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The combined employment effects of minimum wages and labor market regulation : a meta-analysis

Boockmann, Bernhard - 2010

This paper provides a meta-analysis of 55 empirical studies estimating the employment effects of minimum wages in 15 industrial countries. It strongly confirms the notion that the effects of minimum wages are heterogeneous between countries. As possible sources of heterogeneity, it considers the...

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Robots at work

Graetz, Georg; Michaels, Guy - 2015

Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots' potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their economic effects. In this paper we analyze for the first time the economic impact of industrial robots, using new data on a panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We...

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Demographic alternatives for aging industrial countries : increased total fertility rate, labor force participation, or immigration

Holzmann, Robert (contributor) - 2005

The paper investigates the demographic alternatives for dealing with the projected population aging and low or negative growth of the population and labor force in the North. Without further immigration, the total labor force in Europe and Russia, the high-income countries of East Asia and the...

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Why is old workers' labor market more volatile? : unemployment fluctuations over the life-cycle

Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François; Sopraseuth, … - 2014

Since the last recession, it is usually argued that older workers are less affected by the economic downturn because their unemployment rate rose less than the one of prime-age workers. This view is a myth: older workers are more sensitive to the business cycle. We document volatilities of...

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Government deficit shocks and Okun's coefficient volatility : new insights on the austerity versus growth debate

Binh Thai Pham; Sala, Hector - 2019

This paper connects two salient economic features: (i) Fiscal shocks have asymmetric effects across business cycle phases (Gechert et al., 2019); (ii) Okun's coefficient is time varying and may be unstable. The intertwined dynamic behavior of fiscal shocks and unemployment-output trade-offs are...

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Volatility and growth : governments are key

Jetter, Michael - 2013

paper offers a solution to this disagreement, suggesting that volatility carries a positive direct effect, but also a … volatility is then ambiguous. The paper reveals the underlying endogeneity of government size in a balanced panel of 95 countries … increase of volatility lowers growth by up to 0.57 percentage points in a democracy, but raises growth by 1.74 percentage …

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The impact of family friendly policies in Spain and their use throughout the business cycle

Rica, Sara de la; Gorjón, Lucía - 2015

The aim of this paper is to evaluate various aspects of a family friendly law (Act 39/99) approved in Spain in 1999, which grants parents the right to reduce their work-time schedule for childcare issues. Moreover, those who resort to that law enjoy higher protection against dismissal than other...

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From epidemic to pandemic : effects of the COVID-19 outbreak on high school program choices in Sweden

Aalto, Aino-Maija; Müller, Dagmar; Tilley, J. Lucas - 2022

We study whether the onset of the COVID-19 crisis affected the program choices of high school applicants in Sweden. Our analysis exploits the fact that the admission process consists of two stages: a preliminary round in which applicants initially rank programs in order of preference and a final...

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From mancession to shecession: women's employment in regular and pandemic recessions

Alon, Titan; Coskun, Sena; Doepke, Matthias; Koll, David; … - 2021

We examine the impact of the global recession triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic on women's versus men's employment. Whereas recent recessions in advanced economies usually had a disproportionate impact on men's employment, giving rise to the moniker "mancessions," we show that the pandemic...

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Counteracting unemployment in crises : non-linear effects of short-time work policy

Gehrke, Britta; Hochmuth, Brigitte - 2018

Short-time work is a labor market policy that subsidizes working time reductions among firms in financial difficulty to prevent layoffs. Many OECD countries have used this policy in the Great Recession. This paper shows that the effects of short-time work are strongly time dependent and...

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