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We document substantial cross-sectional heterogeneity of German establishments’ real wage cyclicality over the business … wages. We estimate a negative connection between establishments’ wage cyclicality and their employment cyclicality, thereby …
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We estimate Okun's law, the negative relationship between output and the unemployment rate, at the sector level for the US, the UK, Japan, and Switzerland to test several hypotheses that may explain why the aggregate Okun's coeffcients are different across countries. Specifically, we show that...
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labor demand. Tightening eligibility to short-time work benefits tends to reduce the wage while the impact on unemployment …
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We analyse the implications of habit formation relating to wages in a multi-period efficiency-wage model. If employees …. Greater intensity does not necessarily have the same consequences, because wage adjustments counteract the initial level … impact. The firm's response additionally depends on the wage-dependency of dismissal costs since such costs make an …
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, search for employers, and residual wage shocks to account for these life cycle wage dynamics. We highlight the importance of … largest part of life cycle wage dynamics. It accounts for 50% of average wage growth, 50% of rising differences between gender …
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sector and an informal sector which absorbs unemployed workers at a flexible wage rate. In this set up greater education for …
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We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades. Combining personal income tax and social security data allows us — for the first time — to offer a complete picture of the distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find...
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This paper develops a sufficient statistics approach for estimating the role of search frictions in wage dispersion and … lifecycle wage growth. We show how the wage dynamics of displaced workers are directly informative of both for a large class of … search models. Specifically, the correlation between pre- and post-displacement wages is informative of frictional wage …
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The canonical supply-demand model of the wage returns to skill has been extremely influential; however, it has faced …
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In the Covid-19 crisis, most OECD countries have used short-time work (subsidized working time reductions) to preserve employment relationships. This paper studies whether short-time work can save jobs through stabilizing aggregate demand in recessions. First, we show that the consumption risk...
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