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On the Persistence of the China Shock
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2022
We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to 2019. The shock plateaued in 2010, enabling analysis of its effects for nearly a decade past its culmination. Adverse impacts of import competition on manufacturing employment,...
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The Effect of Pension Subsidies on the Retirement Timing of Older Women : Evidence from a Kink Design in Germany
Ye, Han - 2019
subsidy program for low-pay workers. The subsidies have a kinked relationship with the recipients' past contributions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012890153
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New Evidence on Long-Term Effects of Start-Up Subsidies : Matching Estimates and Their Robustness
Caliendo, Marco - 2019
The German start-up subsidy (SUS) program for the unemployed has recently undergone a major make-over, altering its institutional setup, adding an additional layer of selection and leading to ambiguous predictions of the program's effectiveness. Using propensity score matching (PSM) as our main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870229
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Do Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed Affect Participants' Well-Being? A Rigorous Look at (Un-)Intended Consequences of Labor Market Policies
Caliendo, Marco - 2019
We estimate the long-term effects of start-up subsidies (SUS) for the unemployed on subjective outcome indicators of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859296
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Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed : Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity
Caliendo, Marco - 2010
(ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed … creation schemes, or wage subsidies – the empirical evidence on the effectiveness of such schemes is still scarce; especially … long-run. Moreover, we consider effect heterogeneity with respect to several dimensions and show that start-up subsidies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147125
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Regional Effect Heterogeneity of Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed
Caliendo, Marco - 2013
Recent microeconometric evaluation studies have shown that start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are an … and survey data and observe participants in two distinct start-up programs in Germany for five years after start-up as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079733
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Turning Unemployment into Self-Employment : Effectiveness and Efficiency of Two Start-Up Programmes
Baumgartner, Hans J.; Caliendo, Marco - 2021
recent years. If effective, this would not only reduce Germany's persistently high unemployment rate, but also increase its … the unemployed into self-employment may prove to be among the most effective, both in Germany and elsewhere …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317179
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German Financial State Aid During COVID-19 Pandemic : Higher Impact Among Digitalized Self-Employed
Bertschek, Irene; Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022
In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a 50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244089
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The Employment Effects of Low-Wage Subsidies
Huttunen, Kristiina - 2010
Low-wage subsidies are often proposed as a solution to the unemployment problem among the low skilled. Yet the … empirical evidence on the effects of low-wage subsidies is surprisingly scarce. This paper examines the employment effects of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141786
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The German Manufacturing Sector is a Granular Economy
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
Using the approach suggested by Gabaix (Econometrica 2011) this paper demonstrates that idiosyncratic shocks in the largest firms are important for an understanding of aggregate volatility in German manufacturing industries. The implications of this finding for theoretical and empirical research...
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