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The Aging of the Unions in West Germany, 1980-2006

Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2021

Using data from the social survey ALLBUS for West Germany in the period 1980 to 2006, this paper demonstrates that …

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The Gradual Transformation of Continental European Labor Markets : France and Germany Compared

Eichhorst, Werner - 2007

Germany and France are both Continental European welfare states with severe labor market problems such as low …

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Social Assistance in Five Countries in North-Western Europe

Hansen, Hans - 2016

; Swedish benefits are the lowest or among the lowest, but very much in line with those in Germany. The benefits in the United …

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Youth Unemployment in Old Europe : The Polar Cases of France and Germany

Cahuc, Pierre - 2013

France and Germany are two polar cases in the European debate about rising youth unemployment. Similar to what can be … observed in Southern European countries, a "lost generation" may arise in France. In stark contrast, youth unemployment has … been on continuous decline in Germany for many years, hardly affected by the Great Recession. This paper analyzes the …

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Myth or Fact? The Beauty Premium Across the Wage Distribution

Doorley, Karina - 2012

. Comparing the effects of beauty and confidence measures in two countries (Germany and Luxembourg), we find that wages are more …

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Cross-National Differences in Wealth Portfolios at the Intensive Margin : Is There a Role for Policy?

Doorley, Karina - 2014

Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach in this literature, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that the association between household wealth portfolios at...

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Workplace Health Promotion and Labour Market Performance of Employees

Huber, Martin - 2014

This paper investigates the average effects of (firm-provided) workplace health promotion measures in form of the analysis of sickness absenteeism and health circles/courses on labour market out-comes of the firms' employees. Exploiting linked employer-employee panel data that consist of rich...

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Native-Migrant Differences in Trading Off Wages and Workplace Safety

D’Ambrosio, Anna - 2017

Applying propensity score reweighting to Italian administrative data covering the period 1994-2012, we study the conditional distributions of injuries by wage of native and foreign workers and distinguish between the component that is explained by observable characteristics and the component...

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Turnout in the Municipal Elections of March 2020 and Excess Mortality During the Covid-19 Epidemic in France

Bertoli, Simone - 2020

We analyze the consequences of the decision of French government to maintain the first round of the municipal elections on March 15, 2020 on local excess mortality in the following weeks. We exploit heterogeneity across municipalities in voter turnout, which we instrument using a measure of the...

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EU Jobs at Highest Risk of Covid-19 Social Distancing : Will the Pandemic Exacerbate Labour Market Divide?

Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2020

This paper employs a skills-based approach to identify individual and job factors most likely to be impacted by social distancing measures and practices due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Using data from the Cedefop European skills and jobs survey, a Covid-19 social distancing risk index (COV19R) is...

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