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Beware of the employer : financial incentives for employees may fail to prolong old age employment

Lorenz, Svenja; Pfister, Mona; Zwick, Thomas - 2020

This paper shows that increasing the normal retirement age and introducing pension deductions for retirement before normal retirement age in Germany did not prolong employment of older men. The reason for this surprising result is that employers encouraged their employees to use the bridge...

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Regional structural change and the effects of job loss

Arntz, Melanie; Ivanov, Boris; Pohlan, Laura - 2022

Routine-intensive occupations have been declining in many countries, but how does this affect individual workers’ careers if this decline is particularly severe in their local labor market? This paper uses administrative data from Germany and a matched difference-in-differences approach to...

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The impact of short- and long-term participation tax rates on labor supply

Bartels, Charlotte; Pestel, Nico - 2015

Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment. This paper investigates the importance of incentives inherent in the tax-benefit system for the individual decision to take up work. Using German microdata over the period...

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Job loss and household labor supply adjustments in developing countries : evidence from Argentina

Ciaschi, Matías; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2022

Using longitudinal data for Argentina, we estimate the labor supply reaction of spouses and children to their husband's or father's job loss. Our findings show that job loss by the household head has a positive and significant impact on the labor supply of other household members. However, it...

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Income in Jeopardy : how losing employment affects the willingness to take risks/ Clemens Hetschko; Malte Preuss

Hetschko, Clemens; Preuss, Malte - 2015

Using German panel data, we assess the causal effect of job loss, and thus of an extensive income shock, on risk attitude. In line with predictions of expected utility reasoning about absolute risk aversion, losing oneś job reduces the willingness to take risks. This effect strengthens in...

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Minimally Altruistic Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model

Rotemberg, Julio J. - 2010

This paper presents a model in which firms recruit both unemployed and employed workers by posting vacancies. Firms act monopsonistically and set wages to retain their existing workers as well as to attract new ones. The model differs from Burdett and Mortensen (1998) in that its assumptions...

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A Beveridge curve decomposition for Austria : what drives the unemployment rate?

Christl, Michael - 2019

stated that matching efficiency decreased. Using a new decomposition method, combined with detailed labour market flow data …, we are the first to disentangle supply-side, demand-side and matching factors, which could potentially cause a shift in … the shift in the Beveridge curve after 2014 was mainly caused by a decrease in matching efficiency, indicating a rising …

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On the misery of losing self-employment

Hetschko, Clemens - 2014

German panel data is used to show that the decrease in life satisfaction caused by an increase in the probability of losing work is higher when self-employed than when paid employed. Further estimations reveal that becoming unemployed reduces self-employed workers ́satisfaction considerably...

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The effect of unemployment insurance benefits on (self-)employment : two sides of the same coin?

Camarero Garcia, Sebastian; Hansch, Michelle - 2021

Although a meaningful percentage of firms are created out of unemployment and current active labor market policies in Europe often subsidize unemployed individuals to start their own businesses, little is known about the role of unemployment insurance (UI) generosity for selfemployment. By using...

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Unemployment benefit duration and startup success

Camarero Garcia, Sebastian; Murmann, Martin - 2020

Despite the importance of business creation for the economy and a relevant share of new firms being started out of unemployment, most research has focused on analyzing the effect of unemployment insurance (UI) policies on reemployment outcomes that ignore self-employment. In this paper, we...

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