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The Employment Effects of a Pandemic Wage Subsidy
Smart, Michael; Kronberg, Matthew; Lesica, Josip; … - 2023
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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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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Employment and Reallocation Effects of Higher Minimum Wages
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz - 2023
This paper studies the employment and reallocation effects of minimum wages in Germany in a search-and-matching model … worker and firm heterogeneity. I find that minimum wages up to 70% of the median wage significantly increase productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356608
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Is the Notification of Monitoring a Threat to the Unemployed? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2021
In July 2004, the Belgian government intensified monitoring within the Unemployment Insurance scheme. Workers claiming unemployment benefits for more than 13 months are notified that past job-search behavior will be monitored 8 months later. In one region the target group is counselled shortly...
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The Econometrics and Economics of the Employment Effects of Minimum Wages : Getting from Known Unknowns to Known Knowns
Neumark, David - 2019
some insights from both theory and past evidence that may be informative about the effects of high minimum wages, and try …I discuss the econometrics and the economics of past research on the effects of minimum wages on employment in the … answer about the employment effects of minimum wages. My secondary goal is to discuss how we can narrow the range of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892198
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Labor Market Effects of a Minimum Wage : Evidence from Ecuadorian Monthly Administrative Data
Choi, Jaerim; Rivadeneyra, Ivan; Ramirez, Kenia - 2021
wage bin throughout the monthly wage distribution. We find that, after one month, wages increased by 17 to 37 percent for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235105
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Trade with Nominal Rigidities : Understanding the Unemployment and Welfare Effects of the China Shock
Rodriguez-Clare, Andres; Ulate, Mauricio; Vasquez, Jose P. - 2022
We present a dynamic quantitative trade and migration model that incorporates downward nominal wage rigidities and show how this framework can generate changes in unemployment and labor participation that match those uncovered by the empirical literature studying the “China shock.” We find...
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Labor in the Boardroom
Jäger, Simon - 2019
We estimate the effects of a mandate allocating a third of corporate board seats to workers (shared governance). We study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked it in for the older cohorts. In sharp contrast to the...
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Will Markets Provide Humane Jobs? A Hypothesis
Nekoei, Arash - 2022
Most of the key amenities of our today jobs did not emerge in private contracts; instead, they appeared in collective agreements and regulations. I argue that understanding this observation can guide the provision of future amenities. I show that markets underprovide an amenity if workers who...
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The exhaustion of unemployment benefits in Belgium : does it enhance the probability of employment?
Cockx, Bart Leo Wim; Ries, Jean - 2004
In Belgium unemployment insurance benefits can only exhaust for one category of workers: partners of workers with (replacement) labour income (mostly women) may loose their entitlement after an unemployment duration ranging from two to eight years, depending on individual characteristics. We...
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