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Benefit entitlement and the labor market : evidence from a large-scale policy change
Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2002
for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409442
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Market externalities of large unemployment insurance extension programs
Lalive, Rafael; Landais, Camille; Zweimüller, Josef - 2013
program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189830
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Parental leave and children's schooling outcomes : quasi-experimental evidence from a large parental leave reform
Danzer, Natalia; Lavy, Victor - 2013
-in-difference approaches, this paper exploits an unanticipated reform in Austria which extended the maximum duration of paid and job protected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010211450
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Price effects of the Austrian fuel price fixing act : a synthetic control study
Becker, Maike; Pfeifer, Gregor; Schweikert, Karsten - 2021
whether they indeed help lower the overall fuel price level is unclear. In this paper, we study the effect of Austria's Fuel … estimate Austria's price trends in absence of the intervention. Our empirical results suggest, that immediately after the Fuel … prices appears to be less pronounced and amounts to 6.6% lower prices. Austria’s fuel price regulation seems to have been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012415508
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Designing instrument packages for the low-carbon transition : an evaluation framework with an application to Austria
Van der Werf, Edwin; Vollebergh, Herman R. J.; Vogel, … - 2021
commercial (buildings) sector in an ambitious country, Austria. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597829
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Parental leave, (in)formal childcare and long-term child outcomes
Danzer, Natalia; Halla, Martin; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2017
a large and generous parental leave extension in Austria exploiting a sharp birthday cutoff-based discontinuity in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011659414
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Exchange rate uncertainty and labour market adjustment under fixed and flexible exchange rates
Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - 2002
The standard literature on working time has modelled the decisions of firms in a deterministic framework in which firms can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we follow the real options approach, which allows us to investigate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541121
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Working time and employment under uncertainty
Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - 2002
The standard literature on working time has modelled the decisions of firms in a deterministic framework in which firms can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we consider the impact of uncertainty and real options on the decision of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409991
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Do working hours affect health? : evidence from statutory workweek regulations in Germany
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Wunder, Christoph - 2018
This study estimates the causal effect of working hours on health. We deal with the endogeneity of working hours through instrumental variables techniques. In particular, we exploit exogenous variation in working hours from statutory workweek regulations in the German public sector as an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011863622
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Low skill but high volatility?
Buch, Claudia M.; Pierdzioch, Christian - 2009
Globalization may impose a double-burden on low-skilled workers. On the one hand, the relative supply of low-skilled labor increases. This suppresses wages of low-skilled workers and/or increases their unemployment rates. On the other hand, low-skilled workers typically face more limited access...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850520