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Michael C. Burda is affiliated with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on various aspects of economics, econometrics, and finance, with specialization in economics and econometrics, general economics, econometrics, and finance, as well as related interdisciplinary areas including sociology, political science, and health professions.

The scientist has contributed to multiple topics within the field, including employment and welfare studies, economic theory and policy, economic growth and productivity, economic theories and models, labor market dynamics and wage inequality, intergenerational and educational inequality studies, and fiscal policy and economic growth.

Key recent publications include:

  • Reevaluating the German labor market miracle, 2020, German Economic Review
  • Social Security Contributions and the Business Cycle, 2020, Journal of Macroeconomics
  • A reversal in the global decline of the labor share?, 2021, Economics Letters
  • 30 Jahre deutsche Einheit: Wie steht es wirklich?, 2020, Wirtschaftsdienst
  • Greenhouse Gas Mitigation and Price-Driven Growth in a Solow-Swan Economy with an Environmental Limit, 2024, SSRN Electronic Journal

Among frequent co-authors working with Michael C. Burda are Stefanie Seele, Anna Almosova, Simon Voigts, Selen Başer Andıç, and Leopold Zessner-Spitzenberg.

The scientist's research has appeared in various publication venues such as German Economic Review, Journal of Macroeconomics, Economics Letters, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Digital Finance.

Best Publications

  • Macroeconomics: a European Text

    Michael Burda;Charles Wyplosz

  • Gross worker and job flows in Europe

    Michael Burda;Charles Wyplosz;Charles Wyplosz

  • What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession

    Michael C. Burda;Jennifer Hunt

  • The Determinants of East-West German Migration: Some First Results

    Michael C Burda

  • From Reunification to Economic Integration: Productivity and the Labor Market in Eastern Germany

    Michael C. Burda;Jennifer Hunt

  • Estimating wage losses of displaced workers in Germany

    Michael C Burda;Antje Mertens

  • Macroeconomics - A European Text

    Michael C. Burda;Charles Wyplosz

  • Unemployment, labour markets and structural change in Eastern Europe

    Michael Burda

  • The role of unions in the twenty-first century: a report for the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti

    T. Boeri;A. Brugiavini;L. Calmfors;A.L. Booth

  • Migration and the Option Value of Waiting

    Michael C Burda

  • Migration and the Option Value of Waiting

    Michael C. Burda

  • Total Work and Gender: Facts and Possible Explanations

    Michael C Burda;Daniel S. Hamermesh;Philippe Weil

  • The Distribution of Total Work in the EU and US

    Michael C. Burda;Daniel S. Hamermesh;Philippe Weil

  • Stabilizing a previously centrally planned economy: Poland 1990

    Guillermo A. Calvo;Fabrizio Coricelli

  • Matching Across Space: Evidence on Mobility in the Czech Republik

    Michael C Burda;Stefan Profit

  • Semiparametric analysis of German East–West migration intentions: facts and theory

    Michael C. Burda;Wolfgang Härdle;Marlene Müller;Axel Werwatz

  • Privatization policies in Central and Eastern Europe

    Patrick Bolton;Gérard Roland

  • Active labor market policies, job matching and the Czech miracle

    Tito Boeri;Tito Boeri;Michael C. Burda;Michael C. Burda

  • TOTAL WORK, GENDER AND SOCIAL NORMS

    Michael C. Burda;Daniel S. Hamermesh;Philippe Weil

  • A Note on Firing Costs and Severance Benefits in Equilibrium Unemployment

    Michael C. Burda

  • ‘Wait unemployment’ in Europe

    Michael Burda

  • Mediating the transition : labour markets in Central and Eastern Europe

    Tito Boeri;Michael C. Burda;János Köllő;Lorand Ambrus-Lakatos

  • Makroekonomia : podręcznik europejski

    Michael Burda;Charles Wyplosz

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel S. Hamermesh
Daniel S. Hamermesh The University of Texas at Austin
Tito Boeri
Tito Boeri Bocconi University
Charles Wyplosz
Charles Wyplosz Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Daniele Checchi
Daniele Checchi University of Milan
Alison L. Booth
Alison L. Booth Australian National University
Lars Calmfors
Lars Calmfors Research Institute of Industrial Economics
Jelle Visser
Jelle Visser University of Amsterdam
Gert G. Wagner
Gert G. Wagner German Institute for Economic Research
Richard B. Freeman
Richard B. Freeman Harvard University
Juergen von Hagen
Juergen von Hagen University of Bonn

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