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Price effects of minimum wages: Evidence from the construction sector in East and West Germany
Werner, Thomas; Sell, Friedrich L.; Reinisch, David C. - Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und … - 2013
In this paper, the authors present a new approach to estimate the impact of a minimum wage on the labor market of the construction sector in Germany. Instead of estimating the effect on employment, the authors focus on the change of prices on a firm level in order to differentiate between a...
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WORRIED SICK? WORKER RESPONSES TO ORGANIZATIONAL TURMOIL
Bratberg, Espen; Monstad, Karin - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2012
Sickness absence has risen over the past years in Norway. One explanation put forward is that a tougher labor market represents a health hazard, while a competing hypothesis predicts that loss of job security works as a disciplinary device. In this analysis we aim to trace a causal impact of...
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“Never on a Sunday”: Economic Incentives and Sick Leave in Sweden
Andrén, Daniela - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2004
ending of sickness spells. The 1991 reform, which reduced the replacement rate, had a stronger effect on reducing the … duration of short-term absences than the 1987 reform, which restricted the payment of sickness cash benefit to only scheduled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005651661
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Maximum fee vs child benefit: A welfare analysis of Swedish child-care fee reform
Brink, Anna; Nordblom, Katarina; Wahlberg, Roger - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2007
The effects of a recent Swedish child-care fee reform are compared with those of an alternative reform, increased child … benefits. The fee reform implied considerably decreased fees and was intended to increase both labor supply among parents and … aversion, the alternative reform would have been preferable to the implemented fee reform. <p> …
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How do Beveridge and Phillips curves in the euro area behave under the stress of the world economic crisis?
Sell, Friedrich L.; Reinisch, David C. - Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und … - 2013
In this paper, the authors present a new concept of the 'modified output gap' based on the New Keynesian Phillips curve and on the Beveridge curve. In the first part of the paper, both mentioned curves are derived analytically. In doing so, we identify key parameters for the shift of the...
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Income Effects from Labor Market Training Programs in Sweden During the 80’s and 90’s
Andrén, Thomas; Gustafsson, Björn - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2002
Swedish labor market programs appear large from an international perspective, yet their consequences are not fully investigated and understood. In this paper we estimate a switching regression model with training effect modeled as a random coefficient, partitioned in an observed and unobserved...
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Assessing the Employment Effects of Labor Market Training Programs in Sweden
Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2002
Several studies have examined the effects of training programs on employment. Most of them assume that the effects of training are constant for all potential trainees. We use an econometric framework that allows studying the heterogeneous training effects on discrete outcomes. The treatment...
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ASSESSING THE EMPLOYMENT EFFECTS OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING USING A ONE-FACTOR MODEL
Andrén, Thomas; Andrén, Daniela - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2004
Matching estimators use observed variables to adjust for differences between groups to eliminate sample selection bias. When minimum relevant information is not available, matching estimates are biased. If access to data on usually unobserved factors that determine the selection process is...
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Employment protection and unemployment benefits: on technology adoption and job creation in a matching model
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Straume, Odd Rune; Vagstad, Steinar - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2012
We analyse the effects of different labour market policies — employment protection, unemployment benefits and payroll taxes — on job creation and technology choices in a model where firms are randomly matched with workers of different productivity and wages are determined by ex-post...
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Anmerkungen zum Monopson am Arbeitsmarkt II
Sell, Friedrich L.; Ruf, Ernst K. - Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und … - 2014
Mindestlöhne im nicht diskriminierenden Monopson auf Beschäftigung bzw. Kapitalintensität auswirken. Dabei kann der Mindestlohn in … Näherungsverfahren bestimmen. Es wird gezeigt, wie hoch ein Mindestlohn ausfallen muss, damit die vom Monopsonisten gewählte …
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