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Extensive vs. intensive margin in Germany and the United States: Any differences?

This paper analyzes the role of the extensive vis-à-vis the intensive margin of labor adjustment in Germany and in the United States. The contribution is twofold. First, we provide an update of older US studies and confirm the view that the extensive margin (i.e., the adjustment in the number of workers) explains the largest part in the overall variability in aggregate hours. Second, although the German labor market structure is very different from its US counterpart, the quantitative importance of the extensive margin is of similar magnitude.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 5117

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General
Business Fluctuations; Cycles
Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
Thema
business cycle
extensive and intensive margin
variance decomposition

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Merkl, Christian
Wesselbaum, Dennis
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2010

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-201010132728
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Merkl, Christian
  • Wesselbaum, Dennis
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2010

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