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Lost in Transition? Minimum Wage Effects on German Construction Workers

Bachmann, Ronald - 2012

well as the underlying labour market flows, at the establishment level. The fact that minimum wages in Germany are sector … accessions and separations rise in East Germany as a result of the minimum wage introduction. The evidence on detailed worker …-to-job transitions in East Germany, which can be explained by a more compressed wage distribution making on-the-job search less …

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High-School Dropouts and Transitory Labor Market Shocks : The Case of the Spanish Housing Boom

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 2010

This paper addresses the implications of transitory changes in labor market conditions for low versus high educated workers on the decision to acquire education. To identify this effect, I use the improvement in the labor market prospects of low educated workers motivated by the increases in...

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When Can Experimental Evidence Mislead? A Re-Assessment of Canada's Self Sufficiency Project

Riddell, Chris - 2016

The Self-Sufficiency Project was a well-known welfare-to-work experiment that provided a generous but time-limited financial incentive to leave welfare and enter the workforce. Experimental evidence showed large short-term impacts but no lasting effects. We argue that these conclusions need to...

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On the Escalation and De-Escalation of Conflict

Lacomba, Juan A. - 2013

We introduce three variations of the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict behavior and repeated interaction on the allocation of effort between production and appropriation. Without repeated interaction, destruction of resources by defeated...

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Risk, Delegation, and Project Scope

Roider, Andreas - 2021

This paper studies a partial-contracting model where an agent may provide effort to increase a project's scope before some later decisions have to be taken. Consistent with existing empirical evidence, we find a positive relationship between exogenous risk and delegation. That is, we show that...

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Project Aid and Firm Performance

Marchesi, Silvia; Masi, Tania; Paul, Saumik - 2022

This paper evaluates the effect of development project aid from the World Bank and China on firms' sales growth, using a large dataset of 110864 firms spanning 121 countries between 2001 and 2016. We find that, contrary to the World Bank, Chinese ODA projects increase, on average, firm sales...

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The Labour Market Position of Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands : Reason for Migration, Naturalisation and Language Proficiency

Euwals, Rob; Dagevos, Jaco; Gijsberts, Mérove; … - 2007

). First, we find that educational attainment and language proficiency have a higher return in the Netherlands than in Germany …, while for Germany we find a negative relation with tenured employment. The contrasting results on tenured employment may be … explained partly by differences in immigration rules. In Germany economic self-reliance is more important than in the …

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Benefit-Entitlement Effects and the Duration of Unemployment : An Ex-Ante Evaluation of Recent Labour Market Reforms in Germany

Schmitz, Hendrik; Steiner, Viktor - 2007

system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated on pre …

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Immigration, Integration and the Labour Market : Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands

Euwals, Rob; Dagevos, Jaco; Gijsberts, Mérove; … - 2007

Germany and the Netherlands. We compare labour market outcomes of Turkish immigrants, including both the first and second … large for Germany. Differences in past immigration policies between Germany and the Netherlands are likely to be important …

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The Heterogeneity and Cyclical Sensitivity of Unemployment : An Exploration of German Labor Market Flows

Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2008

individual-level data for West Germany for the period 1983 to 1994, this paper explores both the demographic heterogeneity of …

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