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Counteracting unemployment in crises : non-linear effects of short-time work policy
Gehrke, Britta; Hochmuth, Brigitte - 2018
Short-time work is a labor market policy that subsidizes working time reductions among firms in financial difficulty to prevent layoffs. Many OECD countries have used this policy in the Great Recession. This paper shows that the effects of short-time work are strongly time dependent and...
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Short-time work and precautionary savings
Dengler, Thomas; Gehrke, Britta - 2021
In the Covid-19 crisis, most OECD countries use short-time work schemes (subsidized working time reductions) to preserve employment relationships. This paper studies whether short-time work can save jobs through stabilizing aggregate demand in recessions. We build a New Keynesian model with...
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Counteracting unemployment in crises : non-linear effects of short-time work policy
Gehrke, Britta; Hochmuth, Brigitte - 2017
Kurzarbeit ermöglicht eine temporäre Reduktion der Arbeitszeit von Arbeitnehmern in Firmen, die einer schwachen … diesem Papier zeigen wir, dass sich die Effekte diskretionärer Kurzarbeit deutlich über den Konjunkturzyklus verändern und in … Rezession und Expansion nichtlinear sind. In tiefen Rezessionen kann Kurzarbeit bis zu 0,8 Arbeitsplätze pro Kurzarbeiter …
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Overeducation and economic mobility
Markussen, Simen; Nareklishvili, Maria; Røed, Knut - 2024
We assess the hypothesis that declining intergenerational economic mobility in Norway is attributable to a rising signaling value of education accompanied by more overeducation particularly among upperclass offspring. We identify five empirical facts that together point in this direction: •...
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Short-time work and precautionary savings
Dengler, Thomas; Gehrke, Britta - 2022
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013332143
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Labor misallocation across firms and regions
Heise, Sebastian; Porzio, Tommaso - 2022
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Payroll taxes and factor demand
Hart, Robert A.; Kawasaki, Seiichi - 1985
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The interplay between trade unions and the social security system in an aging economy
Friese, Max - 2017
The paper investigates the impacts of demographic change on the financial sustainability of a pay-as-you-go social security system in an economy with unemployment caused by trade unions. Using a simple two-period overlapping generations approach, it can be shown that the trade union behavior...
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The labor market effect of demographic change : alleviation for financing social security
Friese, Max - 2015 - Revised version
The paper shows the effect of demographic change on per capita burden of financing a PAYG social security system in the standard OLG model with frictional labor markets. Rising longevity and decreasing fertility both induce a rise in the employment level via increased capital accumulation and...
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Die Opportunitätskosten der sozialen Absicherung beim Wechsel aus dem Arbeitslosengeld I in die Selbstständigkeit : Simulationsrechnungen für ausgewählte Fallgruppen
Gawlitta, Lars; Kay, Rosemarie - 2010
Das IfM Bonn hat anhand von umfangreichen Simulationsrechnungen die Kosten der sozialen Absicherung geschätzt, die sich hierzulande aus dem Wechsel eines Beziehers von Arbeitslosengeld (ALG) I in die berufliche Selbstständigkeit ergeben. Dabei wurde die individuelle Perspektive des ALG...
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