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Does downward nominal wage rigidity dampen wage increases?
Stüber, Heiko; Beissinger, Thomas - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2010
"Focusing on the compression of wage cuts, many empirical studies find a high degree of downward nominal wage rigidity (DNWR). However, the resulting macroeconomic effects seem to be surprisingly weak. This contradiction can be explained within an intertemporal framework in which DNWR not only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506504
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They are even larger! More (on) puzzling labor market volatilities
Gartner, Hermann; Merkl, Christian; Rothe, Thomas - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009
"This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market at the business cycle frequency. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, the labor market tightness and vacancies) divided by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005004093
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Regional unemployment forecasts with spatial interdependencies
Schanne, Norbert; Wapler, Rüdiger; Weyh, Antje - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
"We forecast unemployment for the 176 German labour-market districts on a monthly basis. Because of their small size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537154
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Patterns of unemployment dynamics in Germany
Nordmeier, Daniela; Weber, Enzo - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2013
"This paper studies the patterns of unemployment dynamics in Germany. To provide a deeper insight into the margins of … unemployment adjustment, we employ a structural VAR model and identify the effects of a technology shock as well as two policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010791530
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Decomposing Beveridge curve dynamics by correlated unobserved components
Klinger, Sabine; Weber, Enzo - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
components of matching efficiency and separation rate (shifting parameters) as well as unemployment and vacancies. Cointegration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010791531
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Wage posting or wage bargaining? : evidence from the employers’ side
Brenzel, Hanna; Gartner, Hermann; Schnabel, Claus - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2013
"Using a representative establishment dataset, this paper is the first to analyze the incidence of wage posting and wage bargaining in the matching process from the employer's side. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German labor market, with about two-thirds of hirings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010795475
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International trade and collective bargaining outcomes : Evidence from German employer-employee data
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Hauptmann, Andreas; Schmerer, … - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
"In theoretical trade models with variable markups and collective wage bargaining, export exposure may reduce the exporter wage premium. We test this prediction using linked German employer-employee data from 1996 to 2007. To separate the rent-sharing mechanism from assortative matching, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592292
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The formation of experts' expectations on labour markets : do they run with the pack?
Schanne, Norbert - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
unemployment in the short run. In this data we can discriminate between close and less-close peers to overcome the reflection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592351
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Persistence of regional unemployment : Application of a spatial filtering approach to local labour markets in Germany
Patuelli, Roberto; Schanne, Norbert; Griffith, Daniel A.; … - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011
"The geographical distribution and persistence of regional/local unemployment rates in heterogeneous economies (such as … an interest in analysing the dynamic adjustment processes of unemployment and the average degree of dependence of the … current unemployment rates or gross domestic product from the ones observed in the past. In this paper, we present a new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592387
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They are even larger! More (on) puzzling labor market volatilities
Gartner, Hermann; Merkl, Christian; Rothe, Thomas - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009
"This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market at the business cycle frequency. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, the labor market tightness and vacancies) divided by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592399