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Stimulating Local Public Employment : Do General Grants Work?

Lundqvist, Heléne - 2010

The effectiveness of public funds in increasing public employment has long been a question on public and labor economists' minds. In most federal countries local governments employ large fractions of the working population, meaning that a tool for stimulating local public employment can...

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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration : The Case of Occupations

Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011

into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s …

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Distributional Consequences of Labor Demand Adjustments to a Downturn : A Model-Based Approach with Application to Germany 2008-09

Bargain, Olivier - 2010

Germany. We take as a starting point a very detailed administrative matched employer-employee dataset to estimate labor demand …

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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 …

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Separating Introduction Effects from Selectivity Effects : The Differences in Employment Patterns of Co-Determined Firms

Gralla, Rafael - 2012

This study examines differences in employment growth between firms with and without works councils by separating introduction effects from potential selectivity effects. Using a difference in differences framework, we show that firms with works councils have higher employment growth before...

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The Rise of the East and the Far East : German Labor Markets and Trade Integration

Dauth, Wolfgang - 2012

We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe … sector in Germany. We also conduct our analysis at the individual worker level, and find that trade had a stabilizing overall …

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More Hours, More Jobs? The Employment Effects of Longer Working Hours

Andrews, Martyn J. - 2012

Increases in standard hours have been a contentious policy issue in Germany. Whilst this might directly lead to a …

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Identifying the Substitution Effect of Temporary Agency Employment

Jahn, Elke J. - 2012

This paper fills a gap in the literature by investigating whether temporary agency employment substitutes regular employment. To take into account the interaction between the two employment forms, we identify a SVAR model with correlated innovations by volatility regimes. We show that a positive...

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Labor Market Adjustments after a Large Import Shock : Evidence from the German Clothing Industry and the Multi-Fibre Arrangement

Braakmann, Nils - 2009

This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level...

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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 …

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