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As a consequence of the rapid growth of temporary agency employment in Germany, the debate on the poor working conditions of temps, specifically their remuneration, has intensified recently. Using administrative data, the paper shows that the wage gap for German temp workers is rather large and...
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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 …
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This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), launched in 2005,...
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local crime rates. We assess the effects of a recent reform in California that caused a sharp and permanent reduction in the … state's incarceration rate. We exploit the large variation across California counties in the effect of this reform on county …
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Using a data set from the post welfare reform environment (the 1999 National Survey of America?s Families), this paper …
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This paper analyses the effects of a large reform in the minimum wages affecting youth workers in New Zealand since … 2001. Prior to this reform, a youth minimum wage, applying to 16-19 year-olds, was set at 60% of the adult minimum. The … reform had two components. First, it lowered the eligible age for the adult minimum wage from 20 to 18 years, and resulted in …
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Over the last year the German government has introduced a comprehensive set of labor market policy reforms, the so-called Hartz reforms, which aim at a significant reduction of unemployment. To this end, (a) many of the existing instruments of active labor market policy are modified...
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In 1998 the Slovenian UI system was drastically reformed. The reform reduced the potential duration of unemployment …
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of China. In this paper we estimate the effect of deep reform (the right to hire and fire labour, buy and sell capital … and Pakes (1996), which corrects for simultaneity bias. Furthermore, we allow selection to reform to be endogenous, and … correct for this selection bias by formulating an entry rule to reform similar to the Olley and Pakes (1996) exit rule. We …
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Government announced that through this reform it had successfully reduced the number of unemployed by 25% representing around 45 …,000 individuals. However, an evaluation of the impact of this policy reform on labour market outcomes for the severely disabled …
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