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Minimum wages and the rise in solo self-employment
Ganserer, Angelika; Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2022
Solo self-employment is on the rise despite less favorable working conditions compared to traditional jobs. We show that the introduction of minimum wages in German industries led to an increase in the share of solo self-employment by up to 8.5 percentage points. We explain our findings within a...
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Does pay transparency affect the gender wage gap? Evidence from Austria
Gulyas, Andreas; Seitz, Sebastian; Sinha, Sourav - 2021
We study the 2011 Austrian Pay Transparency Law, which requires firms above a size threshold to publish internal reports on the gender pay gap. Using an event-study design, we show that the policy had no discernible effects on male and female wages, thus leaving the gender wage gap unchanged....
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Do employment subsidies reduce early apprenticeship dropout?
Fries, Jan; Göbel, Christian; Maier, Michael F. - 2013
We evaluate the effect of the Apprenticeship Bonus, an employment subsidy programme, on early dropout of apprenticeship. Eligibility to the programme is restricted to school leavers who have actively searched for apprenticeship training to start immediately after leaving school, but were...
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Do employment subsidies reduce early apprenticeship dropout?
Fries, Jan; Göbel, Christian; Maier, Michael F. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
We evaluate the effect of the Apprenticeship Bonus, an employment subsidy programme, on early dropout of apprenticeship. Eligibility to the programme is restricted to school leavers who have actively searched for apprenticeship training to start immediately after leaving school, but were...
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Dismissal protection and long-term sickness absence: First evidence from Germany
Gürtzgen, Nicole; Hiesinger, Karolin - 2020
indicate that the reform did not alter the probability of involuntary unemployment after sickness. …
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Mandated sick pay: Coverage, utilization, and welfare effects
Maclean, Catherine; Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2021
This paper evaluates how sick pay mandates operate at the job level in the United States. Using the National Compensation Survey and difference-in-differences models, we estimate their impact on coverage rates, sick leave use, labor costs, and non-mandated fringe benefits. Sick pay mandates...
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Why training older employees is less effective
Zwick, Thomas - 2011
This paper shows that training of older employees is less effective. Training effectiveness is measured with respect to key dimensions such as career development, earnings, adoption of new skills, flexibility or job security. Older employees also pursue less ambitious goals with their training...
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Why training older employees is less effective
Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
This paper shows that training of older employees is less effective. Training effectiveness is measured with respect to key dimensions such as career development, earnings, adoption of new skills, flexibility or job security. Older employees also pursue less ambitious goals with their training...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009228819
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When the minimum wage really bites hard: Impact on top earners and skill supply
Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020
We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum...
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Aggregate Unemployment Decreases Individual Returns to Education
Ammermüller, Andreas; Kuckulenz, Anja; Zwick, Thomas - 2006
On the basis of a theoretical model, we argue that higher aggregate unemployment affects individual returns to … education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education … level in a standard Mincer equation. Our results show that an increase in regional unemployment by 1% decreases the returns …
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