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The Reservation Wage of Unemployed Persons in the Federal Republic of Germany : Theory and Empirical Tests
Franz, Wolfgang - 1980
This study examines the determinants of the reservation wage of unemployed persons in the Federal Republic of Germany …
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The Labor Market Effects of Introducing National Health Insurance : Evidence from Canada
Gruber, Jonathan - 1993
provinces. We examine monthly data on employment, wages, and hours across 8 industries and 10 provinces over the 1961- 1975 … period. We find that employment actually rose after the introduction of NHI; wages increased as well, while average hours …
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The Causal Effect of Unemployment Duration on Wages : Evidence from Unemployment Insurance Extensions
Schmieder, Johannes - 2013
paper shows that UI extensions at age thresholds reduced reemployment wages of job searchers in Germany. The UI extensions …This paper provides quasi-experimental estimates of the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Using … standard job search theory, the paper derives and tests conditions on reemployment wages under which Unemployment Insurance (UI …
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Reservation Raises : The Aggregate Labor Supply Curve at the Extensive Margin
Mui, Preston; Schoefer, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We measure extensive-margin labor supply (employment) preferences in two representative surveys of the U.S. and German populations. We elicit reservation raises: the percent wage change that renders a given individual indifferent between employment and nonemployment. It is equal to her...
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How Does Job-Protected Maternity Leave Affect Mothers' Employment and Infant Health?
Baker, Michael - 2005
Maternity leaves can affect mothers' and infants' welfare if they first affect the amount of time working women stay at home post birth. We provide new evidence of the labor supply effects of these leaves from an analysis of the introduction and expansion of job-protected maternity leave in...
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Cohort Patterns in Canadian Earnings : Assessing the Role of Skill Premia in Inequality Trends
Beaudry, Paul - 1997
This paper documents the pattern of change in age-earnings profiles across cohorts and evaluates its implications. Using synthetic cohorts from the Survey of Consumer Finances over the period 1971 to 1993, we show that the age-earning profiles of Canadian men have been deteriorating for more...
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Immigrant Employment and Earnings Growth in Canada and the U.S : Evidence from Longitudinal Data
Kaushal, Neeraj - 2015
We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories …
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Marriage Market and Labor Market Sorting
Calvo, Paula A.; Lindenlaub, Ilse; Reynoso, Ana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
's Germany and - by identifying important shifts in home production technology towards more complementarity - on the evolution of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585367
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Inheritance Taxation and Wealth Effects on the Labor Supply of Heirs
Kindermann, Fabian - 2018
The taxation of bequests can have a positive impact on the labor supply of heirs through wealth effects. This leads to an increase in future labor income tax revenue on top of direct bequest tax revenue. We first show in a theoretical model that a simple back-of-the-envelope calculation, based...
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Policy Uncertainty and Precautionary Savings
Giavazzi, Francesco - 2008
In 1997 Chancellor Kohl proposed a major pension reform and pushed the law through Parliament explaining that the German PAYG system had become unsustainable. One limitation of the new law -- one that is crucial for our identification strategy -- is that it left the generous pension entitlements...
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