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We analyse the consequences of starting a wage subsidised job, "marginal employment", for unemployed workers. Marginal employment is a type of wage subsidy paid to unemployed workers and they do not lose their unemployment benefits if the wage is below a certain threshold. We ask if the...
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In this paper we investigate the existence of compensating wage differentials across seasonal and non seasonal jobs, which arise due to anticipated working time restrictions. We build on a theoretical model by Abowd and Ashenfelter (1981), which links the compensating wage differential to...
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. Interestingly, this program is targeted to individuals aged 50 years or older, living in certain eligible regions in Austria. In the …
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, ethnicity and religion are not responsible for the increasing marital stability in Austria. Quite the contrary, without the rise …
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This paper describes subjective wage inequality and the demand for redistribution in Austria using individuals …
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present new evidence based on administrative data for a large sample of job losers in Austria. We find that the way … defined by the time spent on the unemployment system. In Austria, the exit rate from registered unemployment rises by over 200 …
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"We study the impact of the Austrian Employment Act for the Disabled which grants extended employment protection, requires a hiring quota for firms, and subsidizes the employment of severely disabled (SD) workers. Using a large sample of eligible individuals we compare workers before and after...
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longitudinal matched employer-employee data set from Austria. Our results show that firms with strong preferences for …
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In this paper we investigate the relationship between females among the first hires of start-up companies and business success. Our results show that firms with female first hires have a higher share of female workers at the end of the first year after entry. Further, we find that firms with...
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This paper investigates active labor market programs in Austria with a special emphasis on male-female effect …
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