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Active labor market programs: Employment gain or fiscal drain?

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Koettl, Johannes - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-36

This paper provides a new perspective by classifying active labor market programs (ALMPs) depending on their objectives, relevance and cost-effectiveness during normal times, a crisis and recovery. We distinguish ALMPs providing incentives for retaining employment, incentives for creating...

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Crimea and punishment: the impact of sanctions on Russian economy and economies of the euro area

Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Netšunajev, Aleksei - In: Baltic Journal of Economics 19 (2019) 1, pp. 39-51

sanctions on each other, including the euro zone members. The paper investigates the impact of the sanctions on the real side of … the economies of Russia and the euro area. The effects of sanctions are analyzed with a structural vector autoregression …. To pin down the effect we are interested in, we include an index that measures the intensity of the sanctions in the …

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Crimea and punishment: The impact of sanctions on Russian economy and economies of the euro area

Kholodilin, Konstantin; Netšunajev, Aleksei - In: Baltic Journal of Economics 19 (2019) 1, pp. 39-51

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No milk for the bear: the impact on the Baltic states of Russia's counter-sanctions

Oja, Kaspar - In: Baltic Journal of Economics 15 (2015) 1, pp. 38-49

Union as a countermeasure to sanctions introduced by the EU and several other countries after Russia's actions in Ukraine … and the annexation of Crimea. This paper assesses the effect of Russia's counter-sanctions on the economies of the Baltic … problems in international trade data due to re-exports. The amount of trade affected by Russia's counter-sanctions varies …

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Training and minimum wages: First evidence from the introduction of the minimum wage in Germany

Bellmann, Lutz; Bossler, Mario; Gerner, Hans-Dieter; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 6 (2017) 8, pp. 1-22

We analyze the short-run impact of the introduction of the new statutory minimum wage in Germany on further training at the workplace level. Applying difference-in-difference methods to data from the IAB Establishment Panel, we do not find a reduction in the training incidence but a slight...

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Deserving poor and the desirability of a minimum wage

Blumkin, Tomer; Danziger, Leif - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 7 (2018) 6, pp. 1-17

This paper provides a normative justification for the use of a minimum wage as a redistributive tool in a competitive labor market. We show that a government interested in improving the wellbeing of the deserving poor, while being less concerned with their undeserving counterparts, can use a...

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Minimum wages and employment retention: A microeconometric study for Estonia

Ferraro, Simona; Hänilane, Birgit; Stæhr, Karsten - In: Baltic Journal of Economics 18 (2018) 1, pp. 51-67

This paper assesses the effect of increases in the Estonian minimum wage in 2013-2016 on the probability of workers at different wage levels retaining employment. The effect is identified by comparing the probability of workers remaining employed after increases in the minimum wage in 2013-2016...

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Do low minimum wages disserve workers? A case study of the Czech and Slovak Republics

Fialová, Kamila; Mysíková, Martina - In: Baltic Journal of Economics 21 (2021) 1, pp. 43-59

This article analyses the effects of minimum wage on employment in the Czech and Slovak Republics based on 2005-17 EU-SILC data. Our results contribute to the scant literature on minimum wage effects in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region. While prior empirical findings concurred with...

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Minimum wages in monopsonistic labor markets

Corella, Luis Felipe Munguia - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 9 (2020) 7, pp. 1-28

Over the last 30 years, researchers have disputed the mixed evidence of the effect of the minimum wage on teenage employment in the United States. Whenever the minimum wage has positive or no effects on employment, they appeal to monopsony models to explain their results. However, very few of...

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