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by behavioral adjustments yet which are of considerable importance to one’s quality of life: employment, earnings and …
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We analyze the impact of the UK national minimum wage (NMW) on the employment of young workers. The previous literature …, we find a significant and negative employment effect for male workers at 21, which we believe to be an anticipation … effect on employment of young workers, with this effect possibly occurring already well in advance of reaching the threshold …
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, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …
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We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers … differences in the employment behavior of East and West German mothers. German family policy sets incentives particularly for low … employment differences as East German women with low earnings potentials appear to adopt West German low employment patterns over …
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performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …
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This paper offers quasi experimental evidence of the existence of spillover effects of UI extensions using a unique program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non-eligible unemployed in treated regions, and a...
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This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local comparisons across a language barrier in Switzerland. This Röstigraben separates cultural groups, but neither labor markets nor political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the...
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Several studies have documented a strong correlation in the timing of spouses’ retirement decisions. However, considerably less is known about the causal impact of one spouse’s retirement incentives on the retirement decision of the other spouse. Before, but not after, 2001 broad categories...
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effects on earnings and full-time employment even when the child was no longer eligible for Cash-for-Care at ages four and … attached to the labor force through part-time employment. …
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What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low … of low-skilled workers, whereas it will decrease (increase) employment of high-skilled workers in CES utility function …
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