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Clash of Career and Family: Fertility Decisions after Job Displacement

Bono, Emilia Del; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2008

In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unex- pected career interruptions which occur as a … job displacement reduces average fertility by 5 to 10% in both the short and medium term (3 and 6 years) and that these e … that the reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises be- cause displaced …

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Fertility and Economic Instability: The Role of Unemployment and Job Displacement

Bono, Emilia Del; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2011

We study the effect of job displacement on fertility in a sample of white collar women in Austria. Using instrumental … variables methods we show that unemploy- ment incidence as such has no negative effect on fertility decisions, but the very fact … of being displaced from a career-oriented job has; fertility rates for women affected by a plant closure are …

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More Schooling, More Children: Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe

Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nichole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2011

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source …

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How does parental divorce affect children's long-term outcomes?

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2016

Numerous papers report a negative association between parental divorce and child outcomes. To provide evidence whether this correlation is driven by a causal effect, we exploit idiosyncratic variation in the extent of sexual integration in fathers' workplaces: Fathers who encounter more women in...

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When and how to create a job: The survival of new jobs in Austrian firms

Böheim, René; Stiglbauer, Alfred; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2005

While the volatility of job creations has been studied extensively, the survival chances of new jobs are less researched. The question when and how to expand a firm is of importance, both from the firm’s and from a macro perspective. Adjustment cost theories and arguments about option values...

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Job creation and job destruction in a regulated labor market: The case of Austria

Stiglbauer, Alfred M; Stahl, Florian; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2002

We study Austrian job reallocation in the period of 1978 to 1998, using a large administrative dataset where we correct for spurious entries and exits of firms. We find that on average 9 out of 100 randomly selected jobs were created within the last year, and that about 9 out of randomly...

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On the Persistence of Job Creation in Old and New Firms

Böheim, René; Stiglbauer, Alfred; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2008

We suggest a new method to analyze the success of firm creation by looking at the persistence of new jobs created in old and in new firms. Compared to survival rates of new versus old firms, this measure has the advantage that the sustainability of job creation in different circumstances is...

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The health externalities of downsizing

Ahammer, Alexander; Grübl, Dominik; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2020

We show that downsizing has substantial externalities on the health of workers who remain in the firm. To this end, we study mass layoff (ML) survivors in Austria, using workers who survive a ML themselves, but a few years in the future, as a control group. Based on highquality administrative...

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Job Creation and Job Destruction in a Regulated Labor Market: The Case of Austria

Stahl, Florian; Stiglbauer, Alfred; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2002

We study Austrian job reallocation in the period of 1978 to 1998, using a large administrative dataset where we correct for "spurious" entries and exits of firms. We find that on average 9 out of 100 randomly selected jobs were created within the last year, and that about 9 out of randomly...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013369995

Mandatory wage posting, bargaining and the gender wage gap

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Schmidpeter, Bernhard; Wiesinger, Rene; … - 2022

We evaluate whether revealing wage information in job vacancies is able to change the gender wage gap. In 2011, the Austrian Equal Treatment Law mandated every vacancy to include a minimum wage offer. This mandatory wage information makes the employer's willingness to pay and the value of...

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