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Benefit Duration and Unemployment Entry: Quasi-experimental Evidence for Austria

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper studies the impact of a selective extension of unemployment benefit duration on the incidence of unemployment in Austria. As the new law applies only to elderly workers in certain regions of the country after June 1988, a quasi-experimental situation is created. Unemployment entry is...

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Potential Unemployment Benefit Duration and Spell Length: Lessons from a Quasi-experiment in Austria

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

The paper studies the effect of potential unemployment benefit duration on the length of unemployment spells in Austria. It takes advantage of a quasi-experimental situation, where potential benefit duration was extended in 1988 for elderly workers living in specific regions of the country. The...

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Immigration and the Earnings of Young Native Workers

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

the wage rates of natives: within a two-tier wage system more outsiders create additional rents which can be shared among …

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Are Austrian Returns to Education Falling Over Time?

Fersterer, Josef; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

In this paper we make a systematic presentation of returns to education in Austria for the period 1981-1997. We use consistent cross-sections from the Mikrozensus and find falling returns over time. These falling returns are not caused by changes in the sample design and reduced willingness to...

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Mentoring and Segregation: Female-Led Firms and Gender Wage Policies

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

share of females reducing the wage level. These results are compatible with a theory where job promotion is an important … factor of wage increases: if more females are to be mentored, less promotion slots are available for males, but also the …

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East European Trade and the Austrian Labour Market

Aiginger, Karl; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

possible between different segments of the labour market, we concentrate on unemployment experience and wage growth for a panel … of individual workers in Austrian industry. The results show rather small employment effects, the impact on wage growth …

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Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria: Evidence from Failed Firms

Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of schooling. However, there is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and...

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A Meta-Analysis of the International Gender Wage Gap

Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Since the early seventies, hundreds of authors have calculated gender wage differentials between women and men of equal … productivity. Consequently, estimates for the gender wage gap have been published for the most diverse countries at different … points in time. This meta-study provides a quantitative review of this vast amount of empirical literature on gender wage …

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Lower and Upper Bounds of Returns to Schooling: An Exercise in IV estimation with Different Instruments

Ichino, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

Several recent studies based on 'exogenous' sources of variation in education outcomes show Instrumental Variables (IV) estimates of returns to schooling that are substantially higher than the corresponding Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) estimates. Card (1995a) suggests that these results can be...

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The Long-Run Educational Cost of World War II: An Example of Local Average Treatment Effect Estimation

Ichino, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

An important component of the long-run cost of a war is the loss of human capital, suffered by children of schooling age who receive less education because of the war. This paper shows that in the European countries involved in World War II, children who were ten years old during the conflict...

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