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Welfare recipients in Germany are allowed to take up supplementary jobs while receiving welfare. The possibility of …
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This paper evaluates the effects of a fall in payroll taxes on employment and wages in the presence of high labor informality. For that purpose, the paper examines a recently approved tax reform in Colombia especially targeted to promote labor formality. The model suggests that the reform would...
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This book explores empirically for West Germany whether a decline in the relative demand for less skilled workers … resulted in increased unemployment. Using up-to-date econometric techniques, a balanced mixture between descriptive evidence … conventional wisdom about labor market trends in West Germany. Overall wage dispersion has been increasing and wage growth has been …
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We compare two options of integrating discrete working time choice of heterogenous households into a general equilibrium model. The first, known from the literature, produces household heterogeneity through a working time preference parameter. We contrast this with a model that directly...
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This paper deals with the heterogeneous employment outcome at the plant level in Swedish manufacturing over the period 1972-96. Non-negligible gross flows of jobs is found to be a pronounced feature in Swedish manufacturing, but as compared to results on U.S. data, the average pace of job...
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Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational … Sowjetunion, die zwischen 1989 und 1994 nach Deutschland eingewandert sind. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Migranten einen geringeren …
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