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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs

Muysken, Joan - 2000

The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market … has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply … to an increased relative skill demand which is not matched by the skill supply and therefore mis-match unemployment …

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Does pay transparency affect the gender wage gap? : evidence from Austria

Gulyas, Andreas; Seitz, Sebastian; Sinha, Sourav - 2021

We study the 2011 Austrian Pay Transparency Law, which requires firms above a size threshold to publish internal reports on the gender pay gap. Using an event-study design, we show that the policy had no discernible effects on male and female wages, thus leaving the gender wage gap unchanged....

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Minimum wages and the rise in solo self-employment

Ganserer, Angelika; Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2022

Solo self-employment is on the rise despite less favorable working conditions compared to traditional jobs. We show that the introduction of minimum wages in German industries led to an increase in the share of solo self-employment by up to 8.5 percentage points. We explain our findings within a...

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Dismissal protection and long-term sickness absence : first evidence from Germany

Gürtzgen, Nicole; Hiesinger, Karolin - 2020

indicate that the reform did not alter the probability of involuntary unemployment after sickness. …

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Mandated sick pay : coverage, utilization, and welfare effects

Maclean, Catherine; Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2021

This paper evaluates how sick pay mandates operate at the job level in the United States. Using the National Compensation Survey and difference-in-differences models, we estimate their impact on coverage rates, sick leave use, labor costs, and non-mandated fringe benefits. Sick pay mandates...

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Effects of subsidizing the firstemployee - Empirical evidence from Finland

Nivala, Annika - 2019

This paper studies the effects of a first employee wage subsidy imple-mented in parts of Finland in 2007â 2011 using the universe of Finnishfirms. The subsidy, amounting to 30% of the wage costs of the firstemployee in the first year and 15% in the second, was targeted to en-trepreneurs without...

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Anticipatory effects of curriculum tracking

Koerselman, Kristian - 2009

Curriculum tracking, the separation of secondary school students into academic and vocational tracks, correlates positively with pretracking achievement in both British and international data. I argue that this correlation is caused by the incentives emanating from the track placement decision....

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When the minimum wage really bites hard : impact on top earners and skill supply

Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020

We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum...

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Minimum wages and poverty

Addison, John T. - 1998

The principal justification for minimum wage legislation resides in improving the economic condition of low-wage workers. Most previous analyses of the distributional effects of minimum wages have been confined to simulation exercises employing rather restrictive assumptions that guarantee the...

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Income support, (un-)employment and well-being

Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; Wolf, Tobias - 2016

analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …

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