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Goerke, Laszlo - 2006

In an efficiency wage economy, lump-sum severance pay from which shirkers can be excluded raises employment. However, severance payments are usually related to wages. It is shown that earnings-related, mandated severance pay will have ambiguous employment effects if effort can be varied...

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Corporate and personal income tax declarations

Goerke, Laszlo (contributor) - 2006

Decisions by firms and individuals on the extent of their tax payments have generally been treated as separate choices. Empirically, a positive relationship between corporate and personal income tax evasion can be observed. The theoretical analysis in this paper shows that a manager's decision...

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Career progression and formal versus on-the-job training

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas; … - 2006

We develop a dynamic discrete choice model of training choice, employment and wage growth, allowing for job mobility, in a world where wages depend on firm-worker matches, as well as experience and tenure and jobs take time to locate. We estimate this model on a large administrative panel data...

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Unemployment insurance savings accounts and collective wage determination

Goerke, Laszlo (contributor) - 2007

Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts (UISAs) entitle workers to unemployment benefits at the expense of future pension payments. Therefore, such accounts make unemployment less attractive, intensify job search, and raise employment. In the present paper the wage and employment consequences of...

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Inequality in individual mortality and economic conditions earlier in life

Berg, Gerard J. van den (contributor); … - 2006

We analyze the effect of being born in a recession on the mortality rate later in life in conjunction with social class. We use individual data records from Dutch registers of birth, marriage, and death certificates, covering the period 1815-2000, and we merge these with historical data on...

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A positive theory of the earnings relationship of unemployment benefits

Goerke, Laszlo (contributor); Pannenberg, Markus (contributor) - 2007

Evidently, the benefit-structure of the unemployment insurance has a significant influence on profits and trade union utility. We show for a wage bargaining model that a stronger earnings relationship of unemployment benefits may reduce wages and increase employment. This raises the question as...

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Estimation of heterogeneous treatment effects on hazard rates

Gaure, Simen; Røed, Knut; Berg, Gerard J. van den; … - 2010

Consider a setting where a treatment that starts at some point during a spell (e.g. in unemployment) may impact on the hazard rate of the spell duration, and where the impact may be heterogeneous across subjects. We provide Monte Carlo evidence on the feasibility of estimating the distribution...

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The career costs of children

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Stevens, Katrien - 2011

unearned wages (as women drop out of the labor market), loss of human capital, and selection into more child …-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility, occupational choice, and labor supply using detailed survey and …-female wage gap as it evolves from labor market entry onward and the effect of pro-fertility policies. We show that a substantial …

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How do industries and firms respond to changes in local labor supply?

Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht - 2011

In this paper, we investigate how changes in the skill mix of local labor supply are absorbed by the economy. We … absorption process of labor supply shocks. Our analysis is based on administrative data, comprising the entirety of firms in … Germany over a 10 years period. We find that, while factor price adjustments are important in the non-tradable sector, labor …

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Referral-based job search networks

Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; Schönberg, Uta - 2011

unique matched employer-employee data that cover the entire workforce in one large metropolitan labor market over a 20 year … deficiencies in the labor market and lead to productivity gains for workers and firms. -- networks ; referrals ; uncertainty …

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