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Labor market effects of minimum wage shocks

Micheli, Martin - 2019

The theoretical literature argues that labor markets outcomes are affected by real minimum wages. Real minimum wages, however, co-move with the business cycle; their correlation with labor market outcomes should therefore not be interpreted causally. We employ structural vector autoregression to...

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Effects of rural electrification on employment : a comment on Dinkelman (2011)

Bensch, Gunther; Gotz, Gunnar; Peters, Jörg - 2020

This paper replicates and extends the seminal paper by Dinkelman (2011) on the impacts of electrification on female employment. We revisit the validity of the identification strategy that uses the land gradient as an instrumental variable (IV). Our robustness checks cast doubt on the exclusion...

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The effects of off-label drug use on disability and medical expenditure

Blankart, Katharina; Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2022

Does using prescription drugs off-label increase disability and medical expenditure? This paper uses a unique dataset to evaluate off-label vs. on-label drug use in the US non-institutionalized population. Patients using drugs off-label have on average $515 higher medical expenditure and...

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Unemployment as a social norm revisited : novel evidence from German counties

Kunze, Lars; Suppa, Nicolai - 2016

Deutschland untersuchen wir, ob der soziale Normeffekt von Arbeitslosigkeit altersabhängig ist. In der Tat finden wir, dass die …

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Germany's Energiewende : a tale of increasing costs and decreasing willingness-to-pay

Andor, Mark Andreas; Frondel, Manuel; Vance, Colin - 2016

This paper presents evidence that the accumulating cost of Germany’s ambitious plan to transform its system of energy … on a closed-ended question framed around Germany’s target of 35% renewable energy in electricity provision by 2020, and …

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Effects of the Bologna Reform on educational outcomes : micro evidence from Germany

Hahm, Sabrina; Kluve, Jochen - 2016

paper analyzes impacts of the Bologna Reform for Germany by using unique micro data from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU …. Dieses Papier analysiert die Auswirkungen der Bologna-Reform in Deutschland auf Basis von Mikrodaten der Humboldt …

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A decomposition analysis of cigarette consumption differences between male Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany 2002 - 2012

Dang, Rui - 2016

In this article, we investigate the differences in smoking behavior between male Turkish immigrants and male Germans, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). More specifically, we use a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method for count data models, and isolate differences in the...

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Cohort size effects on wages, working status, and work time

Okoampah, Sarah - 2016

This paper estimates the effects of cohort size on wages, employment and work time for workers in Germany. The … Arbeitnehmer in Deutschland. Die empirischen Ergebnisse implizieren, dass männliche Arbeiter in Berufen mit mittleren und hohen …

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Estimating earnings assimilation of immigrants to Germany : evidence from a double cohort model

Okoampah, Sarah - 2016

, empirical evidence mostly suggests that immigrants to Germany experience persistent earnings disadvantages and, if at all, only … processes of immigrants to Germany. In line with this literature, no evidence for a robust assimilation process for immigrants … Aufenthaltsdauer im Gastland verschwindet, deutet die Evidenz für Deutschland hauptsächlich auf persistente Lohnnachteile für …

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Wage growth, urbanization, and firm characteristics : evidence for Germany

Kelle, Markus - 2016

I use German administrative data for 2001-2010 to analyse the impact of urbanization and firm characteristics on wage growth of workers. I find a statistically highly significant higher within-job wage growth rate for workers in counties with a higher population density. This provides evidence...

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