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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2011
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
SFB 649 Discussion Paper No. 2011-031
Verlag: 
Humboldt University of Berlin, Collaborative Research Center 649 - Economic Risk, Berlin
Zusammenfassung: 
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. We find that this provided disincentives for employers to lay off workers in the downturn. While 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.
Schlagwörter: 
unemployment
Germany
Great Recession
short time work
working time accounts
Hartz reforms
extensive vs. intensive employment margin
JEL: 
E24
E65
J23
J33
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

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