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The subminimum wage reform in Greece and the labour-labour substitution hypothesis

Kakoulidou, Theano; Konstantinou, Panagiotis; Moutos, Thomas - 2018

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 policy drivers of self-employment : new evidence from Europe

Mourougane, Annabelle; Égert, Balázs; Baker, Mark; … - 2020

Using cross-country time series panel regressions for the last two decades, this paper seeks to identify the main policy and institutional factors that explain the share of self-employment across European countries. It looks at the aggregate share of self-employed as well as its breakdown by...

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The right man for the job

Teulings, Coen N.; Gautier, Pieter - 2001

This paper describes a search model with a continuum of workerand job types, transferable utility and an increasing returns to scale contact technology. We apply a second order Taylor expansion to characterize the equilibrium. One third of theincreasing returns in contacts are absorbed by firms...

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Robots, marriageable men, family, and fertility

Anelli, Massimo; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2021

Robots have radically changed the demand for skills and the role of workers in production. This phenomenon has replaced routine and mostly physical work of blue collar workers, but it has also created positive employment spillovers in other occupations and sectors that require more social...

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How does working-time flexibility affect workers' productivity in a routine job? : evidence from a field experiment

Boltz, Marie; Cockx, Bart; Diaz Escobar, Ana Maria; … - 2020

We conducted an experiment in which we hired workers under different types of contracts to evaluate how flexible working time affects on-the-job productivity in a routine job. Our approach breaks down the global impact on productivity into sorting and behavioral effects. We find that all forms...

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Do digital skill certificates help new workers enter the market? : evidence from an online labour platform

Kässi, Otto; Lehdonvirta, Vili - 2019

We study the effects of a voluntary skill certification scheme in an online freelancing labour market. We show that obtaining skill certificates increases freelancers' earnings. This effect is not driven by increased freelancer productivity but by decreased employer uncertainty. The increase in...

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The turnaround of the Swedish economy : lessons from large business sector reforms

Heyman, Fredrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2019

the 1970–2010 period can serve as an example to help other countries understand how to efficiently reform a business … sector. In the 1990s, Sweden implemented a reform package that ignited a successful reorganization of a business sector that … restructuring literature and then examine the reform package using Swedish matched plant-firm-worker data. The removal of barriers …

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Occupation growth, skill prices, and wage inequality

Böhm, Michael; Gaudecker, Hans-Martin von; Schran, Felix - 2019

This paper studies the relationship between changes in occupational employment, occupational wages, and rising overall wage inequality. Using long-running administrative panel data with detailed occupation codes, we first document that in all occupations, entrants and leavers earn lower wages...

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When work disappears : manufacturing decline and the falling marriage market value of young men

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2018

We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage, fertility and children's living circumstances during...

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Employment effects of payroll tax subsidies

Collischon, Matthias; Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2018

This paper exploits several reforms of wage subsidies in the framework of the German Minijob program to investigate substitution and complementarity relationships between subsidized and non-subsidized labor demand. We apply an instrumental variables approach and use administrative data on German...

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