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fiscal effects, labor market outcomes as well as distributional impacts the model allows for a comprehensive ex ante analysis …
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To assess the influence of nonstandard employment for the labor market participation of different demographic groups … consequences of flexible labor markets for the economic integration of different population groups, such as women, the elderly …
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technological unemployment. This chapter discusses how new digital technologies might affect the labor market in the near future … digitalization is likely to affect the German labor market in the next five years and derives implications for policy makers on how …
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Do investment programs create more jobs in tight or in slack labor markets? We study this question using data from a … across space, we find that photovoltaic installations created at least twice as many jobs in slack than in tight labor … investment, capital-labor substitution, or regional migration. This leaves crowding-out as the most plausible mechanism. …
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This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labor market opportunities by decreasing returns … parental backgrounds over this time period. Competing mechanisms, such as skill-specific labor supply shocks and skill …
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We examine the impact of labor market power on firms' adoption of automation technologies. We develop a model that … incorporates labor market power into the task-based theory of automation. We show that, due to higher marginal cost of labor … to industrial robots exhibit considerably larger reductions in both employment and wages when their labor markets …
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This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labor market opportunities by decreasing returns … parental backgrounds over this time period. Competing mechanisms, such as skill-specific labor supply shocks and skill …
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We study the extent of automation angst and its role for policy preferences, labor market choices and real donation … labor-market prospects. We find evidence that automation angst is strongly associated with people's trust in governments and …
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We analyze the evolution of the wage structure in East Germany over the past two decades and compare it to West Germany. Both regions experienced a rise in wage inequality between 1995 and 2009 with wage dispersion in East Germany exceeding West Germany, esp. at the top. We also show that wage...
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labor market there will exist hours restrictions for certain jobs and occupations. Therefore, I simulate Germans' working … hours in a more flexible but real world, namely the Dutch labor market. The results indicate that the average weekly working … hours of German employees would indeed decrease if they had a Dutch Labor market. Thus, there exists some potential for …
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