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We use linked longitudinal data on employers and employees to estimate how the 2003-2005 Hartz reforms affected the wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage effects into components attributable to selection on...
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(1983-2009). We show that, until the early 2000s, close to 60% of changes in the unemployment rate are due to changes in the …
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das subjektive Wohlbefinden von Beschäftigten in Deutschland. Hierzu wird mit Daten eines monatlichen Panels von … geringerem Maße für Indikatoren des Wohlbefindens in bestimmten Lebensbereichen, wie die Zufriedenheit mit der Arbeit und mit der … health substantially. Momentary happiness and life satisfaction also decline in response to Covid-19, but to a smaller extent …
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health substantially. Momentary happiness and life satisfaction also decline in response to Covid-19, but to a smaller extent … of well-being in certain areas of life, such as satisfaction with the job and with leisure, which are negatively affected …
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Does the COVID-19 pandemic cause people unhappy? In this study, we use a recent survey from China, Japan, South Korea, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States to explore this question. We find a relatively large effect: a one per-mille point increase in the incidence of the COVID-19...
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Collective bargaining agreements have been said to decrease deployment since the work of Calmfors and Driffill (1988). We investigate empirically whether opening clauses, flexible elements that have been introduced to reduce the decline in coverage, can indeed minimise this effect and increase...
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This paper analyses the impact of opening clauses in German collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) on job flows. Opening clauses should provide firms with more flexibility in economic crises. Therefore, firms operating under a CBA with opening clauses are expected to have lower job turnover, in...
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We investigate the effect of job loss and unemployment benefits on criminal behavior, exploiting individual-level data on … are less subject to differential reporting by employment status. We then evaluate the mitigating effect of unemployment … benefits leveraging on discontinuous changes in eligibility. Regression discontinuity estimates suggest that unemployment …
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just after. The layoff costs and its procedural component are evaluated thanks to the estimation of a search and matching … the fragility of low-seniority jobs implies that layoff costs reduce the average job duration and increase unemployment …
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unemployment and active labor market programs (ALMPs), utilizing a reform that decreased dismissal costs for small firms only … unemployment and some ALMPs. Our results suggest that there was less screening of new hires after the reform, and that … liberalization of EPL mitigates the stigma associated with unemployment and participation in ALMPs. …
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