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Exports and labor demand : evidence from Egyptian firm-level data
Berg, Claudia; Robertson, Raymond; López Acevedo, Gladys - 2022
, Egypt requires deeper business environment reforms to incentivize large export, labor-intensive sector growth and integrate …Unlike many countries, Egypt did not experience significant labor market improvements following trade liberalization … present a simplified general equilibrium model inspired by Melitz (2003) with two sectors: one able to export and one "reserve …
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Exporting and labor demand : micro-level evidence from Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2013
control for issues of self-selection and endogeneity in the firms' decisions to export by providing fixed effects and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771744
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The employment effects of state hiring credits
Neumark, David; Grijalva, Diego - 2015
State and federal policymakers grappling with the aftermath of the Great Recession sought ways to spur job creation, in many cases adopting hiring credits to encourage employers to create new jobs. However, there is virtually no evidence on the effects of these kinds of counter-recessionary...
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Do hiring credits work in recessions? : evidence from France
Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane; Le Barbanchon, Thomas - 2014
This paper evaluates the impact of an unexpected temporary hiring credit targeted at workers paid below 1.6 times the minimum wage in firms with less than 10 employees in France from December 2008 to December 2009. Using rich administrative data covering all French firms, we find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010382634
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How the demand for labor may adapt to the availability of labor : a preliminary exploration with historical data
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei - 2015
This note presents and tests a general model to help explain why the demand for labor adapts to the availability of labor. In particular, we postulate that the cost of hiring declines with a growth in available labor for two reasons: (1) individuals seeking employment would be coming to...
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The changing situation of loabor market entrants in Germany : a long-run analysis of wages and occupational patterns
Reinhold, Mario; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2016
Concurrently with a steady increase of the supply of college educated workers, recent evidence for the U.S. indicated a decline in the demand for and the real wages of this group after 2000. We investigate empirically, whether there has been a similar trend in Germany. Based on comprehensive,...
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Employment effects of payroll tax subsidies
Collischon, Matthias; Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2020
This paper exploits several reforms of wage subsidies in the framework of the German Minijob program to investigate substitution and complementarity relationships between subsidized and non-subsidized labor demand. We apply an instrumental variables approach and use administrative data on German...
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The effectiveness of hiring credits
Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane; Le Barbanchon, Thomas - 2017
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of hiring credits. Using comprehensive administrative data, we show that the French hiring credit, implemented during the Great Recession, had significant positive employment effects and no effects on wages. Relying on the quasi-experimental variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785665
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Skill premiums and the supply of young workers in Germany
Glitz, Albrecht; Wissmann, Daniel - 2017
In this paper, we study the development and underlying drivers of skill premiums in Germany between 1980 and 2008. We show that the significant increase in the medium to low skill wage premiums since the late 1980s was almost exclusively concentrated among the group of workers aged 30 or below....
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Improving estimation of labor market disequilibrium using shortage indicators, with an application to the market for anesthesiologists
Baird, Matthew; Daugherty, Lindsay; Kumar, Krishna B. - 2019
are likely in disequilibrium. We develop a new methodology to improve the estimation of a reduced form disequilibrium … model from the existing models by incorporating survey-based shortage indicators into the model and estimation. Our shortage …
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