Arbeitspapier

Financing constraints, employment, and labor compensation: evidence from the subprime mortgage crisis

This paper identifies the effect of financing constraints on firms’ labor demand. We exploit exogenous funding shocks to German savings banks during the US mortgage crisis that are unrelated to local conditions. We find that firms with credit relationships with affected banks experienced a significant decline in employment and in labor compensation relative to firms whose credit relationships were with healthy banks. We also find that the employment effect increases, and the wage effect decreases with firm size. The decline in employment at firms attached to affected banks appears to be more long-lasting than the decline in labor compensation.

ISBN
978-92-899-1634-9
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ECB Working Paper ; No. 1821

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Financial Crises
Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
Labor Demand
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Thema
Credit constraints
employment
financial crisis
labor compensation

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Popov, Alexander
Rocholl, Jörg
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
European Central Bank (ECB)
(wo)
Frankfurt a. M.
(wann)
2015

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Popov, Alexander
  • Rocholl, Jörg
  • European Central Bank (ECB)

Entstanden

  • 2015

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