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Arbeitsmarkteffekte und finanzpolitische Folgen der demographischen Alterung in Deutschland

Bonin, Holger; Arnds, Pascal - 2003

discuss possible effects on labor productivity, wages, and human capital. We also show that the fast-growing dependency ratio …

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How competitive is Europe's labor?

Siebert, Horst - 1999

Europe’s labor is not competitiveness taking unemployment as the relevant indicator. The paper looks at other indicators such as job creation, productivity and unit labor costs and skills. It analyzes the reasons for the lack of competitiveness including a low degree of wage differentiation,...

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The Peter Principle: A Theory of Decline

Lazear, Edward P. - 2003

Some have observed that individuals perform worse after being promoted. The Peter Principle, which states that people are promoted to their level of incompetence, suggests that something is fundamentally misaligned in the promotion process. This view is unnecessary and inconsistent with the...

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The impact of group membership on cooperation and norm enforcement: evidence using random assignment to real social groups

Goette, Lorenz; Huffman, David; Meier, Stephan - 2006

Due to incomplete contracts, efficiency of an organization depends on willingness of individuals to take non-selfish actions, e.g., cooperate when there is no incentive to do so, or punish inefficient actions by others. Organizations also constitute a social boundary, or group. We investigate...

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Explaining the low labor productivity in East Germany : a spatial analysis

Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola (contributor); … - 2007

This paper presents a spatial analysis of unemployment rates in Germany. The goal of this analysis is to explain the stubbornly low labor productivity and high unemployment rates in Eastern Germany. We build a model of commuting to distinguish between worker and job characteristics as the main...

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Workplace heterogeneity and the rise of West German wage inequality

Card, David E.; Heining, Jörg; Kline, Patrick - 2013

dramatic rise in West German wage inequality. Our estimates suggest that the increasing dispersion of West German wages has …-match component of wage variation is small and stable over time. Decomposing changes in mean wages between different education groups …

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The earned income tax credit, health, and happiness

Boyd-Swan, Casey; Herbst, Chris M.; Ifcher, John; … - 2013

This paper contributes to the small but growing literature evaluating the health effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). In particular, we use data from the National Survey of Families and Households to study the impact of the 1990 federal EITC expansion on several outcomes related to...

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The Effect of a Sibling's Gender on Earnings, Education and Family Formation

Peter, Noemi; Lundborg, Petter; Webbink, Dinand - 2015

We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the outcomes of other children but also the very existence of...

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Fairness and Frictions: The Impact of Unequal Raises on Quit Behavior

Dube, Arindrajit; Giuliano, Laura; Leonard, Jonathan - 2015

We analyze how quits responded to arbitrary differences in own and peer wages using an unusual feature of a pay raise … within 1 cent of each other received new wages that differed by 10 cents. First, we estimate a regression discontinuity (RD …) model based on own wages; we find large causal effects of wages on quits, with quit elasticities less than -10. Next, we …

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What Works? A Meta Analysis of Recent Active Labor Market Program Evaluations

Card, David; Kluve, Jochen; Weber, Andrea - 2015

We present a meta-analysis of impact estimates from over 200 recent econometric evaluations of active labor market programs from around the world. We classify estimates by program type and participant group, and distinguish between three different post-program time horizons. Using meta-analytic...

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