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Labor market sorting in Germany : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, April 2016
Lochner, Benjamin; Schulz, Bastian - 2016
This paper analyzes the allocation of workers to jobs and the wage distribution in Germany. Our main contribution is to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524613
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What hides behind the German labor market miracle? : unemployment insurance reforms and labor market dynamics
Hartung, Benjamin; Jung, Philip; Kuhn, Moritz - 2018
A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor market dynamics. We revisit this old question studying the German Hartz reforms. On average, lower separation rates explain 76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011936315
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Taxation and unemployment : an applied general equilibrium approach : presented at Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on Policy Analysis with Numerical Models, July 2004
Boehringer, Christoph; Boeters, Stefan; Feil, Michael - 2004
market regime, simulations for Germany show that labour tax policies can make only a small contribution to alleviating the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450719
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Labor market effects of economic integration : the impact of re-unification in German border regions
Büttner, Thiess; Rincke, Johannes - 2004
The paper argues that economic integration causes problems for the labor market of high-wage countries due to cross-border labor mobility and the accompanying increase in labor supply. Empirical evidence is provided from an analysis of regional labor market effects of German re-unification. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402446
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Wages and recruitment : evidence from external wage changes
Falch, Torberg - 2013
This paper estimates the causal effect of the wage on the recruitment rate at the establishment level. During the 1990s … schools with severe recruitment problems in the past and located in one specific region. The empirical approach exploits … for teachers. In a difference-in-differences framework, I find that the wage premium increased the recruitment rate by 6 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691689
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Labor market effects of a minimum wage : evidence from Ecuadorian monthly administrative data
Choi, Jaerim; Rivadeneyra, Ivan; Ramirez, Kenia - 2021
When Ecuador raised its monthly Unified Minimum Wage from $170 to $200 in 2008, it affected 35 percent of all private sector workers. We use this unexpected minimum wage hike under former president Rafael Correa to assess the labor market impacts of the minimum wage. We use an administrative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012495684
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A congestion theory of unemployment fluctuations
Mercan, Yusuf; Schoefer, Benjamin; Sedlácek, Petr - 2020
workers finding jobs expands. On net, unemployment rises only because even more workers lose their jobs. We propose a theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012373190
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The labor market impact of undocumented immigrants : job creation vs. job competition
Albert, Christoph - 2017
This paper explores the impact of undocumented as opposed to documented immigration in a model featuring search frictions and non-random hiring that is consistent with novel empirical evidence presented. In this framework, undocumented immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688026
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The effect of dispatch methods on a recruiting campaign for a business survey : evidence from Germany
Brandt, Przemyslaw; Demmelhuber, Katrin; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2020
ensure stability of participation rates, regular sample recruitment is indispensable. Does the dispatch method matter for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249212
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Boon or bane? : others' unemployment, well-being and job insecurity
Clark, Andrew E.; Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003805987