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Employment Effects of Payroll Tax Subsidies
Collischon, Matthias; Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2018
This paper exploits several reforms of wage subsidies in the framework of the German Minijob program to investigate substitution and complementarity relationships between subsidized and non-subsidized labor demand. We apply an instrumental variables approach and use administrative data on German...
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Location choice and employment decisions : a comparison of German and Swedish multinationals
Becker, Sascha; Ekholm, Karolina; Jaeckle, Robert; … - 2005
Using data for German and Swedish multinational enterprises (MNEs), this paper assesses international employment patterns. It analyzes determinants of location choice and the degree of substitutability of labor across locations. Countries with highly skilled labor forces attract German MNEs, but...
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Labor Market Externalities of Pre-Retirement Employment Protection
Chrostek, Pawel; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michal - 2024
Using population-level administrative data, we study labor market externalities stemming from age-specific employment protection legislation (EPL) targeted towards older workers. Our results show no economically meaningful overall effects of the EPL on employment or earnings of either men or...
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Automation and Employment over the Technology Life Cycle: Evidence from European Regions
Jaccoud, Florencia; Petit, Fabien; Ciarli, Tommaso; … - 2024
This paper examines the labor market implications of investment in automation over the life cycle of ICT and robot … effects within phases of the technology life cycle. We also find that the negative impact of ICT investment on employment is …
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Can the Labor Demand Curve Explain Job Polarization?
Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin - 2022
a skill- and a novel task-based division of the workforce, our elasticity estimates show that supply shifts from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013353411
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Trade Adjustment: Worker Level Evidence
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; Song, Jae - 2014
adjustment costs that are highly unevenly distributed across workers according to their skill levels and conditions of employment …
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Wage and employment determination in volatile times: Sweden 1913-1939
Holmlund, Bertil - 2012
The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s. This period includes the boom and bust cycle of the early 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The events of the early 1920s are particularly intriguing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281933
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Can the Labor Demand Curve Explain Job Polarization?
Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin - 2022
a skill- and a novel task-based division of the workforce, our elasticity estimates show that supply shifts from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082161
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Skill Premiums and the Supply of Young Workers in Germany
Glitz, Albrecht; Wissmann, Daniel - 2017
In this paper, we study the development and underlying drivers of skill premiums in Germany between 1980 and 2008. We … show that the significant increase in the medium to low skill wage premiums since the late 1980s was almost exclusively … explain these patterns. Our model predicts the observed differential evolution of skill premiums very well. The estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698743
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Do Digital Skill Certificates Help New Workers Enter the Market? Evidence from an Online Labour Platform
Kässi, Otto; Lehdonvirta, Vili - 2019
We study the effects of a voluntary skill certification scheme in an online freelancing labour market. We show that … obtaining skill certificates increases freelancers’ earnings. This effect is not driven by increased freelancer productivity but … selection to completing skill certificates, which suggests that the freelancers who complete more skill certificates are in a …
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