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Fiscal federalism and financial resources for regional development - co-operative and competitive models : the international experience - an example for Russia?

Seidel, Bernhard; Schrooten, Mechthild - 2000

In Western economies, the concrete design of fiscal federalism is determined by the status the federation grants to regionally comparable economic and social conditions, and to what extent this status is anchored in the constitution. If the political and social acceptance of regional differences...

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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … the transition rate into work and that such accepted jobs go along with lower wages. We also find a positive effect of a …

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Too rich to do the dirty work? : wealth effects on the demand for good jobs

Haywood, Luke - 2014

Jobs offer different wages and different non-monetary working conditions. This paper investigates how the demand for non-monetary aspects evolves over changing wealth levels. Wages do not perfectly compensate individuals for differential utility of jobs in a labour market with informational...

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The impact of selection into the labor force on the gender wage gap

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Boboshko, Nikolai; … - 2021 - Preliminary draft

We study the impact of selection bias on estimates of the gender pay gap, focusing on whether the gender pay gap has fallen since 1981. Previous research has found divergent results across techniques, identification strategies, data sets, and time periods. Using Michigan Panel Study of Income...

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Selection into employment and the gender wage gap across the distribution and over time

Gallego Granados, Patricia; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2019

Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution and over time (1990-2014), while controlling for changing sample selection into full-time employment. Our findings show that the selection-corrected gender wage gap is much larger than the one...

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The part-time wage gap across the wage distribution

Gallego Granados, Patricia - 2019

Part-time work has vastly expanded in most OECD labor markets during the last decades. At the same time, full- and part-time wages have grown increasingly apart, leading to a substantial raw part-time wage penalty. Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the female part-time wage...

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Youth unemployment : individual risk factors and institutional determinants : a case study of Germany and the United Kingdom

Isengard, Bettina - 2002

This study deals with youth unemployment trends in Europe since the mid of the 80ths in general and regards individual … countries shows that the individual risk of (long-term) unemployment is not equally high for all young people, but rather … increasing problems of youth unemployment with the active labour market programs 'JUMP' and 'New Deal for Young People' which are …

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Unobservable, but unimportant? : the influence of personality traits (and other usually unobserved variables) for the evaluation of labor market policies

Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Mitnik, Oscar A. - 2014

unemployment in Germany, as well as several usually unobserved characteristics like personality traits, attitudes, expectations …

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"Making Work Pay" in a rationed labour market: the mini-job reform in Germany

Bargain, Olivier; Caliendo, Marco; Haan, Peter; Orsini, … - 2005

To tackle mass unemployment and increase participation rates, the German government over recent years has mainly … usually ignore involuntary unemployment. This leads to biased estimates of labour supply elasticities and erroneous … unemployment. In this analysis we evaluate the employment effects of the Mini-Job reform by controlling for involuntary …

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Do regions with entrepreneurial neighbors perform better? : A spatial econometric approach for German regions

Pijnenburg, Katharina; Cholodilin, Konstantin Arkadʹevič - 2011

We use a neoclassical production function to analyze the effects of knowledge spillovers via entrepreneurship on economic performance of 337 German districts. To take the spatial dependence structure of the data into account, we estimate a spatial Durbin model. We highlight the importance of the...

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