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sector employment to estimate the local employment multiplier. We find that the introduction of one public sector employment … position increases private sector employment by one unit, primarily driven by the service sector. Consistent with existing … literature, we document that the effect of public employment on private employment is highly localized. In addition to changes in …
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We estimate the employment and labour force participation effects resulting from the abolition of the marital allowance … - a 10 percent mandatory top-up in the Minimum Wage (MW) for married individuals - in Greece in November 2012. Using data … from the Greek LFS over the period 2008:Q1-2016:Q1 we do not find any differential change in the probability of employment …
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We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid programme for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the German state of Bavaria in the years 2010 and 2011. Using matched difference-in-differences estimation strategies, we find that aided municipalities have - depending on broadband...
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employment and wage of natives. I use a modified shift-share instrument based on past settlements to claim causality. Employment … effects were driven by increased entries to employment, while wage effects were limited to natives that were already employed …
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context of the COVID-19 crisis in Germany. Employment responses differed widely across local labour markets, with differences … often adopted in regions with higher digital capital. But digital capital smoothed the employment shock beyond the effect of …
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The paper examines the effects of the age-differentiated decreases in the minimum wage which Greece implemented in 2012 … probit models and find that after the reform there was no statistically significant change in the differential employment …-sector employees of this group after the reform. Moreover, the reform had no significant differential impact on employment terminations …
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the appropriate distinction may not be between employment and unemployment, but rather between higher and lower levels of …
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This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local comparisons across a language barrier in Switzerland. This Röstigraben separates cultural groups, but neither labor markets nor political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the...
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