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establishments (0-9 employees), subsidized Minijob employment comprises large shares of the work force, on average over 40 percent …. For these establishments, robust evidence shows that increasing the subsidization of Minijob employment crowds out non …-subsidized employment. Our results imply that Minijob employment in 2014 may have eliminated more than 0.5 million unsubsidized employment …
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, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and …
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, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …
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We develop a model that allows for public goods and status signaling through charitable contributions. This model provides a unified framework in which contributions are driven both by altruism and status signaling. We use this setup to re-examine the conventional practice of rendering a...
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employment in Sweden in the beginning of the 1970's. Simulations suggest that employment among married women would have been 10 …
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Using data for German and Swedish multinational enterprises (MNEs), this paper assesses international employment … country, affiliate employment tends to substitute for employment at the parent firm. On the margin, substitutability is the … strongest with respect to affiliate employment in Western Europe. A one percent larger wage gap between Germany and locations in …
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The extent to which firms respond to labor supply shocks has important implications for local and national economies. We exploit firm-level panel data on product and process innovation activities in the United Kingdom and find that the large, low-skill labor supply (immigration) shock generated...
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away from employment opportunities and thus lowers their employment prospects. The paper discusses the implications of …
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The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and …
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for total foreign employment but also for the 35 most important migration countries to Germany. Based on a total census …
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