Arbeitspapier

Exchange rate uncertainty and labour market adjustment under fixed and flexible exchange rates

The standard literature on working time has modelled the decisions of firms in a deterministic framework in which firms can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we follow the real options approach, which allows us to investigate the value to a firm of waiting to adjust labour when the firm´s revenues in domestic currency are stochastic and adjustment costs are sunk. The simulations reject the null hypothesis that all exchange rate regimes obey common employment adjustment thresholds.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: HWWA Discussion Paper ; No. 196

Classification
Wirtschaft
Labor Demand
Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
Foreign Exchange
Subject
Real Option Theory
Uncertainty
Working Time
Employment
Labour Demand
Exchange Rates
Wechselkursrisiko
Arbeitsnachfrage
Arbeitszeit
Realoption
Theorie der Unternehmung
Wechselkurssystem
Theorie

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Chen, Yu-Fu
Funke, Michael
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA)
(where)
Hamburg
(when)
2002

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Chen, Yu-Fu
  • Funke, Michael
  • Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA)

Time of origin

  • 2002

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