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This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in a first-order way on the structure of retirement policies. Using German data, we first present reduced-form evidence of these interactions, documenting large bunching in UI...
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Greater job creation in the US than in Germany has often been related to greater wage dispersion coupled with less … jobs problem in Germany is one of a general lack in demand for labor …
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. This paper studies a unique reform in Germany that allowed workers to hold small secondary jobs tax-free, decreasing the …
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, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we document striking similarities in spatial differences in unemployment, vacancies, job …
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data from Germany with information on firm-level automation decisions. Our findings suggest that the impact of robots on …
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firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to … innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated using comparable firm-level data from France, Germany, Spain and the …
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policy. It takes Germany as an example, but it equally applies to the other large economies in Continental Europe. The paper …
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States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … did not change substantially in Germany, increased and remained at relatively high levels in the United States, and … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains …
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This paper investigates the impact of lower mortgage rates on household balance sheets and other economic outcomes during the housing crisis. We use proprietary loan-level panel data matched to consumer credit records using borrowers' Social Security numbers, which allows for accurate...
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We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain …
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