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Public procurement and supplier job creation : insights from auctions

Srhoj, Stjepan; Dragojević, Melko - 2021 - This draft October 4, 2021

Public procurement contracts (PPCs) of goods, services and works is about one tenth of global gross domestic product. Much research has been conducted on government spending and its aggregate effects, but evidence is scarce at the micro-level. This study exploits sealed-bid PPC auctions of...

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Effects of government spending on employment : evidence from winners and runners-up in procurement auctions

Gugler, Klaus; Weichselbaumer, Michael; Zulehner, Christine - 2018

, and compare the employment of the winner of an auction with the employment of the second ranked firm (i.e. the runner …-up firm). Assuming similar ex-ante winning probabilities for both firms, we may view winning an auction as an exogenous shock … labor demand in the weeks following an auction but only in the years before the recent economic crisis. It employs about 80 …

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Public Procurement and Supplier Job Creation : Insights from Auctions

Srhoj, Stjepan - 2021

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Long-term unemployment and subsidizing vacancies in a growth-matching model

Birk, Angela - 2001

How can long-term unemployment be reduced by policy measures of the government? In this paper a growth-matching … wird ein Wachstums-Matching-Modell entwickelt, das durch heterogene Arbeitslose - Kurz- und Langzeitarbeitslose - und bei …

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Wage Rigidity and Job Creation

Häfke, Christian; Sonntag, Marcus; Rens, Thijs van - 2021

Standard macroeconomic models underpredict the volatility of unemployment fluctuations. A common solution is to assume wages are rigid. We explore whether this explanation is consistent with the data. We show that the wage of newly hired workers, unlike the aggregate wage, is volatile and...

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Short-time work subsidies in a matching model

Meier, Volker - 2018

demand and reduced working hours so as to stabilize workers' income. In a matching framework such an arrangement increases …

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Wage Rigidity and Job Creation

Häfke, Christian - 2007

Shimer (2005) and Hall (2005) have documented the failure of standard labor market search models to match business cycle fluctuations in employment and unemployment. They argue that it is likely that wages are not adjusted as regularly as suggested by the model, which would explain why...

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Minimum wage increases and vacancies

Kudlyak, Marianna; Tasci, Murat; Tüzemen, Didem - 2022

Using a unique data set and a novel identification strategy, we estimate the effect of minimum wage increases on job vacancy postings. Utilizing occupation-specific county- level vacancy data from the Conference Board's Help Wanted Online for 2005-2018, we find that state-level minimum wage...

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Minimum wage increases and vacancies

Kudlyak, Marianna; Tasci, Murat; Tüzemen, Didem - 2022

Using a unique data set and a novel identification strategy, we estimate the effect of minimum wage increases on job vacancy postings. Utilizing occupation-specific countylevel vacancy data from the Conference Board's Help Wanted Online for 2005-2018, we find that state-level minimum wage...

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Employment effects of restricting fixed-term contracts: theory and evidence

Cahuc, Pierre; Carry, Pauline; Malherbet, Franck; … - 2022

directed search and matching model with endogenous number of establishments and jobs. We find spillover effects that induce …

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