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Based on a correspondence experiment covering 3,124 fictitious job applications, the paper identifies and quantifies duration dependence in Germany, with a particular emphasis on company and vacancy characteristics as potential determinants. The experiment reveals that duration dependence...
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In recent years, there has been an escalation of concern revolving around the effect that automation will have on the future of work. This anxiety has fueled the public and academic debate, fearing that soon this technology will displace jobs at a large scale. Numerous studies have begun to...
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This study examines the influence of the statutory minimum wage on labor demand elasticities regarding low-skilled workers. For this, a regression discontinuity analysis is conducted using company panel data from 2013 to 2018. In addition, a possible endogeneity of the remuneration for...
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high physical proximity and those manufacturing non-essential products/services, as well as small-size firms, were greatly …
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Whether or not immigration negatively affects the labor market outcomes of natives is an ongoing debate. One of the challenges for empirical evidence is the simultaneity of supply- and demand-side effects. To isolate the demand side, we focus on recent refugees in Germany who are exogenously...
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This study leverages detailed administrative data on firms' job flows and variation across Local Labor Markets (LLMs) in the spread of COVID-19 to investigate shifts in labor demand prompted by the pandemic. To this end, we exploit the large spatial variation in the intensity of the pandemic...
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for analysing the consequences for gender equality in employment. Since the demand for labour is a derived demand firm … firms, This creates a loss of liquidity which, in turn, has caused some firms to reduce employment, working hours and wages … further supported by a regression analysis (OLS and SURE) of several key outcomes (changes in sales, employment, the share of …
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needed to meet the new requirements, and increases in employment in equipment manufacturing when the regulation calls for the …The estimation of the employment effects of offshore safety and environmental regulation is often highly speculative … statements in support or, or in opposition to, proposed regulations. Much more reliable estimates of such employment effects can …
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Unions and collective bargaining play a central role in shaping wages and influencing firms' employment decisions and … employment. Unions typically increase wages and other working conditions for their members and often all employees working in … lower wage inequality. This result is more or less undisputed in the literature. The union effect on employment is …
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