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Eckstein, Zvi; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2003

This paper surveys the existing empirical research that uses search theory to empirically analyze labor supply questions in a structural framework, using data on individual labor market transitions and durations, wages, and individual characteristics. The starting points of the literature are...

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Making Work Pay for the Elderly Unemployed: Evaluating Alternative Policy Reforms for Germany

Haan, Peter; Steiner, Viktor - 2006

We evaluate three policy reforms targeted at older unemployed people: (i) an hourly wage subsidy, (ii) an in-work credit, and (iii) a subsidy of social security contributions on low wages. The work incentive, labour supply and welfare effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the...

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Public works for Poland? Active labour market policies during transition

Puhani, Patrick A.; Steiner, Viktor - 1996

Following the predominance of macroeconomic stabilisation policies and passive income support schemes in the first phase of transition, active labour market policies (ALMPs) have now come to play a more important role in transition economies. This paper looks at the Polish experience and...

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Business Cycles and Compositional Variation in U.S. Unemployment

Abbring, Jaap H.; van den Berg, Gerard J.; van Ours, Jan C. - 1997

In the past decades several features of U.S. unemployment dynamics have been investigated empirically. The original … focus of research was on the duration of unemployment. In later studies the cyclicality of incidence and duration …, compositional effects and duration dependence of the exit rate out of unemployment have been investigated. Unlike the partial …

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Sharing the burden? Empirical evidence on corporate tax incidence

Dwenger, Nadja; Rattenhuber, Pia; Steiner, Viktor - 2013

This study empirically investigates the direct incidence of the corporate income tax through wage bargaining, using an industry-region level panel data set on all corporations in Germany over the period 1998 to 2006. Our measure of direct incidence for the first time accounts for employment...

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Sharing the burden: Empirical evidence on corporate tax incidence

Dwenger, Nadja; Rattenhuber, Pia; Steiner, Viktor - 2011

This study assesses the burden of capital income tax passed onto labor through wage bargaining over economic rents, using estimations based on a unique pseudo-panel data set from Germany for the period 1998 to 2006. Tax return data cover the universe of corporations subject to corporate income...

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An empirical assessment of assortative matching in the labor market

Mendes, Rute; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2007

In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workers may be assortative, meaning that the most productive workers and firms team up. We investigate this with longitudinal population-wide matched employer-emplyee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data...

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'Marginal Employment' and the Demand for Heterogenous Labour: Empirical Evidence from a Multi-Factor Labour Demand Model for Germany

Freier, Ronny; Steiner, Viktor - 2007

We develop a structural multi-factor labour demand model which distinguishes between eight labour categories including non-standard types of employment such as marginal employment. The model is estimated for both the number of workers and total working hours using a new panel data set. For...

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Combining Micro and Macro Unemployment Duration Data

van den Berg, Gerard J.; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2000

We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from … unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the … total inflow into unemployment. We estimate the model using (micro) survey data and (macro) administrative data from France …

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Employment and Wage Effects of Social Security Financing: An Empirical Analysis of the West German Experience and some Policy Simulations

Steiner, Viktor - 1996

This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un?)employment and wage effects of social security …

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