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Seniority wages and the role of firms in retirement

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; … - 2015

In general, retirement is seen as a pure labor supply phenomenon, but firms can have strong incentives to send … expensive older workers into retirement. Based on the seniority wage model developed by Lazear (1979), we discuss steep … seniority wage profiles as incentives for firms to dismiss older workers before retirement. Conditional on individual retirement …

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Layoff tax and the employment of the elderly

Schnalzenberger, Mario; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2008

In 1996 Austria introduced a tax for the layoff of older workers, which was tightened in 2000. The regulation requires employers to pay a tax of up to 170 percent of the gross monthly income when they give notice to employees aged 50 or more. We use data from Austrian social security records to...

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Can animal spirits explain the dynamics of European unemployment?

Fève, Patrick - In: Recherches économiques de Louvain 62 (1996) 3, pp. 413-441

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Does the color of the collar matter? : firm specific human capital and post-displacement outcomes

Schwerdt, Guido; Ichino, Andrea; Ruf, Oliver; … - 2008

We investigate whether the costs of job displacement differ between blue collar and white collar workers. In the short run earnings and employment losses are substantial for both groups but stronger for white collar workers. In the long run, there are only weak effects for blue collar workers...

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Fertility and economic instability : the role of unemployment and job displacement

Del Bono, Emilia; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2011

signiffcantly below those of a control group, even after six years. -- fertility ; unemployment ; plant closings ; human capital …

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Great expectations: past wages and unemployment durations

Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2010

overly long unemployment durations. We examine the infuence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after … observed productivity. -- unemployment ; job search ; overconfidence …

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Why do students expect to stay longer in college? : evidence from Europe

Brunello, Giorgio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2002

market variables, such as unemployment, wage differentials and employment protection, and to the funding of tertiary …

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The health externalities of downsizing

Ahammer, Alexander; Grübl, Dominik; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2021

We show that downsizing has substantial externalities on the health of workers who remain in the firm. To this end, we study mass layoff (ML) survivors in Austria, using workers who survive a ML themselves, but a few years in the future, as a control group. Based on highquality administrative...

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Intergenerationl transmission of unemployment : causal evidence from Austria

Grübl, Dominik; Lackner, Mario; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2020

We estimate the causal effect of parents' unemployment on unemployment among their children in their own adulthood. We …) identification strategy using parents' job loss during a mass layoff as the instrument. We find evidence of unemployment inheritance … in the next generation. An additional day of unemployment during childhood causally raises the average unemployment days …

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How do automation and offshorability influence unemployment duration and subsequent job quality?

Schmidpeter, Bernhard; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2018

We analyze the effect of automation and offshorability on unemployment duration and postunemployment outcomes such as … wages and employment stability. Our rich administrative data allow us to evaluate the importance of providing unemployment …

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