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Labor Market Effects of a Minimum Wage : Evidence from Ecuadorian Monthly Administrative Data

Choi, Jaerim; Rivadeneyra, Ivan; Ramirez, Kenia - 2021

When Ecuador raised its monthly Unified Minimum Wage from $170 to $200 in 2008, it affected 35 percent of all private sector workers. We use this unexpected minimum wage hike under former president Rafael Correa to assess the labor market impacts of the minimum wage. We use an administrative...

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Taxing the Gender Gap : Labor Market Effects of a Payroll Tax Cut for Women in Italy

Rubolino, Enrico - 2022

This paper studies the labor market effects of a large employer-borne payroll tax cut for unemployed women, introduced in Italy since 2013. I combine social security data with several empirical approaches, leveraging the time-limited application of the tax scheme and discontinuities in...

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Labour Market Institutions and the Employment Intensity of Output Growth - An International Comparison

Rottmann, Horst; Flaig, Gebhard - 2021

This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on labour market performance. We analyse as an indicator for the labour intensity of output growth the employment threshold (the minimum growth rate of output necessary to keep employment constant). We show for a sample of 17 OECD...

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Effects of Innovation on Employment : A Dynamic Panel Analysis

Lachenmaier, Stefan; Rottmann, Horst - 2021

panel GMM system estimation we find positive effects of innovation on employment. This result is robust to the use of …

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Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Unemployed Youths—Beware of Spillovers

Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022

We use (donut) regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10...

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Working Time Reduction and Employment in a Finite World

Fagnart, Jean-François; Germain, Marc; Van der Linden, … - 2021

We study the consequences of a working time reduction (WTR hereafter) in a growth model with efficiency wages and an essential natural resource (natural capital). Considering that technical progress cannot reduce the resource content of final production to zero, we show that the effects of a WTR...

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Trust, Investment and Competition : Theory and Evidence from German Car Manufacturers

Calzolari, Giacomo - 2019

, we show that more trust in a relationship is associated with higher idiosyncratic investment by suppliers and better part … relationships involving higher trust, buyers are able to induce higher investment and more intense competition among suppliers - but …

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Investment Under Rational Inattention : Evidence from US Sectoral Data

Zorn, Peter - 2020

Macroeconomic and sector-specific shocks exert differential effects on investment in disaggregate sectoral data. The … monotonically. A calibrated model of investment with convex capital adjustment costs and rational inattention explains these … features of the data. The model matches the empirical responses of sectoral investment because learning about shocks generates …

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Product market competition, investment and employment-abundant versus job-poor growth : a real options perspective

Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - 2005

The role of product market reforms in achieving the objective of higher employment and growth has recently received much attention amongst academics. The aim of this paper is to analyse some of the channels through which cross-market effects come about and to assess their policy relevance. The...

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Policy Implications of Models of the Spread of Coronavirus : Perspectives and Opportunities for Economists

Avery, Christopher - 2020

influential in recent policy discussions. It notes potentially important features of the real- world environment that the standard …

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