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Price effects of minimum wages : evidence from the construction sector in East and West Germany
Werner, Thomas; Sell, Friedrich L.; Reinisch, David C. - 2013
In this paper, the authors present a new approach to estimate the impact of a minimum wage on the labor market of the construction sector in Germany. Instead of estimating the effect on employment, the authors focus on the change of prices on a firm level in order to differentiate between a...
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The effects of high-skilled immigration policy on firms : evidence from visa lotteries
Doran, Kirk B.; Gelber, Alexander M.; Isen, Adam - 2022
We compare winning and losing firms in lotteries for H-1B visas, matching administrative data on these lotteries to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013169915
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The Effects of High-Skilled Immigration Policy on Firms : Evidence from Visa Lotteries
Doran, Kirk; Gelber, Alexander M.; Isen, Adam - 2022
We compare winning and losing firms in lotteries for H-1B visas, matching administrative data on these lotteries to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030829
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The Effects of Youth Employment : Evidence from New York City Summer Youth Employment Program Lotteries
Gelber, Alexander - 2015
Programs to encourage labor market activity among youth, including public employment programs and wage subsidies like the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, can be supported by three broad rationales. They may: (1) provide contemporaneous income support to participants; (2) encourage work experience...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030966
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Skill mismatch and overeducation in transition economies : substantial skill shortages coexist with overeducation, affecting both young and old workers
Kupets, Olga - 2015
Large imbalances between the supply and demand for skills in transition economies are driven by rapid economic restructuring, misalignment of the education system with labor market needs, and underdeveloped adult education and training systems. The costs of mismatches can be large and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434453
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Active labor market policies
Crépon, Bruno; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2016
Active labor market policies are massively used with the objective being to improve labor market outcomes of individuals out of work. Many observational evaluation studies have been published. In this review, we critically assess policy effectiveness. We emphasize insights from recent randomized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580552
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Identifying asymmetric effects of labor market reforms
Gehrke, Britta; Weber, Enzo - 2017
search and matching theory, we propose an unobserved components approach with Markov switching to distinguish the effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011699536
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Active labor market policies
Crépon, Bruno; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2016
Active labor market policies are massively used with the objective being to improve labor market outcomes of individuals out of work. Many observational evaluation studies have been published. In this review, we critically assess policy effectiveness. We emphasize insights from recent randomized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011598126
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Decomposing a matching estimation : correlated unobserved non-random selection, substitution, and causal effects in a large scale ALMP Program in Germany ; conference paper
Brändle, Tobias; Fervers, Lukas; Webel, Carina - 2014 - Preliminary version
perform matching estimations to analyse the treatment effect on the treated. In the cross-section estimation, we find …-participants. Therefore, we combine matching with difference-in-difference estimation (to control for unobserved heterogeneity), Doing so, we … matching estimation can be decomposed into a causal effect (6%-points), correlated unobserved heterogeneity and negative spill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487257
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Employment effects of vocational training : an evaluation using propensity score matching
Donato, Luisa; Migliore, Maria Christina; Poy, Samuele - In: Politica economica, journal of economic policy 34 (2018) 3, pp. 273-296
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