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growing number of studies find beneficial effects on employment, there is little investigation into other behaviors of … households affected by such programs. We analyze the impact of the Texas Enterprise Zone Program on household debt and …
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In this paper, we investigate the use of interactive effect or linear factor models in regional policy evaluation. We contrast treatment effect estimates obtained by Bai (2009)'s least squares method with the popular difference in difference estimates as well as with estimates obtained using...
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Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise … until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this trend corresponds to a task bias in employment changes …: routine jobs have lost relative employment, especially in predominantly manual occupations. We further provide the first …
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and employment. There is some evidence that short-time compensation programs stabilize permanent employment and reduce …
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are used to investigate this relationship. Findings point out to strong state dependence in employment choices. Further …, the impact of disability on employment outcomes is highly significant. Model simulations suggest that high cross and own … state dependence can amplify a one-off disability shock to alter the probability of full time employment and …
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the housing bust. An analysis of employment and unemployment rates over the past 15 years shows that immigrants' labor … market outcomes are more cyclical than those of natives. The greater cyclicality of immigrants' employment and unemployment …-sensitive employment outcomes than college-educated natives …
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study the labour market effects of public sector employment and wages. Public sector wages plays an important role in … the optimal policy can increase the volatility of unemployment significantly. Public sector wage and employment shocks … it. Hiring more people can increase or decrease the unemployment rate. All shocks raise the wage and crowd out employment …
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economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline in employment and rise in unemployment in … further dualization of labour markets given that risks are allocated unequally across types of employment …
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This paper presents new empirical evidence on intertemporal labor supply elasticities. We use administrative data on the census of private sector employees in Austria and variation from mandated discontinuous changes in retirement benefits from the Austrian pension system. We first present...
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This paper presents – in a new way of examination and portrayal – the extent and changes of nonstandard employment … relationships (part-time work, fixed-term contracts, and self-employment) in 24 EU member states at two points of time, in 1998 and … central outcome is neither the complaint of the eroding 'standard employment relationship' nor of its potential …
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