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Reforms of an Early Retirement Pathway in Germany and Their Labor Market Effects

Riphahn, Regina T.; Schrader, Rebecca - 2022

We investigate the unemployment pathway to retirement in Germany and study the causal effects of two early retirement …

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Lost in Transition? Minimum Wage Effects on German Construction Workers

Bachmann, Ronald - 2012

well as the underlying labour market flows, at the establishment level. The fact that minimum wages in Germany are sector … accessions and separations rise in East Germany as a result of the minimum wage introduction. The evidence on detailed worker …-to-job transitions in East Germany, which can be explained by a more compressed wage distribution making on-the-job search less …

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

Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011

into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s …

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Labor Market Effects of US Sick Pay Mandates

Pichler, Stefan - 2016

This paper exploits temporal and spatial variation in the implementation of US sick pay mandates to assess their labor market consequences. We use the Synthetic Control Group Method (SCGM) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) to estimate the causal effect of mandated sick...

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Did the Hartz Reforms Speed-Up Job Creation? A Macro-Evaluation Using Empirical Matching Functions

Fahr, René - 2006

Starting in January 2003, Germany implemented the first two so-called Hartz reforms, followed by the third and fourth …

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Before and after the Hartz Reforms : The Performance of Active Labour Market Policy in Germany

Jacobi, Lena; Kluve, Jochen - 2021

Having faced high unemployment rates for more than a decade, the German government implemented a comprehensive set of labour market reforms during the period 2003-2005. This paper describes the economic and institutional context of the German labour market before and after these so-called Hartz...

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Labor Market Frictions and Spillover Effects from Publicly Announced Sectoral Minimum Wages

Demir, Gökay - 2023

This paper analyzes the spillover effects of the first sectoral minimum wage in Germany. Using a triple differences …

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Human Capital Externalities and Growth of High- and Low-Skilled Jobs

Südekum, Jens - 2006

In this paper I analyze the impact of human capital on local employment growth for the case of West Germany (1977 …

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Employment Cyclicality and Firm Quality

Kahn, Lisa - 2014

Who fares worse in an economic downturn, low- or high-paying firms? Different answers to this question imply very different consequences for the costs of recessions. Using U.S. employer-employee data, we find that employment growth at low-paying firms is less cyclically sensitive. High-paying...

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Cousins from Overseas : The Labour Market Impact of a Major Forced Return Migration Shock

Bohnet, Lara; Peralta, Susana; Santos, João Pereira dos - 2022

We study the labour market impact of the return of half a million Portuguese due to onset of the colonial war in 1974. Both the size and similarity with the native population (almost 80% were Portuguese-born) make this a unique shock. We use census data from 1960 and 1981 to document a decrease...

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