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Does immigration into their neighborhoods incline voters toward the extreme right? : the case of the freedom party of Austria

Halla, Martin; Wagner, Alexander F.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2012

This paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme right-wing parties: the presence of immigrants in one's neighborhood. We study the case of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Under the leadership of Jörg Haider, this party increased...

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Fertility and Economic Instability: The Role of Unemployment and Job Displacement

Bono, Emilia Del; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2011

We study the effect of job displacement on fertility in a sample of white collar women in Austria. Using instrumental variables methods we show that unemploy- ment incidence as such has no negative effect on fertility decisions, but the very fact of being displaced from a career-oriented job...

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Great Expectations: Past Wages and Unemployment Durations

Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2010

overly long unemployment durations. We examine the infuence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after …

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Fertility and economic instability : the role of unemployment and job displacement

Del Bono, Emilia; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2011

signiffcantly below those of a control group, even after six years. -- fertility ; unemployment ; plant closings ; human capital …

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Great expectations: past wages and unemployment durations

Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2010

overly long unemployment durations. We examine the infuence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after … observed productivity. -- unemployment ; job search ; overconfidence …

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Why do students expect to stay longer in college? : evidence from Europe

Brunello, Giorgio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2002

than 3000 students in 10 countries. We explain observed excess time to graduation by paying special attention to labor … market variables, such as unemployment, wage differentials and employment protection, and to the funding of tertiary …

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The health externalities of downsizing

Ahammer, Alexander; Grübl, Dominik; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2021

We show that downsizing has substantial externalities on the health of workers who remain in the firm. To this end, we study mass layoff (ML) survivors in Austria, using workers who survive a ML themselves, but a few years in the future, as a control group. Based on highquality administrative...

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Intergenerationl transmission of unemployment : causal evidence from Austria

Grübl, Dominik; Lackner, Mario; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2020

We estimate the causal effect of parents' unemployment on unemployment among their children in their own adulthood. We …) identification strategy using parents' job loss during a mass layoff as the instrument. We find evidence of unemployment inheritance … in the next generation. An additional day of unemployment during childhood causally raises the average unemployment days …

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How do automation and offshorability influence unemployment duration and subsequent job quality?

Schmidpeter, Bernhard; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2018

We analyze the effect of automation and offshorability on unemployment duration and postunemployment outcomes such as … wages and employment stability. Our rich administrative data allow us to evaluate the importance of providing unemployment …. Labor market training is helping workers to ameliorate these negative effects and is remarkably on the spot. For workers who …

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Job creation and job destruction in a regulated labor market : the case of Austria

Stiglbauer, Alfred; Stahl, Florian; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2002

of tighter regulation and labor law in Austria. …

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