Many countries limit how long a worker may be kept on a temporary contract, yet little is known about how firms and workers respond when this maximum duration is tightened. Does a shorter cap simply displace…
We revisit the employer size wage effect (ESWE)—arguably the most basic and influential departure from the law of one price for labor. Our main result is that this canonical fact disappears completely across…
This paper provides new causal evidence on how patent allowances affect firms and their employees based on quasi-random assignment of patent applications to examiners. Exploiting employer–employee records with…
Beschäftigte in Deutschland haben weltweit mit die höchsten krankheitsbedingten Fehlzeiten. Laut aktuellen Schätzungen belasten diese die Wirtschaft jährlich mit rund 77 Milliarden Euro. Vor diesem Hintergrund…
