| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w17187 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 17187 |
| What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession? | |
| Michael C. Burda; Jennifer Hunt | |
| 发表日期 | 2011-06-29 |
| 出版年 | 2011 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment loss. Employers' reticence to hire in the preceding expansion, associated in part with a lack of confidence it would last, contributed to an employment shortfall equivalent to 40 percent of the missing employment decline in the recession. Another 20 percent may be explained by wage moderation. A third important element was the widespread adoption of working time accounts, which permit employers to avoid overtime pay if hours per worker average to standard hours over a window of time. We find that this provided disincentives for employers to lay off workers in the downturn. Although the overall cuts in hours per worker were consistent with the severity of the Great Recession, reduction of working time account balances substituted for traditional government-sponsored short-time work. |
| 主题 | Macroeconomics ; Consumption and Investment ; Business Cycles ; Labor Economics ; Unemployment and Immigration |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w17187 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/574861 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Michael C. Burda,Jennifer Hunt. What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession?. 2011. |
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| w17187.pdf（618KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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