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Eine ökonometrische Analyse der Beschäftigungswirkungen des technisch-organisatorischen Wandels
Radić, Dubravko - In: Wirtschaft und Statistik : WISTA (2006) 8, pp. 863-870
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003368215
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"The Double Dividend of Training" - Labor Market Effects of Work-Related Continuous Education in Switzerland
Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244243
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Lingering Illness or Sudden Death? Pre-Exit Employment Developments in German Establishments
Fackler, Daniel - 2012
Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear "shadow of death" effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096121
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Offshoring and Firm Performance : Self-Selection, Effects on Performance, or Both?
Wagner, Joachim - 2009
what is often argued, therefore, we find no evidence for a negative causal effect of offshoring on employment in Germany or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153306
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Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed : Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity
Caliendo, Marco - 2010
(ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147125
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Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies
Brown, Alessio J.G; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021
This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities and targeting the unemployed under the criteria of "approximate welfare efficiency" (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316994
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Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives
Brown, Alessio J.G; Orszag, J. Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2008
We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014058461
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The Employment Effects of Low-Wage Subsidies
Huttunen, Kristiina - 2010
Low-wage subsidies are often proposed as a solution to the unemployment problem among the low skilled. Yet the empirical evidence on the effects of low-wage subsidies is surprisingly scarce. This paper examines the employment effects of a Finnish payroll tax subsidy scheme, which is targeted at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141786
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Heterogeneous Employment Effects of Job Search Programmes : A Machine Learning Approach
Knaus, Michael - 2017
We systematically investigate the effect heterogeneity of job search programmes for unemployed workers. To investigate possibly heterogeneous employment effects, we combine non-experimental causal empirical models with Lasso-type estimators. The empirical analyses are based on rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948612
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Does Raising the Retirement Age Increase Employment of Older Workers?
Staubli, Stefan - 2011
This paper studies how an increase in the minimum retirement age affects the labor market behavior of older workers. Between 2000 and 2006 the Austrian government gradually increased the early retirement age from 60 to 62.2 for men and from 55 to 57.2 for women. Using administrative data on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121921