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Loosening hours constraints on the supply of labor : what if Germans had a Dutch labor market?

Wolf, Elke - 2000

Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this back-of-the-envelope calculation overestimates the effect of loosening hours constraints, because even in a very flexible labor market there will exist hours restrictions for...

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The effects of the Employment Tax Incentive on South African employment

Ebrahim, Amina; Leibbrandt, Murray V.; Ranchhod, Vimal - 2017

South Africa's Employment Tax Incentive, launched in 2014, aimed to address low youth employment by reducing the cost of hiring young workers. We make use of anonymized tax administrative data from the 2012-2015 tax years to examine the effect of the Incentive on youth employment. We match firms...

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Minimum wages and female labor supply in Germany

Bredemeier, Christian; Juessen Falko - 2012

In Germany, there is a vivid political debate on introducing a general statutory minimum wage. In this paper, we study the effects of minimum wages on labor supply using a structural household model where we distinguish between married and single households. In the model, labor supply of married...

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Analyzing economic policies that affect supply and demand : a structural model of productivity, labor supply and rationing ; conference paper

Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2014

In this paper a labor supply model with demand side rationing is estimated to analyze the economic policies that directly affect incentives to work as well as labor costs. The framework is applied to evaluate the employment effects of a federal minimum wage in Germany and the impact of employer-...

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Monopsony competition and the minimum wage : evidence from Germany ; conference paper

Bachmann, Ronald; Frings, Hanna - 2014 - Preliminary

This paper investigates the degree of monoposony power of German employers in different industries, using a semi-structural approach based on a dynamic model of monopsonistic competition. The empirical analysis is based on a linked employer-employee data set which allows us to control for...

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Monopsonistic competition, low-wage labour markets, and minimum wages : an empirical analysis

Bachmann, Ronald; Frings, Hanna - 2015

This paper investigates the degree of monopsony power of employers in different industries against the background of a statutory minimum wage introduction in Germany in January 2015. A semi-structural estimation approach is employed based on a dynamic model of monopsonistic competition. The...

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Parental labour supply responses to the abolition of day care fees

Huebener, Mathias; Pape, Astrid; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2019

working longer hours. We study the effects of a reform that abolished day care fees in Germany on parental labour supply. The … reform removed private contributions to highly subsidised day care in the year before children enter primary school. We … exploit the staggered reform across states with a difference-in-differences approach and event studies. Although participation …

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Great expectations : reservation wages and the minimum wage reform

Fedorets, Alexandra; Filatov, Alexey; Shupe, Cortnie - 2018

observed wages due to the minimum wage reform are comparable in their magnitude. Additional results show that German citizens …

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The effects of Germany's new minimum wage on employment and welfare dependency

Schmitz, Sebastian - 2017

In January 2015, Germany introduced a federal, statutory minimum wage of 8.50 € per hour. This study evaluates the effects of this policy on regular and marginal employment and on welfare dependency. Based on county-level administrative data, this study uses the difference-in-differences...

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From unemployment benefits to unemployment accounts

Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

We explore the implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by unemployment accounts (UA). Under the UA system, employed people would be required to make ongoing contributions to their unemployment accounts, and the balances in these accounts would then be available to...

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