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-cited economic policy advice that can hardly be justified empirically: Wage increases will result in significant employment losses … more strongly because the set employment losses do not materialise. There are no noticeable losses in growth and employment …
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of individuals’ employment and earnings to the damages, disruption, and rebuilding — particularly in the longer run. Our …
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Most of the existing evidence on the effectiveness of family leave policies comes from studies focusing on their impacts on affected families - that is, mothers, fathers, and their children - without a clear understanding of the costs and effects on firms and coworkers. We use data from Denmark...
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This paper studies the employment and reallocation effects of minimum wages in Germany in a search-and-matching model … with endogenous job search effort and vacancy posting, multiple employment levels, a progressive tax-transfer system, and …, hours worked and output without reducing employment. In frictional labor markets, however, reallocation takes time whenever …
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The public sector hires disproportionately more educated workers. To rationalize this finding, we propose a model with a perfectly competitive private sector, and non-Walrasian public sector. Our economy also features heterogeneity across individuals and jobs, and a simple sorting mechanism that...
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This paper explores the evidence for positive hysteresis in the labor market. Using data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth, we find that negative labor market outcomes during high-unemployment periods are mitigated by exposure to a high-pressure economy during the preceding...
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This paper evaluates the implications for employment, productivity and wages of allowing for more flexibility in weekly … sharing and the Full flexibility scenarios. She finds that the 2012 reform preserves employment and generates a 1.72% increase … in productivity. In the work sharing scenario, the increase in employment (1.86%) comes at the expense of a lower …
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This paper explores evidence for positive hysteresis in the labor market. Using data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth, we find that negative labor market outcomes during high unemployment periods are mitigated by exposure to a high-pressure economy during the preceding expansion....
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This paper explores the evidence for positive hysteresis in the labor market. Using data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth, we find that negative labor market outcomes during high unemployment periods are mitigated by exposure to a high-pressure economy during the preceding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012924924
) econometric approach that identifies the effects of shocks resulting from hurricanes. Based on the Quarterly Census of Employment … and Wages (QCEW) data on earnings and employment, the earnings of an average worker in Florida will increase as much as … counties; however, this is coupled with a slower growth rate in employment. Powerful hurricanes have greater effects than their …
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