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High-impact minimum wages and heterogeneous regions

Vom Berge, Philipp; Frings, Hanna - 2017

We estimate the effects of the introduction and subsequent increases of a substantial minimum wage in Germany's main … rate for East Germany but did not have a significant impact on the West German equivalent. The estimated effect on the …

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Das Entsendegesetz : Sündenfall oder Lösung des Arbeitslosigkeitsproblems?

Rotte, Ralph; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998

auf den heimischen Arbeitsmarkt wird dazu zunächst ein Blick auf die gegenwärtige Krise der deutschen Bauwirtschaft und …

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Lost in transition? : minimum wage effects on German construction workers

Bachmann, Ronald; König, Marion; Schaffner, Sandra - 2012

well as the underlying labour market flows, at the establishment level. The fact that minimum wages in Germany are sector … accessions and separations rise in East Germany as a result of the minimum wage introduction. The evidence on detailed worker …-to-job transitions in East Germany, which can be explained by a more compressed wage distribution making on-the-job search less …

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High-school dropouts and transitory labor market shocks : the case of the spanish housing boom

Aparicio, Ainhoa - 2010

This paper addresses the implications of transitory changes in labor market conditions for low versus high educated workers on the decision to acquire education. To identify this effect, I use the improvement in the labor market prospects of low educated workers motivated by the increases in...

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Construction contracts (or : "how to get the right building at the right price?")

Chakravarty, Surajeet (contributor); … - 2006

Most contracts that individuals enter into are not written from scratch; rather, they depend upon forms and terms that have been successful in the past. In this paper, we study the structure of form construction contracts published by the American Institute of Architects (AIA). We show that...

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An analysis of the impact of affirmative action programs on self-employment in the construction industry

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor); … - 2005

The main findings of this paper are that despite the existence of various affirmative action programs designed to improve the position of women and minorities in public construction, little has changed in the last twenty five years. We present evidence showing that where race conscious...

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The re-building effect of hurricanes : evidence from employment in the US construction industry

Strobl, Eric (contributor); Walsh, Frank A. (contributor) - 2008

We examine the impact of hurricane strikes on the construction industry in US counties. To this end we use a measure of hurricane destruction derived from a wind field model and historical hurricane track data and employ this within a dynamic labour demand framework. Our results show that...

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House prices and employment reallocation : international evidence

Bover, Olympia (contributor); Jimeno, Juan F. (contributor) - 2007

Over the last decade house prices increased remarkably in many countries. However, while in several countries there was an employment boom in the construction sector, in others the share of employment in this sector did not significantly change. In this paper we estimate a model of labor demand...

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Same process, different outcomes : group performance in an acquiring a company experimen

Casari, Marco; Zhang, Jingjing; Jackson, Christine - 2015

It is still an open question when groups perform better than individuals in intellective tasks. We report that in an Acquiring a Company game, what prevailed when there was disagreement among group members was the median proposal and not the best proposal. This aggregation rule explains why...

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Work experience from paid employment and the path to entrepreneurship : business takeover versus new venture start-up

Xi, Guoqian; Block, Jörn; Lasch, Frank C.; Robert, Frank; … - 2016

entrepreneurship. We distinguish between two distinct entrepreneurship entry modes: business takeover and new venture start-up. Using a … large and rich French data set, we find that small firm experience increases the likelihood for business takeover, whereas …

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