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The role of aggregate preferences for labor supply - evidence from low-paid employment
Haywood, Luke; Neumann, Michael - 2017
workers' preferences because firms cater their job offers to aggregate preferences in the market. We estimate an equilibrium … responses: Workers who would work anyway are hurt by subsidies benefiting groups who enter the market as a result of tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631080
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What makes an employer?
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2019
As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important to better understand which variables influence the first hiring decision and which ones influence the subsequent survival as an employer. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140764
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Labor supply under participation and hours constraints: An extended structural model for policy evaluations
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Neumann, Michael; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2018
The paper extends a static discrete-choice labor supply model by adding participation and hours constraints. We identify restrictions by survey information on the eligibility and search activities of individuals as well as actual and desired hours. This provides for a more robust identification...
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Long - Term Effects of Unpaid Overtime: Evidence for West Germany
Pannenberg, Markus - 2002
overtime in West Germany. A descriptive analysis suggests that over a 10-year period workers with unpaid overtime experience on … average at least a 10 percentage points higher increase in real labor earnings than their co-workers. Applying panel data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260801
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The Impact of Child and Maternal Health Indicators on Female Labor Force Participation after Childbirth: Evidence for Germany
Dunkelberg, Annalena; Spieß, Christa Katharina - 2007
This paper analyzes the influence of children's health and mothers' physical and mental wellbeing on female labor force participation after childbirth in Germany. Our analysis uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study, which enables us to measure children?s health based on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260914
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What makes an entrepreneur and does it pay? Native men, Turks, and other migrants in Germany
Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Constant, … - 2003
This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324207
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'Marginal Employment' and the Demand for Heterogenous Labour: Empirical Evidence from a Multi-Factor Labour Demand Model for Germany
Freier, Ronny; Steiner, Viktor - 2007
non-standard types of employment such as marginal employment. The model is estimated for both the number of workers and … total working hours using a new panel data set. For unskilled and skilled workers in full-time employment, we find labour … marginal employment range between -.4 (number of male workers in west Germany) to -1 (working hours for women). We illustrate …
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Marginal employment: Stepping stone or dead end? Evaluating the German experience
Freier, Ronny; Steiner, Viktor - 2007
negative cumulative earnings effect for older workers in west Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324249
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Would a flat tax stimulate entrepreneurship in Germany? A behavioural microsimulation analysis allowing for risk
Fossen, Frank M. - 2008
When possible income tax reforms are debated, the suspected impact on entrepreneurship is often used as an argument in favour or against a certain policy. Quantitative ex-ante evaluations of the effect of certain tax reform options on entrepreneurship based on microeconometric research have not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324255
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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; Lehmann, Hartmut; Schaffer, Mark E. - 2008
1998 and the resulting change in external labor market conditions affect the wages and the welfare of workers inside a firm … and of a fall in workers' outside options after the financial crisis and cuts real wages. Earnings are curbed most for …
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