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German Socio-Economic Panel. Previous studies have focused on satisfaction differences between parents and comparable …
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In 1996 Austria introduced a tax for the layoff of older workers, which was tightened in 2000. The regulation requires employers to pay a tax of up to 170 percent of the gross monthly income when they give notice to employees aged 50 or more. We use data from Austrian social security records to...
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's tax-based social transfers have not harmed either employment or GDP. Even unemployment benefits do not have robustly … employment effects, but through the net human-capital cost of protecting senior male workers at the expense of women and youth …
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shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …
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certain state (e.g. unemployment) to be eligible for a treatment, treatments may commence at different points in time, and the … earnings in subsequent employment. Any evaluation needs to take into account that some of those who are not trained at a … certain time in unemployment will leave unemployment before training while others will be trained later. We are interested in …
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covariates are key confounders to be included inselection models. The joint inclusion of specific short-term employment history … indicators (notably, the share of time spent in employment), together with baseline socio-economic characteristics, regional and … approach provides accurate effect estimates, especially if time-varying variation in the unemployment rate of the local labor …
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While examining the macroeconomic effects of government tax and punishment policies, this paper develops a three-sector general equilibrium model featuring matching frictions and worker-firm wage bargaining. Workers are assumed to differ in ability, and the choice of education is determined...
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effect of the length is found on unemployment, employment or wages. Overall, the results suggest that receiving a fixed term … unemployment among job-seekers. Using exact matching on labour market history and personal characteristics we find positive effects … contract reduces the risk of future unemployment, and that a longer contract increases the position within the workplace but …
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that unemployment, being a homemaker, self-employed, living single, and having a child living close, are associated with an …
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