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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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Reforming an Insider-Outsider Labor Market : The Spanish Experience
Bentolila, Samuel - 2011
This paper presents a case study on reforming a very dysfunctional labor market with a deep insider-outsider divide, namely the Spanish case. We show how a dual market, with permanent and temporary employees makes real reform much harder, and leads to purely marginal changes that do not alter...
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The Short-Run Employment Effects of the German Minimum Wage Reform
Caliendo, Marco - 2017
We assess the short-term employment effects of the introduction of a national statutory minimum wage in Germany in 2015 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941245
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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...
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Threshold Values in German Labor Law and Job Dynamics in Small Firms : The Case of the Disability Law
Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Kölling, Arnd - 2021
According to the German disability law, or Schwerbehindertengesetz, either six percent of all jobs in an establishment must be occupied by disabled employees or the firm has to pay a penalty of DM 200 per month for every job under consideration. This note reports results from the first...
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What Drives the Demand for Temporary Agency Workers?
Jahn, Elke J. - 2010
employment. Using monthly data for Germany covering the period 1973-2008, we show that the continuous liberalization of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135631
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Worker Representation and Temporary Employment in Germany : The Deployment and Extent of Fixed-Term Contracts and Temporary Agency Work
Addison, John T. - 2018
This study examines the potential impact of works councils and unions on the deployment of fixed-term contracts and agency temps. We report inter al. that works councils are associated with a higher number of temporary agency workers when demand volatility is high while the opposite holds for...
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Do Changes in Regulation Affect Employment Duration in Temporary Work Agencies?
Antoni, Manfred; Jahn, Elke J. - 2021
Over the past three decades Germany has repeatedly deregulated the law on temporary agency work by stepwise increasing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317408
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Lost in Transition? Minimum Wage Effects on German Construction Workers
Bachmann, Ronald - 2012
well as the underlying labour market flows, at the establishment level. The fact that minimum wages in Germany are sector … accessions and separations rise in East Germany as a result of the minimum wage introduction. The evidence on detailed worker …-to-job transitions in East Germany, which can be explained by a more compressed wage distribution making on-the-job search less …
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The Minimum Wage Affects Them All : Evidence on Employment Spillovers in the Roofing Sector
Aretz, Bodo - 2012
roofers to remain employed in the sector in eastern Germany deteriorated along the entire wage distribution. Such employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096456