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context of the COVID-19 crisis in Germany. Employment responses differed widely across local labour markets, with differences … often adopted in regions with higher digital capital. But digital capital smoothed the employment shock beyond the effect of …
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sector employment to estimate the local employment multiplier. We find that the introduction of one public sector employment … neighborhoods; this effect is also localized. Lastly, by estimating the local employment multiplier for each relocation site, we … document the heterogeneity of the local employment multiplier and provide suggestive evidence that this het-erogeneity is …
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, and (iii) employment protection - shape fiscal multipliers and output volatility. Our theoretical model highlights that … emanate from employment protection, followed by union density. While some labor market institutions mitigate the …
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unconventional employment consequences of such shocks at a general equilibrium of a multi-sector competitive economy. A labour market … competition. Subsequent reforms however raises aggregate employment. Thus, we may have a J-curve like employment response to … adverse employment effect. Our findings add to the growing body of literature that challenges conventional wisdom about labour …
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employment data. We estimate local job multipliers of green penetration in a long-difference model, using a shift … penetration per worker increases the employment-to-active population ratio by 0.11 pp. The effect is: persistent both in …
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This paper revisits an important analysis of enterprise zones (EZs) by Ham, Swenson, Imrohoroğlu, and Song (2011), who report substantial poverty reductions from state and federal EZs, as well as improvements in other labor market outcomes. In our re-analysis, we find that a data error accounts...
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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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This paper empirically examines the impact of labour market counter-reforms on real GDP per capita and employment … employment protection legislation (EPL), which we further split into counter-reforms for regular and temporary workers, and …
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, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter …
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