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Labor Market Effects of COVID-19 in Sweden and its Neighbors : Evidence from Novel Administrative Data

Juranek, Steffen - 2020

'), Sweden decided for much lighter restrictions. Empirically, we use novel administrative data on weekly new unemployment and … furlough spells from all 56 regions of the Nordic countries to compare the labor market outcomes of Sweden with the ones of its … neighbors. Our evidence suggests that the labor markets of all countries were severely hit by the pandemic, although Sweden …

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Contracting out temporary help services in Germany

Jahn, Elke J.; Ochel, Wolfgang - 2005

Since 2003 the German Public Employment Service (PES) has been experimenting with the contracting out of various services. One of the new labour market programmes is the Personnel Service Agencies, which provide client firms with jobseekers on a temporary assignment basis and are responsible for...

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Local Labor Market Effects of the 2002 Bush Steel Tariffs

Lake, James; Liu, Ding - 2022

President Bush imposed safeguard tariffs on steel in early 2002. Using US input-output tables and a generalized difference-in-difference methodology, we analyze the local labor market employment effects of these tariffs depending on the local labor market’s reliance on steel as an input and as...

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Global Value Chains, Trade Shocks and Jobs : An Application to Brexit

Vandenbussche, Hylke - 2019

We develop a network trade model with country-sector level input-output linkages. It includes (1) domestic and global value chain linkages between all country-sectors, (2) direct as well as indirect shipments (via other sectors and countries) to a final destination, (3) value added rather than...

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The Econometrics and Economics of the Employment Effects of Minimum Wages : Getting from Known Unknowns to Known Knowns

Neumark, David - 2019

I discuss the econometrics and the economics of past research on the effects of minimum wages on employment in the United States. My intent is to try to identify key questions raised in the recent literature, and some from the earlier literature, which I think hold the most promise for...

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Service Offshoring and Export Experience

Berlingieri, Giuseppe; Ornelas, Emanuel; Marcolin, Luca - 2021

Service inputs are a key component of the costs of exporting, and contribute to explain the process of internationalization of firms. A new dataset on the participation of French firms in global value chains reveals that firms with longer export experience in a market are more likely to source...

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The Role of Short-Time Work and Discretionary Policy Measures in Mitigating the Effects of the COVID-19 Crisis in Germany

Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; Hufkens, Tine; … - 2021

In this paper, we investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on German household income using a micro-level approach. We combine a microsimulation model with labour market transition techniques to simulate the COVID-19 shock on the German labour market. We find the consequences of the...

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Labor Market Effects of a Minimum Wage : Evidence from Ecuadorian Monthly Administrative Data

Choi, Jaerim; Rivadeneyra, Ivan; Ramirez, Kenia - 2021

When Ecuador raised its monthly Unified Minimum Wage from $170 to $200 in 2008, it affected 35 percent of all private sector workers. We use this unexpected minimum wage hike under former president Rafael Correa to assess the labor market impacts of the minimum wage. We use an administrative...

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Employment and Reallocation Effects of Higher Minimum Wages

Drechsel-Grau, Moritz - 2023

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 worker and firm heterogeneity. I find that minimum wages...

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The Labour Market Returns to Sleep

Costa-Font, Joan; Fleche, Sarah; Pagan, Ricardo - 2022

The proportion of people sleeping less than the daily-recommended hours has increased. Yet, we know little about the labour market returns to sleep. We use longitudinal data from Germany and exploit exogenous variation in sleep duration induced by time and local variations in sunset time. We...

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