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Price effects of minimum wages: Evidence from the construction sector in East and West Germany

Werner, Thomas; Sell, Friedrich L.; Reinisch, David C. - Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und … - 2013

In this paper, the authors present a new approach to estimate the impact of a minimum wage on the labor market of the construction sector in Germany. Instead of estimating the effect on employment, the authors focus on the change of prices on a firm level in order to differentiate between a...

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WORRIED SICK? WORKER RESPONSES TO ORGANIZATIONAL TURMOIL

Bratberg, Espen; Monstad, Karin - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2012

Sickness absence has risen over the past years in Norway. One explanation put forward is that a tougher labor market represents a health hazard, while a competing hypothesis predicts that loss of job security works as a disciplinary device. In this analysis we aim to trace a causal impact of...

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“Never on a Sunday”: Economic Incentives and Sick Leave in Sweden

Andrén, Daniela - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2004

ending of sickness spells. The 1991 reform, which reduced the replacement rate, had a stronger effect on reducing the … duration of short-term absences than the 1987 reform, which restricted the payment of sickness cash benefit to only scheduled …

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Maximum fee vs child benefit: A welfare analysis of Swedish child-care fee reform

Brink, Anna; Nordblom, Katarina; Wahlberg, Roger - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2007

The effects of a recent Swedish child-care fee reform are compared with those of an alternative reform, increased child … benefits. The fee reform implied considerably decreased fees and was intended to increase both labor supply among parents and … aversion, the alternative reform would have been preferable to the implemented fee reform. <p> …

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How do Beveridge and Phillips curves in the euro area behave under the stress of the world economic crisis?

Sell, Friedrich L.; Reinisch, David C. - Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und … - 2013

In this paper, the authors present a new concept of the 'modified output gap' based on the New Keynesian Phillips curve and on the Beveridge curve. In the first part of the paper, both mentioned curves are derived analytically. In doing so, we identify key parameters for the shift of the...

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Austerity Measures and Infant Health. Lessons from an Unexpected Wage Cut Policy

Bejenariu, Simona; Mitrut, Andreea - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

We investigate the effects on health at birth of a shock generated by a major (25%) and unexpected wage cut austerity measure that affected all public sector employees in Romania in 2010. Our findings suggest an overall improvement in health at birth for boys exposed to the shock in early...

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Income Effects from Labor Market Training Programs in Sweden During the 80’s and 90’s

Andrén, Thomas; Gustafsson, Björn - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2002

Swedish labor market programs appear large from an international perspective, yet their consequences are not fully investigated and understood. In this paper we estimate a switching regression model with training effect modeled as a random coefficient, partitioned in an observed and unobserved...

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Assessing the Employment Effects of Labor Market Training Programs in Sweden

Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2002

Several studies have examined the effects of training programs on employment. Most of them assume that the effects of training are constant for all potential trainees. We use an econometric framework that allows studying the heterogeneous training effects on discrete outcomes. The treatment...

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ASSESSING THE EMPLOYMENT EFFECTS OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING USING A ONE-FACTOR MODEL

Andrén, Thomas; Andrén, Daniela - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2004

Matching estimators use observed variables to adjust for differences between groups to eliminate sample selection bias. When minimum relevant information is not available, matching estimates are biased. If access to data on usually unobserved factors that determine the selection process is...

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Employment protection and unemployment benefits: on technology adoption and job creation in a matching model

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Straume, Odd Rune; Vagstad, Steinar - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2012

We analyse the effects of different labour market policies — employment protection, unemployment benefits and payroll taxes — on job creation and technology choices in a model where firms are randomly matched with workers of different productivity and wages are determined by ex-post...

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