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Do Austrian men and women become more equal? : at least in terms of labor supply!
Wernhart, Georg; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2008
We study the development of wage elasticity of labor supply for Austrian men and women over time using comparable and representative survey data for the 1980s and 1990s. The elasticity of men is relatively low and constant over time, similar to the behavior of single women. Most remarkable is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009238450
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When and how to create a job : the survival of new jobs in Austrian firms
Böheim, René (contributor); Stiglbauer, Alfred (contributor) - 2005
While the volatility of job creations has been studied extensively, the survival chances of new jobs are less researched. The question when and how to expand a firm is of importance, both from the firms and from a macro perspective. Adjustment cost theories and arguments about option values of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002815677
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When and how to create a job : the survival of new jobs in Austrian firms
Böheim, René; Stiglbauer, Alfred; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2005
While the volatility of job creations has been studied extensively, the survival chances of new jobs are less researched. The question when and how to expand a firm is of importance, both from the firm’s and from a macro perspective. Adjustment cost theories and arguments about option values...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009748275
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On the persistence of firm expansion : the survival of new jobs in Austrian firms
Böheim, René; Stiglbauer, Alfred; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2005
While the volatility of job creations has been studied extensively, the survival chances of new jobs are less researched. The question when and how to expand a firm is of importance, both from the firm’s and from a macro perspective. Adjustment cost theories and arguments about option values...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729669
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On the persistence of job creation in old and new firms
Böheim, René; Stiglbauer, Alfred; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2008
We suggest a new method to analyze the success of firm creation by looking at the persistence of new jobs created in old and in new firms. Compared to survival rates of new versus old firms, this measure has the advantage that the sustainability of job creation in different circumstances is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009238451
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Automation, offshoring, and the role of public policies
Schmidpeter, Bernhard; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2019
on the job finding rate but we find mixed effects in terms of post-unemployment wages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137059
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The subjective well-being of workfare participants : insights from a day reconstruction survey
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weimann, Joachim - 2015
In this paper, we shed more light on the subjective well-being of workfare participants and compare it to the well-being of unemployed and employed workers. We use data from a self-conducted survey among participants in workfare schemes in Germany. We examine two subdimensions of subjective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280847
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Women's labor market responses to their partners' unemployment and low-pay employment
Keldenich, Carina; Knabe, Andreas - 2018
Socio-Economic Panel we show that women respond to their partners' unemployment with an increase in labor market …-effects separately, revealing differences in the relationships between women's labor market statuses and their partners' unemployment in … similar to that of his unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011936292
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Changing identity : retiring from unemployment
Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2011
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2009, we follow persons from their working life into their retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357440
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Fertility and economic instability : the role of unemployment and job displacement
Del Bono, Emilia; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2014
In this paper we study the separate effects of unemployment and job displace- ment on fertility in a sample of white … collar women in Austria. Using an instru- mental variables approach we show that unemployment incidence as such has no … so irrespective of the incidence or the duration of the associated unemployment spell. …
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