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persistent employment and wage losses in regions where such occupations decline the most. Regional and occupational mobility …
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Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment …
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downgraded employment, and of children to drop-out from education. While effects are stronger among vulnerable households …
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This paper studies the long-term consequences on firms and workers of the credit crunch triggered by the 2007-2008 global financial crisis. Relying on a unique matched bank-employer-employee administrative dataset, we construct a firm-specific credit supply shock and examine firms’ and...
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Public spending (i.e., “G”) enables governments to fulfill their fiscal policies. This paper takes a micro perspective and quantifies the impact of procurement spending - a specific component of G - on firm survival. We find that firms that receive public contracts survive longer, ceteris...
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This paper analyses financial incentives to work in Finland from three perspectives. First, the financial incentives to work are quantified i.e. the participation tax rate (PTR) levels are calculated with numerous classifications. Second, a question of how different parts of the tax and social...
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This paper considers whether a replacement rate cut can be income equality enhancing and with what conditions. The logical answer to the question is yes, if the propensity of moving from low income state to high income state is high enough. The main contribution of this paper is to derive an...
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Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to reduce work incentives for lower income classes and to increase durations of unemployment. Standard studies measure work incentives based on annual income concepts. This paper analyzes how work...
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losing self-employment is an even more harmful life event than losing dependent employment. Monetary and non-monetary reasons … seem to account for the difference between the two types of work. Moreover, it originates from the process of losing self-employment … and the consequences of unemployment rather than from advantages of self-employment. …
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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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