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Mom's out : employment after childbirth and firm-level responses
Carta, Francesca; Casarico, Alessandra; De Philippis, Marta - 2024
This paper explores how firms respond to the exit of mothers from the labour market after childbirth. As an exogenous shifter in mothers' quits, we use a policy reform that extended the potential duration of unemployment benefits, which Italian mothers can receive also upon resigning within 12...
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The German statutory minimum wage and its effects on regional employment and unemployment
Bonin, Holger; Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Lichter, Andreas; … - 2019
This paper studies the effects of the introduction of Germany's statutory minimum wage in 2015 on employment and …
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A 22 percent increase in the German minimum wage : nothing crazy!
Bossler, Mario; Chittka, Lars; Schank, Thorsten - 2024
We present the first empirical evidence on the 22 percent increase in the German minimum wage, implemented in 2022, raising it from € 9.82 to € 10.45 in July and to € 12 in October. Leveraging the German Earnings Survey, a large and novel data source comprising around 8 million...
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The Effect of Minimum Wages on Labour Market Flows – Evidence from Germany
Bachmann, Ronald - 2016
, as well as accessions and separations and their underlying worker flows. The fact that minimum wages in Germany are … the minimum wage reduced worker flows in East Germany, the between approach yields positive effect on labour market … dynamics in West Germany. Our results can be explained by differences between East and West Germany with respect to the bite of …
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The effect of minimum wages on labour market flows : evidence from Germany
Bachmann, Ronald; Penninger, Marion; Schaffner, Sandra - 2015
, as well as accessions and separations and their underlying worker flows. The fact that minimum wages in Germany are … the minimum wage reduced worker flows in East Germany, the between approach yields positive effect on labour market … dynamics in West Germany. Our results can be explained by differences between East and West Germany with respect to the bite of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408468
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Minimum wages in concentrated labor markets
Popp, Martin - 2021
concentration turns out substantial in Germany. Absent wage floors, a 10 per-cent increase in labor market concentration makes firms …
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People versus machines in the UK : minimum wages, labor reallocation and automatable jobs
Lordan, Grace - 2019
This study follows the Lordan and Neumark (2018) analysis for the US, and examines whether minimum wage increases affect employment opportunities in automatable jobs in the UK for low-skilled low-wage workers. Overall, I find that increasing the minimum wage decreases the share of automatable...
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Job protection, minimum wage and unemployment
Cahuc, Pierre; Zylberberg, André - 1999
We analyze how wage setting institutions and job-security provisions interact on unemployment. The assumption that wages are renegotiated by mutual agreement only is introduced in a matching model with endogenous job destruction - la Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) in order to get wage profiles...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318147
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Unemployment transitions and the role of minimum wage : from pre-crisis to crisis and recovery
Andriopoulou, Eirini; Karakitsios, Alexandros - 2021
During the last decade, unemployment in Greece climbed up to 28%, almost quadrupling due to the economic crisis that hit Greece. In the present paper, we examine the determinants of the unemployment dynamics and the impact of the minimum wage on the probability of making a transition into and...
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Unemployment transitions and the role of minimum wage : from pre-crisis to crisis and recovery
Andriopoulou, Eirini; Karakitsios, Alexandros - In: IZA journal of labor policy 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-26
During the last decade, unemployment in Greece climbed up to 28%, almost quadrupling due to the economic crisis that hit Greece. In the present paper, we examine the determinants of the unemployment dynamics and the impact of the minimum wage on the probability of making a transition into and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013198902