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Effect of Past Coworkers on Job Search Evidence from Austria
Weynandt, Michèle; Saygin, Perihan; Weber, Andrea - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
This paper evaluates the strength of information flow from employed past coworkers on the re-employment duration of displaced workers due to plant closures in Austria. Using the Austrian Social Security Database (a matched employer-employee database) we exploit the panel structure of 36 years of...
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The Impact of Managerial Change on Performance. The Role of Team Heterogeneity
Mühlheußer, Gerd; Sliwka, Dirk; Hentschel, Sandra - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
When a key responsibility of a manager is to allocate more or less attractive tasks to subordinates, these subordinates have an incentive to work hard and demonstrate their talents. As a new manager is less well acquainted with these talents this incentive mechanism is reinvigorated after a...
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Tax Losses and Firm Investment: Evidence from Tax Statistics
Walch, Florian; Dwenger, Nadja - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2011
The elasticity of business capital to changes in its user cost is central to the economic analysis of fiscal policies. As a major component, the user cost of capital includes a firm's marginal tax rate. Due to the asymmetric treatment of tax losses and profits, the marginal tax rate can depart...
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Thumbscrews for Agencies or Individuals? How to reduce unemployment
Launov, Andrey; Wälde, Klaus - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014
To which extent does an increase in effectiveness of a public employment agency on the one hand and a reduction of unemployment benefits on the other reduce unemployment? Using the recent labour market reform in Germany we find that an improved agency explains substantial part of the observed...
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Cash-on-Hand and the Duration of Job Search: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Norway.
Basten, Christoph; Fagereng, Andreas; Telle, Kjetil - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2012
We identify the causal effect of lump-sum severance payments on non-employment duration in Norway by exploiting a discontinuity in eligibility at age 50. We find that a severance payment worth 1.2 months' earnings at the median lowers the fraction re-employed after a year by six percentage...
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Conditional Patterns of Unemployment Dynamics in Germany
Nordmeier, Daniela; Weber, Enzo - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
identify a technology shock and two policy shocks by using standard restrictions. Interestingly, the worker reallocation … process varies substantially with the identified shocks. The job finding rate plays a larger role after a technology shock and … a monetary policy shock, while the separation rate appears as the dominant margin after a fiscal policy shock …
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Wage posting or wage bargaining? Evidence from the employers side
Gartner, Hermann; Brenzel, Hanna; Schnabel, Claus - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
Using a representative establishment dataset, this paper analyzes the incidence of wage posting and wage bargaining in the matching process. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German labor market, with about two-thirds of hirings being characterized by wage posting....
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Employment Adjustment in German Firms
Jung, Sven - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
. Furthermore, they are asymmetric with dismissal costs exceeding hiring costs. An analysis of firms' adjustment in the period 1996 …
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Employment Effects of Local Business Taxes
Siegloch, Sebastian - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014
This is the first paper to thoroughly investigate the employment effects of corporate taxation. Higher taxes are theoretically shown to have a negative impact on employment through reduced investments, if labor is regionally mobile. I test this prediction by exploiting the specific setting of...
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Sharing the burden? Empirical evidence on corporate tax incidence
Dwenger, Nadja; Rattenhuber, Pia; Steiner, Viktor - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
This study empirically investigates the direct incidence of the corporate income tax through wage bargaining, using an industry-region level panel data set on all corporations in Germany over the period 1998 to 2006. Our measure of direct incidence for the first time accounts for employment...
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