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    <title>Lingering illness or sudden death? Pre-exit employment developments in German establishments</title>
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    <description>Title: Lingering illness or sudden death? Pre-exit employment developments in German establishments
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Fackler, Daniel; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear 'shadow of death' effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments shrink dramatically already several years before closure, employment growth rates differ strongly between exiting and surviving establishments, and this difference becomes stronger as exit approaches. We further show that prior to exit the workforce becomes on average more skilled, more female and older in exiting compared to surviving establishments. These effects are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach.</description>
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    <title>Trade, Superstars, and Welfare</title>
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    <description>Title: Trade, Superstars, and Welfare
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Kukharskyy, Bohdan
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: In recent decades, many countries experienced both a rise in top income shares and an increase of income inequality among the top earners. In this paper, I study the role of international trade as a catalyst for this development and analyze the associated welfare effects. I build a simple general equilibrium model that incorporates Lucas (1978) idea of individual heterogeneity regarding managerial talents into the framework of intra-industry trade with two symmetric countries. By scrutinizing effects of trade integration on entrepreneurial compensation and endogenous occupational decisions, this model can reproduce the observed pattern of income changes in the top percentiles. Despite positive joint welfare effects of trade liberalization, individual gains from trade may be non-monotonic in agents skills. While the welfare of workers and most productive entrepreneurs unambiguously rises, the least- and medium-productive entrepreneurs may be worse off, if their preferences for the traded goods are small enough.</description>
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    <title>Works Councils and Separations: Voice, Monopoly, and Insurance Effects</title>
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    <description>Title: Works Councils and Separations: Voice, Monopoly, and Insurance Effects
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Hirsch, Boris; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Using a large linked employer-employee data set for Germany, we find that the existence of a works council is associated with a lower separation rate to employment, in particular for men and workers with low tenure. While works council monopoly effects show up in all specifications, clear voice effects are only visible for low tenured workers. Works councils also reduce separations to non-employment, and this impact is more pronounced for men. Insurance effects only show up for workers with tenure of more than one year. Our results indicate that works councils primarily represent the interests of a specific clientele.</description>
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    <title>The Effect of University Openings on Local Human Capital Formation: Difference-in-Differences Evidence from Germany</title>
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    <description>Title: The Effect of University Openings on Local Human Capital Formation: Difference-in-Differences Evidence from Germany
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Siegler, Benedikt
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Between 1960 and 1979, 93 new universities opened in Germany. Using this large tertiary education expansion, I estimate the effect of a university opening on the probability of obtaining a university degree in the local population. I exploit the geographical variation in local university access in a difference-in-differences approach by comparing age cohorts in counties that were and were not affected by the opening. Results show that a new university increases the share of university graduates in a county by 8 to 10 percentage points. The effect seems to be mainly driven my females and immigrants.</description>
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