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The impact of labor market reforms on income inequality: Evidence from the German Hartz reforms
Immel, Lea - 2021
In this paper, I study the distributional consequences of the German Hartz reforms, a set of four comprehensive labor market reforms implemented in Germany between 2003 and 2005. I exploit regional variation in the intensity German counties were affected by the reforms to estimate the causal...
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The regional distribution of income and wages: Causes and consequences
Immel, Lea - 2021
erences in the distribution of income and wages using county-level data from Germany. Chapter 2 analyzes the impact of the so …
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The Effect of the Hartz Labor Market Reforms on Post-unemployment Wages, Sorting, and Matching
Woodcock, Simon D. - 2020
wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage … wages of displaced workers after their return to work. Women experienced smaller wage losses than men. For both sexes, over …-displacement wages. …
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The labor market in Israel, 2000-2016
Larom, Tali; Lifshitz, Osnat - In: IZA World of Labor (2018)
Following a decline in employment and participation rates during the 1980s and 1990s, Israel managed to reverse these trends during the last 15 years. This was accompanied by a substantial decrease in unemployment. New labor force participants are mostly from the low end of the education...
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The Role of Labor Market Institutions in the Impact of Immigration on Wages and Employment
Foged, Mette; Hasager, Linea; Yasenov, Vasil - 2021
from distributional (relative) wage consequences of immigration but exacerbate the impacts on average wages in the economy …
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The Labor Market Effects of Restricting Refugees' Employment Opportunities
Ahrens, Achim; Beerli, Andreas; Hangartner, Dominik; … - 2023
restrictions on employment opportunities help explain why immigrants have lower employment and wages than native citizens. To test … prioritizing residents over refugees. Consistent with an effect of outside options on wages, removing 10% of jobs reduces refugees …' hourly wages by 2.8% and increases the wage gap to similar host-country citizens in similar jobs by 2.2%. Furthermore, we …
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The labor market effects of restricting refugees' employment opportunities
Ahrens, Achim; Beerli, Andreas; Hangartner, Dominik; … - 2023
restrictions on employment opportunities help explain why immigrants have lower employment and wages than native citizens. To test … prioritizing residents over refugees. Consistent with an effect of outside options on wages, removing 10% of jobs reduces refugees …' hourly wages by 2.8% and increases the wage gap to similar host-country citizens in similar jobs by 2.2%. Furthermore, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014374425
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The Role of Labor Market Institutions in the Impact of Immigration on Wages and Employment
Foged, Mette; Hasager, Linea; Yasenov, Vasil - 2021
from distributional (relative) wage consequences of immigration but exacerbate the impacts on average wages in the economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012498059
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Lohnrisiko und Altersarmut im Sozialstaat
Nagl, Wolfgang - 2014
Löhne und gesetzliche Rentenansprüche sind über das Sozialversicherungssystem direkt miteinander verbunden. In dieser Dissertationsschrift werden zunächst Lohnrisiken analysiert, um dann das Altersarmutsrisiko in Deutschland aufzuzeigen. Nach einer Einführung werden in Kapitel 2 die...
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Unemployment benefits and job match quality
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
the quality of the work found by the unemployed. This quality rise, in terms of both wages and duration, can be achieved …
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