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that the payroll tax cut generates long-lasting growth in female employment, reduces the time spent on welfare, and spurs … business growth, without crowding out male employment. By contrast, the tax cut does not raise net wages, suggesting that tax … labor and tackle the gender employment gap, but they are not sufficient for reducing the gender pay gap …
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This study analyses the 2004 Eastern Enlargement to the European Union to obtain evidence on the employment effects of … initial establishment productivity with employment changes over a long panel from 1995 to 2009. The estimates show that the … Enlargement had a negative effect on establishment-level employment growth, which is driven by increased worker separations and …
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development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …
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a dynamic treatment approach to estimate the effect of having the first child now versus later on future employment for … very strong negative employment effects after childbirth. Although the employment loss is reduced over the first five years … following childbirth, it does not level off to zero. The employment loss is lower for mothers with a university degree. It is …
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A new algorithm for clustering life course trajectories is presented and tested with large register data. Life courses are represented as sequences on a monthly timescale for the working-life with an age span from 16–65. A meaningful clustering result for this kind of data provides interesting...
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, we investigate the employment effects of innovations over the business cycle. Our analysis employs a large data set of …. (2014), our empirical analysis reveals four important findings: First, the net effect of product innovation on employment … demand losses from old products by demand gains of new products to a substantial degree. As a result their net employment …
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The shift of employment from lower to higher productive firms is an important driver for structural change and industry … dynamics. We investigate this reallocation in terms of employment gains and losses from innovation. New employment created by … product innovation may be offset by employment losses in related products, known as 'cannibalisation' or 'business stealing …
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analyses of a uniform minimum wage. The model with worker and firm heterogeneity does not restrict the sign of employment … opportunity cost of employment. …
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a breakdown of production and employment followed by a slow recovery starting in 1992. In this paper, a macroeconometric … model is used to assess this development. In particular, estimation results for investment and employment adjustment after … this paper to cover also unified Germany. The results reveal that the adjustment of investment and employment can be …
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