Search Results - "Merkl, Christian"

End the Recruitment Crisis! by Merkl, Christian, Weber, Enzo

“…In contrast to the economic and financial crisis of 2009, the labour market has been hit harder during the coronavirus crisis in 2020. New hires have declined…”
Get full text

Public Employment Agency Reform, Matching Efficiency, and German Unemployment by Merkl, Christian, Sauerbier, Timo

“…Our paper analyzes the role of public employment agencies in job matching, in particular the effects of the restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in…”
Get full text

Perspectives on Germany’s Welfare Reform (“Bürgergeld”) by Christian Merkl

“…Abstract The Hartz IV labour market reform in 2005 triggered a substantial reduction in unemployment in Germany. At the same time, it reduced social welfare…”
Get full text

Perspectives on Germany's Welfare Reform /Perspektiven zum Burgergeld by Merkl, Christian

“…The Hartz IV labour market reform in 2005 triggered a substantial reduction in unemployment in Germany. At the same time, it reduced social welfare for the…”
Get full text

Perspektiven zum Bürgergeld by Merkl, Christian

“…The Hartz IV labour market reform in 2005 triggered a substantial reduction in unemployment in Germany. At the same time, it reduced social welfare for the…”
Get full text

Business cycle asymmetries and the labor market by Kohlbrecher, Britta, Merkl, Christian

“…This paper shows that a search and matching model with idiosyncratic training cost shocks can explain the asymmetric movement of the job-finding rate over the…”
Get full text

Does short-time work save jobs? A business cycle analysis by Balleer, Almut, Gehrke, Britta, Lechthaler, Wolfgang, Merkl, Christian

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

Hartz IV and the decline of German unemployment: A macroeconomic evaluation by Hochmuth, Brigitte, Kohlbrecher, Britta, Merkl, Christian, Gartner, Hermann

“…This paper proposes a new approach to evaluate the macroeconomic effects of the “Hartz IV” reform, which reduced the generosity of long-term unemployment…”
Get full text

Wage and employment cyclicalities at the establishment level by Merkl, Christian, Stüber, Heiko

Get full text

Selective hiring and welfare analysis in labor market models by Merkl, Christian, van Rens, Thijs

“…•The common assumption that all workers are equally employable is unrealistic.•Relaxing the assumption maintains positive predictions but changes welfare…”
Get full text

Disinflationary booms? by Merkl, Christian

“…This paper shows that announced credible disinflations under inflation targeting lead to a boom in a standard New Keynesian model (i.e. a disinflationary…”
Get full text

Loan supply and bank capital: A micro-macro linkage by Kick, Thomas, Malinkovich, Swetlana, Merkl, Christian

“…•Microeconomic bank balance sheet data from Germany.•Estimation of banks’ loan supply response with respect to capital changes.•Modification of the model by…”
Get full text

End the Recruitment Crisis/Raus aus der Neueinstellungskrise by Merkl, Christian, Weber, Enzo

“…In contrast to the economic and financial crisis of2009, the labour market has been hit harder during the coronavirus crisis in 2020. New hires have declined…”
Get full text

Raus aus der Neueinstellungskrise by Merkl, Christian, Weber, Enzo

“…Anders als in der Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise 2009 ist der Arbeitsmarkt in der Corona-Krise 2020 deutlich stärker betroffen. Insbesondere die Neueinstellungen…”
Get full text

Perspektiven zum Bürgergeld by Merkl, Christian

“…The Hartz IV labour market reform in 2005 triggered a substantial reduction in unemployment in Germany. At the same time, it reduced social welfare for the…”
Get full text

Revisiting the matching function by Kohlbrecher, Britta, Merkl, Christian, Nordmeier, Daniela

“…There is strong empirical evidence for Cobb–Douglas matching functions. We show in this paper that this widely found relation between matches on the one hand…”
Get full text

The German labor market during the Great Recession: Shocks and institutions by Gehrke, Britta, Lechthaler, Wolfgang, Merkl, Christian

“…This paper analyzes Germany’s unusual labor market experience during the Great Recession. We estimate a general equilibrium model with a detailed labor market…”
Get full text

EFFICIENCY AND LABOR MARKET DYNAMICS IN A MODEL OF LABOR SELECTION by Chugh, Sanjay K., Merkl, Christian

“…This article characterizes efficient labor market allocations in a labor selection model. The model's crucial aspect is cross-sectional heterogeneity for new…”
Get full text

Recruiting intensity and hiring practices: Cross-sectional and time-series evidence by Lochner, Benjamin, Merkl, Christian, Stüber, Heiko, Gürtzgen, Nicole

“…•Using the German IAB Job Vacancy Survey, we study recruiting intensity and hiring practices from the employers’ perspective, comparing empirical facts to…”
Get full text

Worker churn in the cross section and over time: New evidence from Germany by Bachmann, Rüdiger, Bayer, Christian, Merkl, Christian, Seth, Stefan, Stüber, Heiko, Wellschmied, Felix

“…•Worker churn is procyclical in the German labor market.•At the plant level worker churn increases in absolute value of employment growth.•Worker churn results…”
Get full text