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Assortative Mating and Divorce: Evidence from Austrian Register Data

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2009

, without the rise in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the …

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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 …

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Immigration and voting for the extreme right

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

-country correlation between the election success of ERW parties and immigration. Motivated by this evidence, we explore one potentially … important channel through which immigration may drive support for ERW parties: the presence of immigrants in the voters … features of the history of immigration into Austria to identify a causal effect of immigration on ERW voting results. We argue …

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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316869

On the Persistence of Job Creation in Old and New Firms

Böheim, René; Stiglbauer, Alfred; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2008

We suggest a new method to analyze the success of firm creation by looking at the persistence of new jobs created in old and in new firms. Compared to survival rates of new versus old firms, this measure has the advantage that the sustainability of job creation in different circumstances is...

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Labor market policy in Austria during the crises

Hofer, Helmut; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2013

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Extended unemployment benefits and early retirement: Program complementarity and program substitution

Inderbitzin, Lukas; Staubli, Stefan; Zweimüller, Josef - 2013

This paper explores how extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits targeted to older workers affect early retirement and social welfare. The trade-off of optimal UI between consumption smoothing and moral hazard requires accounting for the entire early retirement system, which often includes...

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Does raising the retirement age increase employment of older workers?

Staubli, Stefan; Zweimüller, Josef - 2012

Two pension reforms in Austria increased the early retirement age from 60 to 62 for men and from 55 to 58.25 for women. The reforms reduced early retirement by 18.9 percentage points among affected men aged 60-62 and by 22.3 percentage points among affected women aged 55-58.25. The associated...

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Applying for jobs: Does ALMP participation help?

Lalive, Rafael; Morlok, Michael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2011

This paper calculates the impact of Active Labour Market Programmes through the use of three new indicators measuring the application performance of the unemployed. These indicators can be measured repeatedly and therefore allow the usage of Panel Regression methods, cancelling out any...

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The wage expectations of European college students

Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2001

variation across universities and fields. We also examine the trade-off between expected starting wages and wage growth. In the …

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