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Reforming German Labor Market Institutions : A Dual Path to Flexibility
Eichhorst, Werner - 2009
Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather …
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Sales Performance and Social Preferences
Essl, Andrea - 2018
We use an incentivized experimental game to uncover heterogeneity in otherregarding preferences among salespeople in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919506
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New Estimates of the Effects of Minimum Wages in the U.S. Retail Trade Sector
Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad - 2021
This paper examines the impact of minimum wages on earnings and employment in selected branches of the retail-trade sector, 1990-2005, using county-level data on employment and a panel regression framework that allows for county-specific trends in sectoral outcomes. We focus on particular...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130457
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137252
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096773
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104067
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104667
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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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