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The Statutory Minimum Wage in Germany and the Labor Demand Elasticities of Low-Skilled Workers: A Regression Discontinuity Approach with Establishment Panel Data

Kölling, Arnd - 2020

This study examines the influence of the statutory minimum wage on labor demand elasticities regarding low-skilled workers. For this, a regression discontinuity analysis is conducted using company panel data from 2013 to 2018. In addition, a possible endogeneity of the remuneration for...

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Refugee migration, labor demand, and local employment

Auer, Daniel; Götz, Lilia - 2021

Whether or not immigration negatively affects the labor market outcomes of natives is an ongoing debate. One of the challenges for empirical evidence is the simultaneity of supply- and demand-side effects. To isolate the demand side, we focus on recent refugees in Germany who are exogenously...

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Will robot replace workers? Assessing the impact of robots on employment and wages with meta-analysis

Guarascio, Dario; Piccirillo, Alessandro; Reljic, Jelena - 2024

This study conducts a meta-analysis to assess the effects of robotization on employment and wages, compiling data from 33 studies with 644 estimates on employment and a subset of 19 studies with 195 estimates on wages. We identify a publication bias towards negative outcomes, especially...

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The Impact of ICT on Working from Home: Evidence from EU Countries

Jerbashian, Vahagn; Vilalta-Bufi, Montserrat - 2020

technologies (ICT) is associated with a significant increase in the share of employees who work from home. Similar results hold … in ICT prices on working from home increases with age. A rationale for such a result is that the preference for working …

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On the Elasticity of Substitution between Labor and ICT and IP Capital and Traditional Capital

Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2024

, distinguishing between information and communication technologies (ICT), intellectual property (IP) capital, and traditional capital … elasticities of substitution between labor, an aggregate of ICT and IP capital, and traditional capital. The estimated elasticity … of substitution between ICT and IP capital is strictly below one implying gross complementarity. ICT and IP capital …

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The Dynamics of Labour Market Polarization in Chile: An Analysis of the Link Between Technical Change and Informality

Delaporte, Isaure; Peña, Werner - 2023

In spite of the growing literature on polarization, relatively little is known about the individual-level patterns underlying the decline of routine occupations and its link with informal employment in a middle-income country context. To shed light on this, we examine the ows of formal and...

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The impact of COVID-19 on health workers: A health labor market perspective to improve response

Bustamante Izquierdo, Juana Paola; Cometto, Giorgio; … - 2024

This paper uses a health labor market lens to examine the impact of COVID-19 on health workers, as well as relevant policy levers. It compiles a collection of literature using a standardized measurement framework to determine the impact of COVID-19 on health workers. It examines the relevant...

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Beyond technological explanations of employment polarisation in Spain

Sebastian, Raquel; Harrison, Scott - 2017

This paper presents new evidence on the evolution of job polarisation over time and across skill groups in Spain …-graduates and pushing their reallocation at the bottom part of the occupational skill distribution. The growth at the top …

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Heterogeneous Effects of Credit Constraints on SMEs’ Employment: Evidence from the Great Recession

Cornille, David; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan - 2018

This paper takes advantage of access to detailed matched bank-firm data to investigate whether and how employment decisions of SMEs have been affected by credit constraints in the wake of the Great Recession. Variability in banks’ financial health following the 2008 crisis is used as an...

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The Response of Firms to Maternity Leave and Sickness Absence

Schmutte, Ian M.; Skira, Meghan M. - 2020

The costs to a firm of employee absence depend on how easy it is to find a replacement. We study how firms respond to predictable, but uncertain, worker absences that arise from maternity and non-work-related sickness leave. Using administrative data on over two million spells of leave in...

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