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The long-term earnings' effects of a credit market disruption

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; De Philippis, Marta; Sette, Enrico - 2023

This paper studies the long-term consequences on firms and workers of the credit crunch triggered by the 2007-2008 global financial crisis. Relying on a unique matched bank-employer-employee administrative dataset, we construct a firm-specific credit supply shock and examine firms’ and...

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Monetary policy and unemployment in open economies

Engler, Philipp - 2011

After an expansionary monetary policy shock employment increases and unemployment falls. In standard New Keynesian … models the fall in aggregate unemployment does not affect employed workers at all. However, Lüchinger, Meier and Stutzer … (2010) found that the risk of unemployment negatively affects utility of employed workers: An increases in aggregate …

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Public works for Poland? : active labour market policies during transition

Puhani, Patrick A.; Steiner, Viktor - 1996

Following the predominance of macroeconomic stabilisation policies and passive income support schemes in the first phase of transition, active labour market policies (ALMPs) have now come to play a more important role in transition economies. This paper looks at the Polish experience and...

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Labor market reforms, precautionary savings, and global imbalances

Hochmuth, Brigitte; Moyen, Stephane; Stähler, Nikolai - 2019

reducing the generosity of unemployment benefits decreases wages, fosters employment and augments competitiveness as well as …

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The Introduction of a Short-Term Earnings-Related Parental Leave Benefit System and Differential Employment Effects

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2010

German family policy underwent a reform in 2007, when the new instrument of "Elterngeld" replaced the previous "Erziehungsgeld". The transfer programs differ in various dimensions. We study the effects on the labor supply of young mothers, by comparing behavior before and after the reform. We...

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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration: The Case of Occupations

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - 2011

Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...

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Minimum wages and the rise in solo self-employment

Ganserer, Angelika; Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2022

Solo self-employment is on the rise despite less favorable working conditions compared to traditional jobs. We show that the introduction of minimum wages in German industries led to an increase in the share of solo self-employment by up to 8.5 percentage points. We explain our findings within a...

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Direct, spillover and welfare effects of regional firm subsidies

Siegloch, Sebastian; Wehrhöfer, Nils; Etzel, Tobias - 2021

We analyze the effects of a large place-based policy, subsidizing up to 50% of investment costs of manufacturing firms in East Germany after reunification. We show that a 1-percentage-point decrease in the subsidy rate leads to a 1% decrease in manufacturing employment. We document important...

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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration: The Case of Occupations

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

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Are we yet sick of new technologies? : the unequal health effects of digitalization

Arntz, Melanie; Findeisen, Sebastian; Maurer, Stephan; … - 2024

This study quantifies the relationship between workplace digitalization, i.e., the increasing use of frontier technologies, and workers’ health outcomes using novel and representative German linked employer-employee data. Based on changes in individual-level use of technologies between 2011...

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