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The minimum wage affects them all : evidence on employment spillovers in the roofing sector

Aretz, Bodo; Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry - 2012

This paper contributes to the sparse literature on employment spillovers on minimum wages by exploiting the minimum wage introduction and subsequent increases in the German roofing sector that gave rise to an internationally unprecedented hard bite of a minimum wage. We look at the chances of...

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Computers as stepping stones? : technological change and equality of labor market opportunities

Arntz, Melanie; Lipowski, Cäcilia; Neidhöfer, Guido; … - 2022

This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labor market opportunities by decreasing returns to parental background. We find that in Germany during the 1990s, computerization improved the access to technologyadopting occupations for workers with low-educated parents,...

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Computers as stepping stones? : technological change and equality of labor market opportunities

Arntz, Melanie; Lipowski, Cäcilia; Neidhöfer, Guido; … - 2022

This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labor market opportunities by decreasing returns to parental background. We find that in Germany during the 1990s, computerization improved the access to technology adopting occupations for workers with low-educated parents,...

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De-routinization in the fourth industrial revolution : firm-level evidence

Arntz, Melanie; Genz, Sabrina; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, … - 2024

This paper examines the extent to which aggregate-level de-routinization can be attributed to firm-level technology adoption during the most recent technological expansion. We use administrative data and a novel firm survey to distinguish frontier technologies from older technologies. We find...

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Are we yet sick of new technologies? : the unequal health effects of digitalization

Arntz, Melanie; Findeisen, Sebastian; Maurer, Stephan; … - 2024

This study quantifies the relationship between workplace digitalization, i.e., the increasing use of frontier technologies, and workers’ health outcomes using novel and representative German linked employer-employee data. Based on changes in individual-level use of technologies between 2011...

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Unemployment duration in Germany : individual and regional determinants of local job finding, migration and subsidized employment

Arntz, Melanie (contributor); Wilke, Ralf A. (contributor) - 2006

Recent labor market reforms in Germany aim, among other things, at reducing unemployment by restricting passive … unemployment measures, emphasizing local labor market policies and re-structuring public employment services. This paper uses … contribute to the shortening of unemployment duration. For this purpose, we estimate a semi-parametric duration model with three …

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Bounds analysis of competing risks : a nonparametric evaluation of the effect of unemployment benefits on imigration in Germany

Arntz, Melanie (contributor); Lo, Simon M. S. (contributor); … - 2007

dependent competing risks. We apply our framework to empirically evaluate the effect of unemployment benefits on observed … migration of unemployed workers in Germany. Our findings weakly indicate that reducing the entitlement length for unemployment …

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The geographical mobility of unemployed workers : evidence from West Germany

Arntz, Melanie (contributor) - 2005

Using a competing-risk framework of exiting unemployment to jobs in a local or a distant labor market area, this paper …

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Regionenmatching im Rahmen der Evaluation der Experimentierungsklausel des § 6c SGB II : methodische Vorgehensweise und Ergebnisse

Arntz, Melanie (contributor); Wilke, Ralf A. (contributor); … - 2006

Wir führen ein Regionenmatching durch, welches für alle Kreise in Deutschland die nächsten Nachbarn bestimmt, die ähnliche regionale Rahmenbedingungen für die Länge individueller Arbeitslosigkeitsphasen der SGB II Zielgruppe aufweisen. Die Analysen basieren auf umfangreichen...

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Digitalization and the future of work : macroeconomic consequences

Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2019

technological unemployment. This chapter discusses how new digital technologies might affect the labor market in the near future …

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