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Distributional consequences of labor demand adjustments to a downturn: A model-based approach with application to Germany 2008-09

Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2010

Germany. We take as a starting point a very detailed administrative matched employer-employee dataset to estimate labor demand …

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Short-time work benefits revisited: Some lessons from the Great Recession

Boeri, Tito; Brücker, Herbert - 2011

, Japan and Germany between 2.5 and 5 per cent of the workforce participated in short-time work schemes at the trough of the … Germany is more encouraging as to the effectiveness of STW, pointing to rather moderate deadweight losses. We interpret this …

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The Wage Policy of Firms - Comparative Evidence for the U.S. and Germany from Personnel Data

Grund, Christian - 2002

The wage policy of a German and a U.S. firm is comparatively analysed with a focus on the relation between wages and hierarchies. While prior studies examine only one particular firm, in this paper two plants of the same owners with similar production processes in different institutional...

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Task-biased changes of employment and remuneration: The case of occupations

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2011

into good and bad jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until …

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Does institutional diversity account for pay rules in Germany and Belgium?

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - 2011

) higher overall pay inequality in Germany; (II) higher pay inequalities between employees and workers in Belgium; and (III …) higher (lower) impact of educational credentials (work-post tenure) on earnings in Germany. We provide survey-based empirical … institutional details: although Germany and Belgium belong to the same variety of capitalism, we provide evidence that small …

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Dynamic Incentives in Retirement Earnings-Replacement Benefits

Dean, Andres; Fleitas, Sebastian; Zerpa, Mariana - 2020

Many defined-benefit pension systems in developed and developing countries use a small set of final years of earnings to compute pension benefits. This provides dynamic incentives to report higher earnings in the final years of the career. In this paper, we document the responses of...

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What Is the Case for Paid Maternity Leave?

Dahl, Gordon B.; Loken, Katrine Vellesen; Mogstad, Magne; … - 2013

Paid maternity leave has gained greater salience in the past few decades as mothers have increasingly entered the workforce. Indeed, the median number of weeks of paid leave to mothers among OECD countries was 14 in 1980, but had risen to 42 by 2011. We assess the case for paid maternity leave,...

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Madsen, Jakob B.; Goerke, Laszlo - 2003

We show that a stronger earnings relationship of unemployment compensation reduces wages and increases employment in an economy in which wages are determined by a trade union that maximises the rent from unionisation. The opposite result applies for a utilitarian union. Using manufacturing and...

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Modeling Financial Incentives to Get Unemployed Back to Work

Boone, Jan; van Ours, Jan C. - 2000

We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only micro effects concerning the behavior of individual unemployed workers are relevant, but also...

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Unemployment Traps: Do Financial Dis-incentives Matter?

Pedersen, Peder J.; Smith, Nina - 2001

This paper analyses the importance of financial dis-incentives for workers in Denmark. Based on a panel survey which is merged to a number of administrative registers it is possible to calculate precise measures of the economic incentives for labour force participants between employment in a...

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