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The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective
Brown, Alessio J.G. - 2014
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that...
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Flexicurity - Labour Market Performance in Denmark
Andersen, Torben M.; Svarer, Michael - 2021
Unemployment is at a low and stable level in Denmark. This achievement is often attributed to the so-called flexicurity model combining flexible hiring and firing rules for employers with income security for employees. Whatever virtues this model may have, a low and stable unemployment rate is...
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The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis - CESifo - 2014
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms’ job offer and workers’ job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877633
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Flexicurity – Labour Market Performance in Denmark
Andersen, Torben; Svarer, Michael - CESifo - 2007
Unemployment is at a low and stable level in Denmark. This achievement is often attributed to the so-called flexicurity model combining flexible hiring and firing rules for employers with income security for employees. Whatever virtues this model may have, a low and stable unemployment rate is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765697
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From Excess to Shortage - Recent Developments in the Danish Labour Market
Andersen, Torben - CESifo - 2003
The Danish labour market has undergone a remarkable change during the 1990s with a reduction of the unemployment rate from about 12 per cent in 1993 to less than 6 per cent at the turn of the century. This reflects both a turn in the business cycle but also structural changes related to shifts...
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Dissatisfied with Life, but Having a Good Day : Time-Use and Well-Being of the Unemployed
Knabe, Andreas - 2009
We apply the Day Reconstruction Method to compare unemployed and employed people with respect to their subjective assessment of emotional affects, differences in the composition and duration of activities during the course of a day, and their self-reported life satisfaction. Employed persons are...
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Scarring or Scaring? The Psychological Impact of Past Unemployment and Future Unemployment Risk
Knabe, Andreas - 2008
We reassess the quot;scarringquot; hypothesis by Clark et al. (2001), which states that unemployment experienced in the past reduces a person's current life satisfaction even after the person has become reemployed. Our results suggest that the scar from past unemployment operates via worsened...
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Boon or Bane? Others' Unemployment, Well-Being and Job Insecurity
Clark, Andrew; Knabe, Andreas; Raetzel, Steffen - 2021
The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the well-being of the employed, but has a far smaller effect on the unemployed. We use German panel data to reproduce this standard result, but then suggest that the appropriate distinction may not be between employment...
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Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany
Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2021
This paper estimates the incidence of corporate taxes on wages using a 20-year panel of German municipalities exploiting 6,800 tax changes for identification. Using event study designs and differences-in-differences models, we find that workers bear about half of the total tax burden....
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What Explains the Rise in CEO Pay in Germany? A Panal Data Analysis for 1977-2009
Fabbri, Francesca - 2012
The compensation of executive board members in Germany has become a highly controversial topic since Vodafone's hostile … unique panel data evidence of the 500 largest firms in Germany in the period 1977-2009 we test two prominent hypothesis in … manager power hypothesis for Germany as executives tend to be rewarded when the sector is doing well rather than the firm they …
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