Arbeitspapier
Does Short-Time Work Save Jobs? A Business Cycle Analysis
In the Great Recession most OECD countries used short-time work (publicly subsidized working time reductions) to counteract a steep increase in unemployment. We show that short-time work can actually save jobs. However, there is an important distinction to be made: While the rule-based component of short-time work is a cost-efficient job saver, the discretionary component appears to be completely ineffective. In a case study for Germany, we use the rich data available to combine micro- and macroeconomic evidence with macroeconomic modeling in order to identify, quantify and interpret these two components of short-time work.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 4640
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
Business Fluctuations; Cycles
Fiscal Policy
Labor Economics Policies
Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
- Thema
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short-time work
fiscal policy
business cycles
search-and-matching
SVAR
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Balleer, Almut
Gehrke, Britta
Lechthaler, Wolfgang
Merkl, Christian
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
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Munich
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2014
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Balleer, Almut
- Gehrke, Britta
- Lechthaler, Wolfgang
- Merkl, Christian
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2014