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Inequality and income dynamics in Germany

Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Peichl, Andreas; Schmieder, Johannes - 2022

lower tail. We further document substantial gender differences in average earnings and inequality over the life-cycle. While …

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Minimum Wages in Kenya

Andalon, Mabel; Pagés, Carmen - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

as well as in terms of their implications for wages and employment. Our findings based on the 1998/99 labor force data …

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War and Science in Ukraine

Ganguli, Ina; Waldinger, Fabian - 2023

We discuss the impacts of the Russian invasion on Ukrainian science. Using newly collected data, we show that the war has already had significant effects on science in Ukraine: research papers produced by Ukrainian scientists declined by about 10%, approximately 5% of the most prolific...

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Measuring Science: Performance Metrics and the Allocation of Talent

Hager, Sebastian; Schwarz, Carlo; Waldinger, Fabian - 2023

We study how performance metrics affect the allocation of talent. We exploit the introduction of a new measure of scientific performance: citation metrics. For technical reasons, the first citation database only covered citations from certain journals and years. Thus, only a subset of citations...

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Do Employment Subsidies Work? Evidence from Regionally Targeted Subsidies in Turkey

Betcherman, Gordon; Daysal, N. Meltem; Pagés, Carmen - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper studies the effects on registered employment, earnings, and number of registered establishments of two … employment subsidy schemes in Turkey. We implement a difference-in-differences methodology to construct appropriate …

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Are All Labor Regulations Equal? Evidence from Indian Manufacturing

Ahsan, Ahmad; Pagés, Carmen - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

laws: employment protection and labor dispute resolution legislation. We find that laws that increase employment protection … or the cost of labor disputes substantially reduce registered sector employment and output. These laws do no seem to … as textiles, are the hardest hit by amendments that increase employment protection while capital-intensive industries are …

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