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Do Generous Parental Leave Policies Help Top Female Earners?
Corekcioglu, Gozde - 2020
Generous government-mandated parental leave is generally viewed as an effective policy to support women’s careers around childbirth. But does it help women to reach top positions in the upper pay echelon of their firms? Using longitudinal employer-employee matched data for the entire...
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Wage Effects of Employer-Mediated Transfers
Garriga, Santiago; Tortarolo, Dario - 2021
reform in Argentina that shifted the disbursement responsibility of child benefits from employers to a government agency in a …. Our evidence suggests that employers capture about 6-14 percent of the transfers through lower wages when they mediate the … and employers exploited this confusion to extract rents. Our findings therefore accord with the hypothesis that transfers …
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Wage Effects of Employer-Mediated Transfers
Garriga, Santiago; Tortarolo, Dario - 2021
reform in Argentina that shifted the disbursement responsibility of child benefits from employers to a government agency in a …. Our evidence suggests that employers capture about 6-14 percent of the transfers through lower wages when they mediate the … and employers exploited this confusion to extract rents. Our findings therefore accord with the hypothesis that transfers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219073
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Dual Labour Markets Revisited
Bentolila, Samuel; Dolado, Juan Jose; Jimeno, Juan F. - 2019
This paper provides an overview of recent research on dual labour markets. Theoretical and empirical contributions on the labour-market effects of dual employment protection legislation are revisited, as well as factors behind its resilience and policies geared towards correcting its negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018170
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The Impact of Hiring Costs for Skilled Workers on Apprenticeship Training: A Comparative Study
Aepli, Manuel; Muehlemann, Samuel; Pfeifer, Harald; … - 2024
This study analyzes the relationship between firms' costs of hiring skilled workers and their provision of internal apprenticeship training. Our empirical analysis draws on four waves of firm surveys conducted in Germany and Switzerland that include detailed information on firms' hiring costs...
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Dual Labour Markets Revisited
Bentolila, Samuel - 2019
This paper provides an overview of recent research on dual labour markets. Theoretical and empirical contributions on the labour-market effects of dual employment protection legislation are revisited, as well as factors behind its resilience and policies geared towards correcting its negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892106
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A continuous theory of income insurance
Lindbeck, Assar; Persson, Mats - 2010
In this paper we treat an individual's health as a continuous variable, in contrast to the traditional literature on income insurance, where it is regularly treated as a binary variable. This is not a minor technical matter; in fact, a continuous treatment of an individual's health sheds new...
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A model of income insurance and social norms
Lindbeck, Assar; Persson, Mats - 2006
A large literature on ex ante moral hazard in income insurance emphasizes that the individual can affect the probability of an income loss by choice of lifestyle and hence, the degree of risk-taking. The much smaller literature on moral hazard ex post mainly analyzes how a ?moral hazard...
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The turnaround of the Swedish economy: lessons from large business sector reforms
Heyman, Fredrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2019
How can a country improve the productivity growth in its business sector and reach its growth potential? Sweden during the 1970–2010 period can serve as an example to help other countries understand how to efficiently reform a business sector. In the 1990s, Sweden implemented a reform package...
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When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage Market Value of Young Men
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2018
We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage, fertility and children’s living circumstances during...
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