reactions of the workers, is likely connected to a structural … effect. By splitting up the participation effect of changes in the unemployment rate our analysis differs profoundly from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691302
Cover Image
Worker Identity, Employment Fluctuations and Stabilization Policy
Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 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/10011084645
Cover Image
Worker Identity, Employment Fluctuations and Stabilization Policy
Snower, Dennis J.; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10010884315
Cover Image
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419538
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111688