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This is the first paper to thoroughly investigate the employment effects of corporate taxation. Higher taxes are … theoretically shown to have a negative impact on employment through reduced investments, if labor is regionally mobile. I test this …-parametric and parametric evidence that employment declines if corporate tax rates increase. For given wages, a one euro increase in …
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This paper examines recent trends in employment patterns on the labor market for youth and changing returns to early … employment stability over the past four decades. True state dependence is identified by exploiting exogenous variation in …. The results indicate decreasing employment stability for youth since the late 1980s limited to the lower half of the …
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We estimate the causal effect of immigration on unemployment, employment and wages of resident employees in Switzerland … increased employment of residents in the last decade. …
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evolution of regional employment disparities. Therefore, this paper investigates the hypothesis of convergence for the total … employment rate and skill-specific employment rates of West German regional planning units for the time period 1989 to 2008. This … results indicate for stochastic convergence in the case of total and high-skilled employment rates whereas the hypothesis of …
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This paper investigates the effects of the deregulation of shop-opening hours legislation on retail employment in … legislation in order to identify the effect of product market deregulation on retail employment. We find robust evidence that the … deregulation had negative effects on retail employment, with considerable heterogeneity in terms of the type of employment as well …
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Governments are often willing to subsidize firms on the verge of bankruptcy. The main economic rationale behind these interventions is that a plant closure would not only harm the workers employed in that plant, but create a domino effect on the regional economy as a whole. Yet, little is still...
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This paper analyzes the labor supply response of married women to their husbands' job losses (Added Worker Effect) due to the recent economic crisis in Turkey. Identification is achieved by exploiting the exogenous variation in the output of male-dominated sectors hard-hit by the crisis....
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incidence for the first time accounts for employment effects which result from tax induced wage changes. Workers share in … about half of the effect obtained in prior literature under the assumption that employment remained constant. A focus on …
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Temporal work flexibility is often viewed as means to improve the reconciliation of family and work. By exploiting theGerman re-unification and the particularities of the labor market of the German Democratic Republic, I show that flexitime allows mothers to spend more time with their children....
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Demografischer Wandel und die strukturellen Veränderungen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt tragen gemeinsam zur Alterung des Beschäftigtenbestands bei. Während der demografische Wandel eine gesellschaftliche Entwicklung ist, variieren Arbeitsmarkttrends über Berufe. Basierend auf Beschäftigtendaten der...
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