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Checchi, Daniele; García-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Vivian, Lara - 2022

, hours inequality is an important force, and that it has increased over the period under analysis. The elasticity of hours … with respect to wages has also played a key role, notably in the two continental economies. This elasticity used to be … potential factors behind the change in the elasticity, notably the role of trade and labour market institutions. …

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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...

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TBTs, firm organization and labour structure : the effect of technical barriers to trade on skills

Barba Navaretti, Giorgio; Fontagné, Lionel; Orefice, … - 2019

Trade shocks in export markets may affect the employment composition and the organization of exporting firms. In particular, the imposition of new technological standards in destination markets may force exporters to adjust the firm's organization to comply and cope with the additional...

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Labor demand in the past, present and future

Graetz, Georg - 2020

Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, technological change has led to the automation of existing tasks and the creation of new ones, as well as the reallocation of labor across occupations and industries. These processes have been costly to individual workers, but labor demand has...

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Skill premiums and the supply of young workers in Germany

Glitz, Albrecht; Wissmann, Daniel - 2017

imply an elasticity of substitution between young and old workers of about 8, between medium- and low-skilled workers of 4 …

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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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Racing with or against the machine? : evidence from Europe

Gregory, Terry; Salomons, Anna; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2018

A fast-growing literature shows that digital technologies are displacing labor from routine tasks, raising concerns that labor is racing against the machine. We develop a task-based framework to estimate the aggregate labor demand and employment effects of routine-replacing technological change...

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Exporting and labor demand : micro-level evidence from Germany

Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Sieglich, Sebastian - 2014

provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich … extensive margins significantly increases the (absolute value of the) unconditional own-wage labor demand elasticity. This is … not only true for the average worker, but also for different skill groups. For the median firm, the elasticity is three …

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TBTs, firm organization and labour structure

Barba Navaretti, Giorgio; Fontagné, Lionel; Orefice, … - 2020

This paper investigates the effects on firms’ occupational structure of shocks induced by the introduction of Technical Barriers to Trade (TBTs) in importing countries. We rely on the Specific Trade Concern (STC) data released by the WTO to identify trade-restrictive TBT measures, combined...

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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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