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Evaluating an innovative redundancy-retraining project : the Austrian Steel Foundation

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2001

I use days worked and wage growth. As a control group I take all other displaced workers from the firms who formed the … Foundation, using Instrumental Variables to solve the selection problem. The results show considerable wage gains - even for a …

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Seniority wages and the role of firms in retirement

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; … - 2015

expensive older workers into retirement. Based on the seniority wage model developed by Lazear (1979), we discuss steep … seniority wage profiles as incentives for firms to dismiss older workers before retirement. Conditional on individual retirement … incentives, e.g., social security wealth or health status, the steepness of the wage profile will have different incentives for …

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How do automation and offshorability influence unemployment duration and subsequent job quality?

Schmidpeter, Bernhard; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2018

We analyze the effect of automation and offshorability on unemployment duration and post-unemployment outcomes such as wages and employment stability. Our rich administrative data allow us to evaluate the importance of providing unemployment training in this context. Employing a multivariate...

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Does the color of the collar matter? : firm specific human capital and post-displacement outcomes

Schwerdt, Guido; Ichino, Andrea; Ruf, Oliver; … - 2008

We investigate whether the costs of job displacement differ between blue collar and white collar workers. In the short run earnings and employment losses are substantial for both groups but stronger for white collar workers. In the long run, there are only weak effects for blue collar workers...

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