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The impact of demographic change, co-morbidity and European care policies on the choice of care arrangement
Meng, Annika - 2010
Recent literature on long-term care looks at the substitutability of informal and professional home-based care arrangements. Other factors that influence the utilization of informal care instead of formal care have been ignored in conditional analyses so far. However, regressors that represent...
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Informal care and long-term labor market outcomes
Schmitz, Hendrik; Westphal, Matthias - 2016
In diesem Papier wird der langfristige Einfluss von häuslicher Pflege auf das Arbeitsangebot von Frauen (bis zu acht …
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Does parental unemployment affect the quality of their children's first job?
Kleverbeck, Maria; Kind, Michael Sebastian - 2015
In this paper the relationship between parental unemployment at time of children’s labor market entrance on the quality of their children’s first job is analyzed. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1991-2012 the quality of the first job in terms of wage,...
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The retirement mortality puzzle : evidence from a regression discontinuity design
Giesecke, Matthias - 2019
I estimate the effect of retirement on mortality, exploiting two discontinuities at age-based eligibility thresholds for pension claiming in Germany. The analysis is based on unique social security records that document the age at death for the universe of participants in the German public...
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Identifying sorting: in theory
Eeckhout, Jan; Kircher, Philipp - 2009
We argue that using wage data alone, it is virtually impossible to identify whether Assortative Matching between worker … and firm types is positive or negative. In standard competitive matching models the wages are determined by the marginal …
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Strategic Hiring Behavior in Empirical Matching Functions
Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001
This paper makes two contributions to the empirical matching literature. First, a recent study by Anderson and Burgess … (2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching frame-work, is replicated with a richer and more … accurate data set for Germany. Their results are confirmed and found to be surprisingly robust. Second, the matching framework …
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Matching bias in labor demand estimation
Aguilar, Giovanna; Rendón, Sílvio - 2007
Using a matched firm-worker dataset, we show both theoretically and empirically that positive assortative matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276390
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Skill mismatch and learning-by-doing : theory and evidence from time allocation on tasks
Storm, Eduard - 2023
This paper studies wage effects and job mobility as a result of skill mismatch in worker- occupation pairs. I develop a Roy model in which learning on the job induces workers to shift more time towards job-specific activities. Using a short task panel containing data on worker’s time...
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Short-time work benefits revisited: Some lessons from the Great Recession
Boeri, Tito; Brücker, Herbert - 2011
The Great Recession triggered a resurgence of short-time work (STW) throughout the OECD. Several countries introduced from scratch STW or significantly expanded the scope of the programmes already in place. In some countries like Italy, Japan and Germany between 2.5 and 5 per cent of the...
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Labor market effects of unemployment insurance design
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; van Ours, Jan C. - 2012
With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate. In this paper, we review the recent theoretical and empirical evidence on the labor market effects of UI design. We also discuss policy issues related to UI design, including...
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