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The Effect of Firms' Partial Retirement Policies on the Labour Market Outcomes of their Employees

Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - CESifo - 2013

In this paper, we assess the impact of firms introducing part-time work schemes for gradual labour market exit of elderly workers on their employees’ labour market outcomes. The analysis is based on unique linked employer-employee data that combine high-quality survey and administrative data....

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Mitigating Liquidity Constraints: Public Export Credit Guarantees in Germany

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Heiland, Inga; Yalcin, Erdal - CESifo - 2012

. It employs a difference-in-differences strategy combined with a matching approach, to create an appropriate control group …

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Program Evaluation and Random Program Starts

Fredriksson, Peter; Johansson, Per - CESifo - 2003

This paper discusses the evaluation problem using observational data when the timing of treatment is an outcome of a stochastic process. We show that, without additional assumptions, it is not possible to estimate the average treatment effect and treatment on the treated. It is, however,...

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Endogenous Borders? The Effects of New Borders on Trade in Central Europe 1885-1933

Heinemeyer, Hans-Christian; Schulze, Max-Stephan; Wolf, … - CESifo - 2008

A large literature on “border effects” in the wake of McCallum (1995) documents the massive impact of borders on trade. However, all these studies suffer from an identification problem. “Border effects” are usually identified from cross-sectional variation alone. We do not know how trade...

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Seasonality in Smoking Behaviour: Re-evaluating the Effects of the 2005 Public Smoking Ban in Italy

Bono, Emilia Del; Grünberger, Klaus; Vuri, Daniela - CESifo - 2014

This paper investigates the impact of the public smoking ban which came into effect in Italy on January 2005 on individual smoking behaviour. Current empirical evidence supports the existence of a negative effect of the Italian ban on smoking prevalence and consumption in the general population....

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Grade Retention and Unobserved Heterogeneity

Gary-Bobo, Robert J.; Gousse, Marion; Robin, Jean-Marc - CESifo - 2014

We study the treatment effect of grade retention, using a panel of French junior highschool students, taking unobserved heterogeneity and the endogeneity of grade repetitions into account. We specify a multi-stage model of human-capital accumulation with a finite number of types representing...

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Pareto Improvement through Unilateral Matching of Public Good Contributions: The Role of Commitment

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Cornes, Richard; Peters, Wolfgang; … - CESifo - 2014

When providing public goods through voluntary contributions, a donor may introduce unilateral matching in order to … reduce underprovision of the public good and thus inefficiency. By itself, however, matching benefits the donor but harms the …

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Households, Markets and Public Choice

Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - CESifo - 2014

favorable conditions for matching on the one hand, and for global collective decisions on the other hand. We establish …

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Regional Equilibrium Unemployment Theory at the Age of the Internet

Lutgen, Vanessa; Linden, Bruno Van der - CESifo - 2015

This paper studies equilibrium unemployment in a two-region economy with matching frictions, where workers and jobs are …. Search-matching externalities are amplified by the latter possibility and by the fact that some workers can simultaneously … receive a job offer from each region. The rest of the framework builds upon Moretti (2011). Increasing the matching …

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Wages, Rents, Unemployment, and the Quality of Life

Wrede, Matthias - CESifo - 2012

Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the regional quality of …

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