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The Role of Aggregate Preferences for Labor Supply : Evidence from Low-Paid Employment

Haywood, Luke - 2017

Labor supply in the market for low-paid jobs in Germany is strongly influenced by tax exemptions - even for individuals to whom these exemptions do not apply. We present compelling evidence that an individual's choice set depends on other workers' preferences because firms cater their job offers...

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How Robust are Simulated Employment Effects of a Legal Minimum Wage in Germany? : A Comparison of Different Data Sources and Assumptions

Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2009

Several empirical minimum wage studies have recently been published that simulate employment effects of a federal minimum wage in Germany. We disentangle various factors that explain the variation in previous simulation results. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the newly...

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Wage Policies of a Russian Firm and the Financial Crisis of 1998 : Evidence from Personnel Data - 1997 to 2002

Dohmen, Thomas J.; Lehmann, Hartmut; Schaffer, Mark E. - 2008

We use a rich personnel data set from a Russian firm for the years 1997 to 2002 to analyze how the financial crisis in 1998 and the resulting change in external labor market conditions affect the wages and the welfare of workers inside a firm. We provide evidence that large shocks to external...

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Employment Effects of a Sectoral Minimum Wage in Germany : Semi-Parametric Estimations from Cross-Sectional Data

Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2010

In this paper employment effects of a sectoral minimum wage in the German construction sector are estimated from a single cross-sectional wage distribution using parametric and semi-parametric models. Parametric functional form assumptions seem too restrictive and lead to implausible results. We...

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Businesswomen in Germany and Their Performance by Ethnicity : It Pays to Be Self-Employed

Constant, Amelie F. - 2009

In this paper I assert that the entrepreneurial spirit can also exist in salaried jobs. I study the determinants of wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried businesswomen - and investigate whether ethnicity is important in...

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Convergence in Institutions and Market Outcomes : Cross-Country and Time-Series Evidence from the Beeps Surveys in Transition Economies

Mitra, Pradeep - 2009

This paper uses the BEEPS firm-level data to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and how firms respond to the economic...

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Long Memory in the Ukrainian Stock Market

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2013

This paper examines the dynamics of stock prices in Ukraine by estimating the degree of persistence of the PFTS stock …

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The War in Europe : Economic Costs of the Ukrainian Conflict

Bluszcz, Julia - 2019

the Donbass region, Ukraine's productive core, has taken a severe toll on the country. Using cross-country panel data over … the period 1995-2017, this paper quantifies the short-term causal effects of the Donbass war on Ukraine's GDP. Results … from the counterfactual estimation by the synthetic control method show that Ukraine's per capita GDP foregone due to the …

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Coping with Consequences of a Housing Crisis During Great War : A Case of Right-Bank Ukraine in 1914-1918

Kholodilin, Konstantin A. - 2016

market freedom. In particular, the state began actively intervening in the housing market. Ukraine as a part of the former … eviction. This paper concentrates on the government intervention in the rental housing market of Right-Bank Ukraine during …

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The Weekend Effect : An Exploitable Anomaly in the Ukrainian Stock Market?

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2016

This paper provides some new empirical evidence on the weekend effect (one of the best known anomalies in financial markets) in Ukrainian futures prices. The analysis uses various statistical techniques (average analysis, Student's t-test, dummy variables, and fractional integration) to test for...

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