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Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021

We provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, i.e., worker representation in firms’ governance and management. We cover the institution’s history, implementation, and the best available evidence on its economic impacts. We argue that existing quasi-experimental estimates suggest...

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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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Voice at Work

Harju, Jarkko; Jäger, Simon; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2021

We estimate the effects of worker voice on job quality and separations. We leverage the 1991 introduction of worker representation on boards of Finnish firms with at least 150 employees. In contrast to exit-voice theory, our difference-in-differences design reveals no effects on voluntary job...

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Picture this : Social Distance and the Mistreatment of Migrant Workers

Barsbai, Toman; Bartoš, Vojtěch; Licuanan, Victoria; … - 2023

employers. Encouraging DWs to show their employers a family photo while providing a small gift when starting employment reduced …

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Trade Liberalization and Working Conditions

Alvarez, Bastien; Orefice, Gianluca; Toubal, Farid - 2025

wages, which may reflect firms' ability to expand employment without raising pay due to labor supply elasticity and …

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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 … with endogenous job search effort and vacancy posting, multiple employment levels, a progressive tax-transfer system, and …, hours worked and output without reducing employment. In frictional labor markets, however, reallocation takes time whenever …

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Institutional Reforms and an Incredible Rise in Old Age Employment

Riphahn, Regina T. - 2019

behind the recent incredible rise in old age employment in Germany …

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Naturalization and Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in Germany

Riphahn, Regina T. - 2018

Naturalization may be a relevant policy instrument affecting immigrant integration in host-country labor markets. We study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental...

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Occupation, Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality

Böhm, Michael - 2019

This paper studies the relationship between changes in occupational employment, occupational wages, and rising overall … leading explanations for occupational employment changes, price and employment growth are positively related. Strong … counteracting skill changes along the lines of our new empirical fact explain why occupational wages are unrelated to employment …

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Enterprise Zones, Poverty, and Labor Market Outcomes : Resolving Conflicting Evidence

Neumark, David - 2019

This paper revisits an important analysis of enterprise zones (EZs) by Ham, Swenson, İmrohoroğlu, and Song (2011), who report substantial poverty reductions from state and federal EZs, as well as improvements in other labor market outcomes. In our re-analysis, we find that a data error...

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