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We estimate the causal effects of a pandemic-era wage subsidy program in Canada on job losses and business closures. Our estimates use administrative microdata and a regression discontinuity strategy to estimate the effects of marginal changes in the wage subsidy rate. The estimated net wage...
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This paper studies the labor market effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus on the Nordic countries which showed one of the highest variations in NPIs despite having similar community spread of COVID-19 at the onset of the pandemic: While...
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We use a repeated large-scale survey of households in the Nielsen Homescan panel to characterize how labor markets are being affected by the covid-19 pandemic. We document several facts. First, job loss has been significantly larger than implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million...
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COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study...
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Der Länderfinanzausgleich muss neu geregelt werden. Dabei schlagen vor allem die Zahlerländer vor, Berlin aus dem horizontalen Länderfinanzausgleich herauszunehmen und durch den Bund direkt zu finanzieren. Der Autor hält eine solche Sonderregelung für nicht begründbar. Er sieht hier auch...
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Die Übernahme deutscher Firmen durch ausländische Investoren und die allgemeine Präsenz derselben wird zwiespältig beurteilt: Auf der einen Seite werden Investitionen gefördert, um von Produktivitäts-Spillovern zu profitieren, andererseits wird befürchtet, dass es unter anderem zu einem...
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Die jüngst von Bayern und Hessen eingereichte Verfassungsbeschwerde gegen den bundesstaatlichen Finanzausgleich zielt im Kern auf die ungleiche Verteilung der Finanzierungslasten zwischen den Ländern im Rahmen des bestehenden Ausgleichssystems. Sollen die Finanzausgleichslasten umfassend...
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We present an applied general equilibrium modelling approach to analyse employment and unemployment effects of labour tax cuts in an economy where wages are determined through firm-union bargaining at the sectoral level. In such a labour market regime, simulations for Germany show that labour...
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This paper estimates the effect of innovation on employment at the firm level. Our uniquely long innovation panel data set of German manufacturing firms covers more than 20 years and allows us to use various innovation measures. We can distinguish between product and process innovations as well...
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