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This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an...
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selection rule for the investigation of the impact of subsidised firm foundation from unemployment on employment growth of the … two-step estimator. The FIML model yields a significant negative impact of bridging allowance on employment growth …
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We present a new and simple empirical methodology to identify relative wage rigidity dynamics. The methodology is applied to data from the Polish Labour Force Survey for the period 1994 to 1998. We estimate ceteris paribus changes in relative wage and unemployment differentials for various...
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This study examines reforms of public expenditure in industrialised countries over the past two decades. We distinguish ambitious and timid reformers and analyse in detail reform experiences in eight case studies of ambitious reform episodes. We find that ambitious reform countries reduce...
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Der vorliegende Beitrag liefert eine Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse der Evaluation der Einführung des Mindestlohnes in der Abfallwirtschaft zum 01.01.2010. Die Evaluation setzt sich aus einem Branchenbild sowie einer kausalen Wirkungsanalyse des Mindestlohnes auf Basis einer...
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Our paper deals with the welfare and employment effects of green tax reforms. In the first part we develop a flexible … emission quotas and quantify welfare and employment effects. He or she can choose between different model variants, e. g …
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the employment spell, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) from 1985 to 2002. Using a statistical … matching approach, we find that job exit rates are initially much higher if the employment spell began with an FTC. However …, exit rates fall below those of comparable spells spent entirely in permanent employment after a few years time. This …
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between long and short employment spells within establishments. Using the Cox partial likelihood estimator, we then examine …
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