We study short- and long-term wage effects of two important elements of non-wage labour costs: firing costs and payroll … taxes. We exploit a reform that introduced substantial reduction in these two provisions for unemployed workers aged less …, which predicts an ambiguous effect on wages: firing costs are expected to increase wages, because they increase the …

Danish reform. We separately identify the effect of aid from that of other observed and unobserved variables such as parental … income. We exploit the combination of a kinked aid scheme and a reform of the student aid scheme to identify the effect of … direct costs on college enrollment. To allow for heterogeneous responses due to borrowing constraints, we use detailed …

places substantial firing costs on firms and has a major impact on the decisions of firms to hire disabled workers …

light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare …

of leavers prior to and after welfare reform. We find that after welfare reform leavers are much more likely to be … working. Although in Maryland those working have earnings that are somewhat below employed leavers prior to reform, in … substantially, and leavers are less likely to return to welfare following reform. …

moderation and working time flexibility. While at the outset of this reform sequence German had a small, but relatively …

This paper investigates long-term returns from unemployment compensation, exploiting variation from the UK JSA reform …

literature by estimating both switch-on and switch-off effects, because the reform was repealed two years later. We find a two … terms) at higher quantiles, meaning that the reform predominantly reduced long durations of absence. In terms of health, the … reform reduced the average number of days spent in hospital by almost half a day, but we cannot find robust evidence for …