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Job displacement, remarriage, and marital sorting

Foerster, Hanno; Obermeier, Tim; Schulz, Bastian - 2024

We investigate how job displacement affects whom men marry and study implications for marriage market matching theory … if matched with low-earning women and to re-match with higher earning women. We use a general search and matching model … substitutes rather than complements in the marriage market; (ii) our findings are hard to reconcile with one-dimensional matching …

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Skill mismatch and the costs of job displacement

Neffke, Frank; Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Wiederhold, Simon - 2022

When workers are displaced from their jobs in mass layoffs or firm closures, they experience lasting adverse labor market consequences. We study how these consequences vary with the amount of skill mismatch that workers experience when returning to the labor market. Using novel measures of skill...

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Employing the unemployed of Marienthal : evaluation of a guaranteed job program

Kasy, Maximilian; Lehner, Lukas - 2023

We evaluate a guaranteed job program launched in 2020 in Austria. Our evaluation is based on three approaches, pairwise matched randomization, a pre-registered synthetic control at the municipality level, and a comparison to individuals in control municipalities. This allows us to estimate...

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Spatial search

Cai, Xiaoming; Gautier, Pieter; Wolthoff, Ronald - 2024

when locations are similar (in which case the aggregate matching function is urn-ball) but that quality weighted trade can …

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Families' career investments and firms’ promotion decisions

Almar, Frederik; Friedrich, Benjamin; Reynoso, Ana; … - 2025

This paper studies how family and firm investments interact to explain gender gaps in career achievement. Using Danish administrative data, we first document novel evidence of this interaction through a “spousal effect” on firm-side career investments. This effect is accounted for by family...

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Persistence and cyclical dependence in the monthly Euribor rate

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2011

This paper analyses two well-known features of interest rates, namely their time dependence and their cyclical structure. Specifically, it focuses on the monthly Euribor rate, using monthly data from January 1994 to May 2011. Models based on fractional integration at the long run or zero...

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Wage inequality in Germany : disentangling demand and supply effects

Stimmelmayr, Michael - 2009

In this paper we conduct a counterfactual analysis and estimate the quantitative importance of demand and supply effects on wage inequality in Germany using a dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the Auerbach-Kotlikoff (1987) type. Specifically, the methodological contribution...

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Labor market externalities of pre-retirement employment protection

Chrostek, Pawel; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michał - 2024

Using population-level administrative data, we study labor market externalities stemming from age-specific employment protection legislation (EPL) targeted towards older workers. Our results show no economically meaningful overall effects of the EPL on employment or earnings of either men or...

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Refugee benefit cuts

Dustmann, Christian; Landersø, Rasmus; Andersen, Lars … - 2023

This paper analyzes the effects of Denmark's Start Aid welfare reform that targets refugees. Implemented in 2002, it enables us to study not only the reform's immediate effects, but also its longer-term consequences, and its repeal a decade later. The reform-induced large transfer cuts led to an...

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Iceland's natural experiment in education reform

Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir; Gísli Gylfason; Gylfi Zoega - 2022

We use a change in Iceland’s education system as a natural experiment to measure the effect of years spent in upper secondary school on subsequent first year outcomes at university. The duration of Iceland´s upper-secondary education was shortened by one year through compression of the...

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