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Individualism vs. collectivism : how inherited cultural values affect labor market outcomes of second generation immigrants in the US
Höckel, Lisa Sofie - 2017
The labor market performance of second generation immigrants is a crucial determinant of integration. Labor market returns to their different cultural traits, however, have been rarely researched within the economic literature. This study provides insight on the link between the level of...
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Speaking the same language : the effect of foreign origin teachers on students' language skills
Höckel, Lisa Sofie - 2020
This study investigates whether foreign origin teachers causally affect their students language skills in secondary school. Exploring within-student variation in assignment to teachers, I find that teachers who are immigrants or descendants of immigrants significantly increase the reading...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257161
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Monopsonistic competition, low-wage labour markets, and minimum wages : an empirical analysis
Bachmann, Ronald; Frings, Hanna - 2015
This paper investigates the degree of monopsony power of employers in different industries against the background of a statutory minimum wage introduction in Germany in January 2015. A semi-structural estimation approach is employed based on a dynamic model of monopsonistic competition. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408479
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Labour market polarisation, job tasks and monopsony power
Bachmann, Ronald; Demir, Gökay; Frings, Hanna - 2020
Using a semi-structural approach based on a dynamic monopsony model, we examine to what extent workers performing different job tasks are exposed to different degrees of monopsony power, and whether these differences in monopsony power have changed over the last 30 years. We find that workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405643
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Indirect fiscal effects of long-term care insurance
Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; Korfhage, Thorben - 2015
Arbeitsangebot reduzieren, um auf die Doppelbelastung aus Pflege und Lohnarbeit zu reagieren. Dies führt zu geringeren …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381284
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The intensive and extensive margin of European labour supply
Frings, Hanna; Schaffner, Sandra - 2011
Das Arbeitsangebot wird grundsätzlich durch zwei Faktoren bestimmt: Die Partizipation am Arbeitsmarkt (extensives … Arbeitsangebot) und die Anzahl der gearbeiteten Stunden der Beschäftigten (intensives Arbeitsangebot). Auf Basis der … gesamte Arbeitsangebot ist. Die Ergebnisse deuten auf signifikante Unterschiede im Arbeitsangebot zwischen den Ländern hin …
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Optimal taxation of education with an initial endowment of human capital
Braun, Christoph - 2010
Bovenberg and Jacobs (2005) and Richter (2009) derive the education efficiency theorem: In a second-best optimum, the education decision is undistorted if the function expressing the stock of human capital features a constant elasticity with respect to education. I drop this assumption. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008933767
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Employment Effects of Welfare Reforms : Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Life-Cycle Model
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria L.; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2021
In this paper we develop a dynamic structural life-cycle model of labor supply behavior which fully accounts for the effect of income tax and transfers on labor supply incentives. Additionally, the model recognizes the demand side driven rationing risk that might prevent individuals from...
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