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Reassessing the Wage Penalty for Temps in Germany
Jahn, Elke J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
As a consequence of the rapid growth of temporary agency employment in Germany, the debate on the poor working …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703061
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Kurzarbeit: Sinnvoller Konjunkturpuffer oder verlängertes Arbeitslosengeld?
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Angesichts der gegenwärtigen Rezession hat die Politik in Deutschland die Leistungen der Kurzarbeit ausgeweitet, indem … Unternehmens verantwortlich sind, behindert das Instrument eine nachhaltige Arbeitsmarktpolitik. Zur Vermeidung von …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615425
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You Don't Always Get What You Pay For
Schnedler, Wendelin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Consider a principal-agent relationship in which more effort by the agent raises the likelihood of success. Does rewarding success, i.e., paying a bonus, increase effort in this case? I find that bonuses have not only an incentive but also an income effect. Overall, bonuses paid for success may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762122
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Estimating the Effect of Student Aid on College Enrollment: Evidence from a Government Grant Policy Reform
Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Sørensen, Torben; Taber, Christopher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Danish reform. We separately identify the effect of aid from that of other observed and unobserved variables such as parental … income. We exploit the combination of a kinked aid scheme and a reform of the student aid scheme to identify the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233780
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Institutional Reforms and Educational Attainment in Europe: A Long Run Perspective
Braga, Michela; Checchi, Daniele; Meschi, Elena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In this paper we analyse the effects of changes in the institutional design of the educational system on school attainment. In particular, we test whether alternative reforms have increased the average educational attainment of the population and whether various deciles of the education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395442
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Incarceration and Crime: Evidence from California's Public Safety Realignment Reform
Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
local crime rates. We assess the effects of a recent reform in California that caused a sharp and permanent reduction in the … state's incarceration rate. We exploit the large variation across California counties in the effect of this reform on county …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010726721
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Understanding the Contributions of Reallocation to Productivity Growth: Lessons from a Comparative Firm-Level Analysis
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … observed in market economies. Early in transition, faster reform is associated with larger contributions from reallocation, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822646
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Reform Redux: Measurement, Determinants and Reversals
Campos, Nauro F.; Horváth, Roman - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We construct objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries … studies and find that the macroeconomic effects of reform (when measured objectively) tend to be larger and more precisely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822778
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Maximum Fee vs. Child Benefit: A Welfare Analysis of Swedish Child-Care Fee Reform
Brink, Anna; Nordblom, Katarina; Wahlberg, Roger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762208
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Youth Unemployment in Korea: From a German and Transitional Labour Market Point of View
Schmid, Günther - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
’ youth labour force was unemployed compared to 21.4 percent in EU-27 in 2011. Germany, with a youth unemployment rate of 8 … unemployment rate of adults aged 45 to 54; in Germany, this figure is only 1.7. Further peculiarities come up if unemployment is … times of recession. The main part is devoted to possible lessons for Korea from Europe, in particular from Germany. Dual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884388