Search Results - "Balleer, Almut"

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Does short-time work save jobs? A business cycle analysis

by Balleer, Almut Gehrke, Britta Lechthaler, Wolfgang Merkl, Christian Published in European economic review (01.05.2016)

“...In the Great Recession most OECD countries used short-time work (publicly subsidized working time reductions) to counteract a steep increase in unemployment...”

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Skill-biased technological change and the business cycle

by Balleer, Almut Rens, Thijs van Published in The review of economics and statistics (2013)

“...Over the past two decades, technological progress in the United States has been biased toward skilled labor. What does this imply for business cycles? We...”

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Some surprising facts about working time accounts and the business cycle in Germany

by Balleer, Almut Gehrke, Britta Merkl, Christian Published in International journal of manpower (02.10.2017)

“...Purpose Working time accounts (WTAs) allow firms to smooth hours worked over time. The purpose of this paper is to analyze whether this increase in flexibility...”

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Autonomes Fahren statt Stop and Go: Vorschläge zur effektiven Gestaltung der deutschen Kurzarbeit

by Balleer, Almut Gehrke, Britta Hochmuth, Brigitte Merkl, Christian Published in Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik (01.12.2019)

“...This article argues that short-time work stabilized employment in Germany substantially during the Great Recession in 2008/09. The labor market instrument...”

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Uncovering the mechanism(s): financial constraints and wages

by Arabzadeh, Hamzeh Balleer, Almut Gehrke, Britta
01.12.2020

“...How do wages respond to financial recessions? Based on a dynamic macroeconomic model with frictions in the labor and the financial market, we address two...”

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Labour force participation across Europe: a cohort-based analysis

by Balleer, Almut Balleer, Almut Gomez-Salvador, Ramon Gomez-Salvador, Ramon Turunen, Jarkko Turunen, Jarkko Published in Empirical economics (01.06.2014)

“...We use a cohort-based model to analyse the determinants of labour force participation in six European economies, focusing on age and cohort effects as factors...”

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Demand or supply? Price adjustment during the COVID-19 pandemic

by Balleer, Almut Link, Sebastian Menkhoff, Manuel Zorn, Peter
01.08.2020

“...We study price-setting behavior in German firm-level survey data to infer the relative importance of supply and demand during the Covid-19 pandemic. Supply and...”

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New evidence, old puzzles: Technology shocks and labor market dynamics

by Balleer, Almut Published in Quantitative economics (01.11.2012)

“...Can the standard search‐and‐matching labor market model replicate the business cycle fluctuations of the job finding rate and the unemployment rate? In the...”

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Skill-biased technological change and the business cycle

by Balleer, Almut Rens, Thijs van
2012

“...Over the past two decades, technological progress in the United States has been biased towards skilled labor. What does this imply for business cycles? We...”

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Demand or supply?: price adjustment during the Covid-19 pandemic
August 2020

by Balleer, Almut
2020

“...We study planned price changes in German firm-level survey data to infer the relative importance of supply and demand during the Covid-19 pandemic. Supply and...”

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The micro-level price response to monetary policy

by Balleer, Almut
2020

“...We estimate the effects of monetary policy on price-setting behavior in administrative micro data underlying the German producer price index. After...”

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Demand or supply?: price adjustment during the COVID-19 pandemic

by Balleer, Almut
2020

“...We study price-setting behavior in German firm-level survey data to infer the relative importance of supply and demand during the Covid-19 pandemic. Supply and...”

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