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The valuation of changes in commuting distances : an analysis using georeferenced data

Dauth, Wolfgang; Haller, Peter - 2016

We analyze the causal effect of commuting on wages, using a large sample of German job changers. Information on their home and workplace addresses in combination with road navigation software allows us to calculate exact door-to-door commuting distances with an unprecedented degree of precision....

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Dynamic agglomeration effects of foreigners and natives : the role of experience in high-quality sectors, tasks and establishments

Niebuhr, Annekatrin; Peters, Jan Cornelius; Roth, Duncan - 2022

This paper analyzes how dynamic agglomeration effects differ between foreign and native workers using administrative data on individual employment biographies. According to our results, both groups benefit, on average, equally from gathering work experience in large labor markets. The exception...

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Regional age structure and young workers' wages

Garloff, Alfred; Roth, Duncan - 2016

This paper estimates the effect that changes in the size of the youth population have on the wages of young workers. Assuming that differently aged workers are only imperfectly substitutable, economic theory predicts that individuals in larger age groups earn lower wages. We test this hypothesis...

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Do startups provide employment opportunities for disadvantaged workers?

Fackler, Daniel; Fuchs, Michaela; Hölscher, Lisa; … - 2018

instable employment biographies, come from unemployment or outside the labor force, or were affected by a plant closure …

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Job mobility and assortative matching

Braunschweig, Luisa; Dauth, Wolfgang; Roth, Duncan - 2024

We examine the development of worker-firm matching over the career due to job mobility. Using administrative employer …

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Cohort size and transitions into the labour market

Roth, Duncan - 2017

cohorts being associated with lower unemployment rates. A possible explanation is that firms react to an anticipated increase …

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Entry conditions and the transition from tertiary education to employment

Moffat, John D.; Roth, Duncan - 2022

increase in the graduation unemployment rate of one percentage point is found to reduce the hazard rate of transitioning from … unemployment into employment by 3.6 percent. This effect is stronger for females than males although the difference disappears when … analysing transitions from inactivity into employment. A longer duration of initial unemployment may therefore help to explain …

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Working from home increases work‑home distances

Coskun, Sena; Dauth, Wolfgang; Gartner, Hermann; Stops, … - 2024

This paper examines how the shift towards working from home during and after the Covid-19 pandemic shapes the way how labor market and locality choices interact. For our analysis, we combine large administrative data on employment biographies in Germany and a new working from home potential...

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Do startups provide employment opportunities for disadvantaged workers?

Fackler, Daniel; Fuchs, Michaela; Hölscher, Lisa; … - 2018

instable employment biographies, come from unemployment or outside the labor force, or were affected by a plant closure …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011855679

Employment adjustments following rises and reductions in minimum wages: New insights from a survey experiment

Bossler, Mario; Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus - 2018

The effects of large minimum wage increases, like those planned in the UK and in some US states, are still unknown. We conduct a survey experiment that randomly assigns increases or decreases in minimum wages to about 6,000 plants in Germany and asks the personnel managers about their...

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