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When and How to Create a Job: The Survival of New Jobs in Austrian Firms

Böheim, René; Stiglbauer, Alfred; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

While the volatility of job creations has been studied extensively, the survival chances of new jobs are less researched. The question when and how to expand a firm is of importance, both from the firms and from a macro perspective. Adjustment cost theories and arguments about option values of...

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Benefit Duration and Unemployment Entry: Quasi-experimental Evidence for Austria

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper studies the impact of a selective extension of unemployment benefit duration on the incidence of unemployment in Austria. As the new law applies only to elderly workers in certain regions of the country after June 1988, a quasi-experimental situation is created. Unemployment entry is...

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Firm Size Wage Differentials in Switzerland: Evidence from Job Changers

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zweimueller, Josef - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …

-size wage differentials in Switzerland. We find that the observed cross-sectional firm size premium cannot be explained …

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Potential Unemployment Benefit Duration and Spell Length: Lessons from a Quasi-experiment in Austria

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

The paper studies the effect of potential unemployment benefit duration on the length of unemployment spells in Austria. It takes advantage of a quasi-experimental situation, where potential benefit duration was extended in 1988 for elderly workers living in specific regions of the country. The...

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Firm-Size Wage Differentials in Switzerland: Evidence from Job-Changers

Zweimuller, Josef; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - In: American Economic Review 89 (1999) 2, pp. 89-93

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Mentoring and Segregation: Female-Led Firms and Gender Wage Policies

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

share of females reducing the wage level. These results are compatible with a theory where job promotion is an important … factor of wage increases: if more females are to be mentored, less promotion slots are available for males, but also the …

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A Meta-Analysis of the International Gender Wage Gap

Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Since the early seventies, hundreds of authors have calculated gender wage differentials between women and men of equal … productivity. Consequently, estimates for the gender wage gap have been published for the most diverse countries at different … points in time. This metastudy provides a quantitative review of this vast amount of empirical literature on gender wage …

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Are Austrian Returns to Education Falling Over Time?

Fersterer, Josef; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

In this paper we make a systematic presentation of returns to education in Austria for the period 1981-1997. We use consistent cross-sections from the Mikrozensus and find falling returns over time. These falling returns are not caused by changes in the sample design and reduced willingness to...

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Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria: Evidence from Failed Firms

Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Fersterer, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. There is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and there might be an important element of selection in who obtains an apprenticeship, and what type. To...

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The Long-Run Educational Cost of World War II: An Example of Local Average Treatment Effect Estimation

Ichino, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

An important component of the long-run cost of a war is the loss of human capital, suffered by children of schooling age who receive less education because of the war. This paper shows that in the European countries involved in World War II, children who were ten years old during the conflict...

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