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households and firms. The extent to which this is associated with negative impacts on employment depends on the interrelationship …-skilled. Our estimates suggest that the announced increase of the EEG surcharge in 2014 would decrease overall employment in the …
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This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill … groups and between those of different age, taking account of the endogeneity of wages and employment. Compared to estimates …
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training programs, we find some indications that they experienced worse (or at best similar) employment outcomes than healthy …
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Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional … answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired … firming in recessions, while leaving hiring in booms unchanged. Thereby insider power reduces average employment. …
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among either men or women. Neither increases in employment or labor market attachment in the year following a household job …'s response to a household shock will enable households to respond more quickly to adverse employment events and limit the long …
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This paper describes IZAΨMOD, the policy microsimulation model of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). The model uses household microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and firm data from the German linked employer-employee dataset LIAB. IZAΨMOD consists of three components:...
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Firms' labor demand responses to wage changes are of key interest in empirical research and policy analysis. However, despite extensive research, estimates of labor demand elasticities remain subject to considerable heterogeneity. In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive meta-regression...
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It is widely believed that globalization increases the volatility of employment and decreases the bargaining power of …
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data covering all French firms, we find that the program has had a strong and rapid impact on employment. The net cost per … job created for the government was around zero. The employment effect was stronger in areas where recruitment was easier … estimate that a credit conditional on net job creation above the employment growth threshold of -1%, would have maximized job …
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We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … adjustment costs that are highly unevenly distributed across workers according to their skill levels and conditions of employment …
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