...Murat Demirci; Meltem Poyraz Purpose This study investigates the effect of business cycles on school enrollment in Turkey. During recessions, school enrollment might increase as opportunity cost of schooling declines, yet it might also decrease because of reduced income households have...

...Almut Balleer; Britta Gehrke; Christian Merkl Purpose Working time accounts (WTAs) allow firms to smooth hours worked over time. The purpose of this paper is to analyze whether this increase in flexibility has also affected how firms adjust employment in Germany over the business cycle. Design...

... in agency hours even before the business cycle reaches its peak. Then agency work declines further, in line with GDP, until regular workers are dismissed and the cycle start again. Originality/value Temporary work arrangements have become a key area of interest for firms, academics and policy makers...

... over the business cycle. The hypothesis that a worker′s decision on whether to quit depends negatively on the change in wages, even when controlling for the current level of wages, was tested by estimating quit equations with data from the second Employment Opportunity Pilot Project (EOPP) survey...

...Robert C. Dauffenbach; Paul W. Grimes Using three cross‐sectional data sets, the determinants of occupational upgrading over time for mobile workers in the United States are analysed. The model controls for the self‐selection of mobile workers over the course of the business cycle. The results...