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Extensive vs. Intensive Margin in Germany and the United States: Any Differences?

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Christian Merkl
Dennis Wesselbaum

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This papers analyzes the role of the extensive vis-à-vis the intensive margin of labor adjustment in Germany and the United States. The contribution is twofold. First, we provide an update of older U.S. 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 (namely, about three quarters). Second, although the German labor market is very different from its U.S. counterpart, the quantitative importance of the extensive margin is of similar magnitude

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Paper provided by Kiel Institute for the World Economy in its series Kiel Working Papers with number 1563.

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Date of creation: Oct 2009
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Keywords: Business Cycle; Extensive and Intensive Margin; Variance Decomposition;

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C10 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: General - - - General
E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure

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