Josef Zweimüller

Benefit Entitlement and Unemployment Duration: The Role of Policy Endogeneity (2002)

This paper analyzes the impact of the Austrian Regional Extended Benefit Program (REBP) on the labor market outcomes for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular...

The Sucess of Job Applications: A New Approach to Program Evaluation

The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This paper evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement...

Armin Falk, Rafael Lalive, Josef Zweimüller

In this paper, we suggest a novel approach to program evaluation that allows identification of the causal effect of a training program on the likelihood of being invited to a job interview under weak...

The Effect Of Benefit Sanctions On The Duration Of Unemployment

How Changes in Financial Incentives Affect the Duration of Unemployment

This paper investigates the effectiveness of unemployment benefit sanctions in reducing unem-ployment duration. Swiss data on benefit sanctions allow us to separate the effect of a warning that a...

The success of job applications: a new approach to program evaluation

This paper studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance – the benefit replacement rate (RR) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) – affect the duration of...

Falk, Armin, Lalive, Rafael, Zweimüller, Josef

Mass Consumption, Exclusion and Unemployment

Patents in a Model of Endogenous Growth

We introduce non-homothetic preferences into a general equilibrium model of monopolistic competition and explore the impact of income inequality on the medium-run macroeconomic equilibrium. We find...

O'Donoghue, Ted, Zweimüller, Josef

This paper examines patent protection in an endogenous-growth model. Our aim is twofold. First, we show how the patent policies discussed by the recent patent-design literature can influence R&D in...

Ichino, Andrea, Schwerdt, Guido, Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf, Zweimüller, Josef

We use firm closure data from social security records for Austria 1978-1998 to investigate the effect of age on employment prospects. We rely on exact matching to compare workers displaced due to...

Andrea Ichino, Guido Schwerdt, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Josef Zweimüller

We use firm closure data from social security records for Austria 1978-1998 to investigate the effect of age on employment prospects. We rely on exact matching to compare workers displaced due to...

Too Old to Work, too Young to Retire?

Andrea Ichino, Guido Schwerdt, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Josef Zweimüller

We use firm closure data from social security records for Austria 1978-1998 to investigate the effect of age on employment prospects. We rely on exact matching to compare workers displaced due to...

Firm-specific Training: Consequences for Job Mobility

Zweimüller, Josef, Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf

This paper analyzes the impact of formal training on worker mobility. Using data from the Swiss Labor Force Survey, we find that on-the-job search activities and, to a smaller extent, actual job...

Benefit Entitlement and the Labor Market: Evidence from a Large-Scale Policy Change

Lalive, Rafael, Zweimüller, Josef

This paper analyzes the impact of the Austrian Regional Extended Benefit Program (REBP) on the labor market outcomes for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular...

Structural Change and the Kaldor Facts of Economic Growth

Benefit Entitlement and Unemployment Duration: The Role of Policy Endogeneity

We present a model in which two of the most important features of the long-run growth process are reconciled: the massive changes in the structure of production and employment; and the Kaldor facts...

Lalive, Rafael, Zweimüller, Josef

The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This paper evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular...

Job Creation and Job Destruction in a Regulated Labor Market: The Case of Austria

Stiglbauer, Alfred M., Stahl, Florian, Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf, Zweimüller, Josef

We study Austrian job reallocation in the period of 1978 to 1998, using a large administrative dataset where we correct for "spurious" entries and exits of firms. We find that on average 9 out of 100...

The Success of Job Applications: A New Approach to Program Evaluation

Falk, Armin, Lalive, Rafael, Zweimüller, Josef

In this paper, we suggest a novel approach to program evaluation that allows identification of the causal effect of a training program on the likelihood of being invited to a job interview under weak...

Unemployment and Right-Wing Extremist Crime

Armin Falk, Josef Zweimüller

Right-wing extremism is a serious problem in many societies. A prominent hypothesis states that unemployment plays a crucial role for the occurrence of right-wing extremist crime. In this paper we...

Does Parental Leave Affect Fertility and Return-to-Work? Evidence from a "True Natural Experiment"

INNOVATION AND GROWTH WITH RICH AND POOR CONSUMERS

We study the causal effects of changes in parental leave provisions on fertility and return-towork behavior. We exploit a policy change that took place in 1990 in Austria which extended the maximum...

Josef Zweimüller, Johann K. Brunner

This work studies the impact of income inequality on the level of innovative activities in a model where innovations result in quality improvements. In contrast to the standard model of innovations...

Andrea Ichino, Guido Schwerdt, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Josef Zweimüller

We use firm closure data from social security records for Austria 1978-1998 to investigate the effect of age on employment prospects. We rely on exact matching to compare workers displaced due to...

The Impact of Active Labour Market Programmes on The Duration of Unemployment in Switzerland

Rafael Lalive, JanC. VanOurs, Josef Zweimüller

This article evaluates the effects of Swiss active labour market programmes on the job chances of unemployed workers. The main innovation is a comparison of two important dynamic evaluation...

Ichino, Andrea, Schwerdt, Guido, Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf, Zweimüller, Josef

We use firm closure data for Austria 1978-1998 to investigate the effect of age on employment prospects. We rely on exact matching to compare workers displaced by firm closure with similar...

The Impact of Active Labor Market Programs and Benefit Entitlement Rules on the Duration of Unemployment

Lalive, Rafael, Van Ours, Jan C., Zweimüller, Josef

Swiss policy makers created a unique link between unemployment benefits and Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) by making benefit payments conditional on program attendance after 7 months of...

The Effect of Benefit Sanctions on the Duration of Unemployment

Lalive, Rafael, Van Ours, Jan C., Zweimüller, Josef

This paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Data from the Swiss labor market allow making a distinction between the effect of a warning that a...

Integrating Severely Disabled Individuals into the Labour Market: The Austrian Case

Brigitte Humer, Jean-Philippe Wuellrich, Josef Zweimüller

We study the impact of the Austrian Employment Act for the Disabled which grants extended employment protection, requires a hiring quota for firms, and subsidizes the employment of severely disabled...

Benefit Entitlement and Unemployment Duration: The Role of Policy Endogeneity

Lalive, Rafael, Zweimüller, Josef

The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This Paper evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular...

Retirement of Spouses and Social Security Reform

Falkinger, Josef, Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf, Zweimüller, Josef

The retirement decisions of spouses may be interdependent for various reasons: similarity of tastes, joint assets, sharing rules for income and housework, or complementarity of leisure. Because of...

Immigration and the Earnings of Young Native Workers

Do Immigrants Displace Native Workers? The Austrian Experience

One of the most controversial aspects of immigration policy is the impact of foreigners on labour market outcomes of natives. Simple labour supply analysis demonstrates that these effects depend upon...

East European Trade and the Austrian Labour Market

This paper studies the effect of increased immigration in Austria on the risk to natives of becoming unemployed. Austria experienced a dramatic rise in the share of alien workers as a result of the...

Aiginger, Karl, Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf, Zweimüller, Josef

Recent years have seen a major structural break in trade relations between West European countries and the former Eastern bloc. Austria experienced a disproportionately large bilateral trade creation...

Immigration, Trade, and Austrian Unemployment

Intra-firm Wage Dispersion and Firm Performance

In this paper we look at the effects of immigration and trade with Eastern Europe on unemployment in Austria. Using individual data over the period 1989-92 of male blue-collar workers employed in the...

Innovation and Growth with Rich and Poor Consumers

Personnel economics has suggested conflicting arguments about the impact of increased wage dispersion within firms on workers’ productivity and firm performance. Besides giving more advancement...

Brunner, Johann K, Zweimüller, Josef

This paper studies the impact of income inequality on the level of innovative activity in a model where innovations result in quality improvements. The market for quality goods is characterized by a...

Learning for Employment, Innovating for Growth

Falkinger, Josef, Zweimüller, Josef

We present a model in which workers have to be educated to get employed and firms have to innovate in order to increase productivity. Education as well as innovation and production require skilled...

Schumpeterian Entrepreneurs Meet Engel's Law: The Impact of Inequality on Innovation-Driven Growth

Zweimüller, Josef

This paper analyses the impact of inequality on growth when technical progress is driven by innovations. It is assumed that consumers have hierarchic preferences. As a result inequality affects...

Patents in a Model of Endogenous Growth

O'Donoghue, Edward, Zweimüller, Josef

This paper examines patent protection in an endogenous-growth model. Our aim is two-fold. First, we show how the patent policies discussed by the recent patent-design literature can influence R&D in...

The Impact Of Active Labour Market Policies And Benefit Entitlement Rules On The Duration Of Unemployment

Lalive, Rafael, Van Ours, Jan C, Zweimüller, Josef

We evaluate the effect of active labour market programs on the duration of unemployment in a reward or punish system. In Switzerland, unemployment benefits are conditional upon program attendance...

The Effect of Benefit Sanctions on the Duration of Unemployment

Lalive, Rafael, Van Ours, Jan C, Zweimüller, Josef

This Paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Data from the Swiss labour market allow making a distinction between the effect of a warning that a...

Structural Change and the Kaldor Facts of Economic Growth

Job Creation and Job Destruction in a Regulated Labour Market: The Case of Austria

We present a model in which two of the most important features of the long-run growth process are reconciled: the massive changes in the structure of production and employment; and the Kaldor facts...

Stahl, Florian, Stiglbauer, Alfred M., Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf, Zweimüller, Josef

We study Austrian job reallocation in the period of 1978–98, using a large administrative dataset where we correct for ‘spurious’ entries and exits of firms. We find that on average nine out of...

The Success of Job Applications: A New Approach to Programme Evaluation

Falk, Armin, Lalive, Rafael, Zweimüller, Josef

In this Paper, we suggest a novel approach to programme evaluation that allows identification of the causal effect of a training programme on the likelihood of being invited to a job interview under...

Income Distribution and Demand-Induced Innovations

How Changes in Financial Incentives Affect the Duration of Unemployment

We utilize Schmookler’s (1966) concept of demand-induced invention to study the role of income inequality in an endogenous growth model. As rich consumers can satisfy more wants than poor...

Lalive, Rafael, Van Ours, Jan C, Zweimüller, Josef

This paper studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance – the benefit replacement rate (RR) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) – affect the duration of...

Unemployment and Right-Wing Extremist Crime

Falk, Armin, Zweimüller, Josef

Right-wing extremism is a serious problem in many societies. A prominent hypothesis states that unemployment plays a crucial role for the occurrence of right-wing extremist crime. In this paper we...

Does the Color of the Collar Matter? Firm Specific Human Capital and Post-Displacement Outcomes

Schwerdt, Guido, Ichino, Andrea, Ruf, Oliver, Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf, Zweimüller, Josef

We investigate whether the costs of job displacement differ between blue collar and white collar workers. In the short run earnings and employment losses are substantial for both groups but stronger...

Does the color of the collar matter? Firm specific human capital and post-displacement outcomes

Guido Schwerdt, Andrea Ichino, Oliver Ruf, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Josef Zweimüller

We investigate whether the costs of job displacement differ between blue collar and white collar workers. In the short run earnings and employment losses are substantial for both groups but stronger...

Do immigrants displace young native workers: The Austrian experience

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Josef Zweimüller

This paper studies the effect of increased immigration in Austria on the unemployment risk of young natives. Austria experienced a dramatic rise in the share of alien workers as a result of the...

Does the color of the collar matter? Firm specific human capital and post-displacement outcomes

Guido Schwerdt, Andrea Ichino, Oliver Ruf, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Josef Zweimüller

We investigate whether the costs of job displacement differ between blue collar and white collar workers. In the short run earnings and employment losses are substantial for both groups but stronger...

On-the-job-training, job search and job mobility

Josef Zweimüller, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

This paper analyzes the impact of formal training on worker mobility. Using data from the Swiss Labor Force Survey, we find that both general and specific training significantly affects on-the-job...

Benefit Entitlement and the Labor Market: Evidence from a Large-Scale Policy Change

The Effect of Benefit Sanctions on the Duration of Unemployment

This paper analyzes the impact of the Austrian Regional Extended Benefit Program (REBP) on the labor market outcomes for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular...

Structural Change and the Kaldor Facts of Economic Growth

This paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Data from the Swiss labor market allow making a distinction between the effect of a warning that a...

Reto Foellmi, Josef Zweimüller

We present a model in which two of the most important features of the long-run growth process are reconciled: the massive changes in the structure of production and employment; and the Kaldor facts...

Benefit Entitlement and Unemployment Duration - The Role of Policy Endogeneity

How changes in Financial Incentives Affect the Duration of Unemployment

The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This paper evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular...

Rafael Lalive, Jan Van Ours, Josef Zweimüller

This paper studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance – the benefit replacement rate (RR) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) – affect the duration of...

Income Distribution and Demand-induced Innovations

Reto Foellmi, Josef Zweimüller

We utilize Schmookler’s (1966) concept of demand-induced invention to study the role of income inequality in an endogenous growth model. As rich consumers can satisfy more wants than poor...

Unemployment and Right-Wing Extremist Crime

Armin Falk, Josef Zweimüller

Right-wing extremism is a serious problem in many societies. A prominent hypothesis states that unemployment plays a crucial role for the occurrence of right-wing extremist crime. In this paper we...

Does Parental Leave Affect Fertility and Return-to-Work? Evidence from a ”True Natural Experiment”

Firm-specific training: Consequences for job mobility

We study the causal effects of changes in parental leave provisions on fertility and return-to-work behavior. We exploit a policy change that took place in 1990 in Austria which extended the maximum...

Josef Zweimüller, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer

This paper analyzes the impact of formal training on worker mobility. Using data from the Swiss Labor Force Survey, we find that on-the-job search activities and, to a smaller extent, actual job...

Job creation and job destruction in a regulated labor market: The case of Austria

Alfred M Stiglbauer, Florian Stahl, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Josef Zweimüller

We study Austrian job reallocation in the period of 1978 to 1998, using a large administrative dataset where we correct for "spurious" entries and exits of firms. We find that on average 9 out of 100...

Job Creation and Job Destruction in a Regulated Labor Market: The Case of Austria

Alfred Stiglbauer, Florian Stahl, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Josef Zweimüller

We study Austrian job reallocation in the period of 1978 to 1998, using a large administrative dataset where we correct for Â“spuriousÂ” entries and exits of firms. We find that on average 9...

Partial retirement and the earnings test

Josef Zweimüller

Structural change, Engel's consumption cycles and Kaldor's facts of economic growth

Austrian social security database

Non-linear Engel-curves for consumer goods cause continuous structural change. Goods are sequentially introduced starting out as a luxury with high income elasticity and ending up as a necessity with...

Josef Zweimüller, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Rafael Lalive, Andreas Kuhn, Jean-Philippe Wuellrich, Oliver Ruf, ...

The Austrian Social Security Database (ASSD) is a matched firm-worker data set, which records the labor market history of almost 11 million individuals from January 1972 to April 2007. Moreover, more...

Austrian Social Security Database

Josef Zweimüller, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Rafael Lalive, Andreas Kuhn, Jean-Philippe Wuellrich, Oliver Ruf, ...

The Austrian Social Security Database (ASSD) is a matched firm-worker data set, which records the labor market history of almost 11 million individuals from January 1972 to April 2007. Moreover, more...

Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben

Brügger, Beatrix, Lalive, Rafael, Zweimüller, Josef

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local comparisons across a language barrier in Switzerland. This Röstigraben separates...

Do Financial Incentives for Firms Promote Employment of Disabled Workers? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Lalive, Rafael, Wuellrich, Jean-Philippe, Zweimüller, Josef

We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment Act (DPEA) requires firms to provide at least one job to a disabled worker per...

Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben

Beatrix Brügger, Rafael Lalive, Josef Zweimüller

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local comparisons across a language barrier in Switzerland. This Röstigraben separates...

Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben

Brügger, Beatrix, Lalive, Rafael, Zweimüller, Josef

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local comparisons across a language barrier in Switzerland. This Röstigraben seperates...

The public health costs of job loss

Andreas Kuhn, Rafael Lalive, Josef Zweimüller

We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem...

The Public Health Costs of Job Loss

Kuhn, Andreas, Lalive, Rafael, Zweimüller, Josef

We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem...

The Public Health Costs of Job Loss

Kuhn, Andreas, Lalive, Rafael, Zweimüller, Josef

We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem...

Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben

Beatrix Brügger, Rafael Lalive, Josef Zweimüller

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empir- ical analysis is based on local comparisons across a language barrier in Switzerland. This Röstigraben separates...

The Public Health Costs of Job Loss

Andreas Kuhn, Rafael Lalive, Josef Zweimüller

We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem...

Do Financial Incentives for Firms Promote Employment of Disabled Workers? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Rafael Lalive, Jean-Philippe Wuellrich, Josef Zweimüller

We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment Act (DPEA) requires firms to provide at least one job to a disabled worker per...

Unemployment and Right-wing Extremist Crime

Falk, Armin, Kuhn, Andreas, Zweimüller, Josef

It is frequently argued that unemployment plays a crucial role for the occurrence of right-wing extremist crimes. We empirically test this hypothesis using data from Germany. We find that right-wing...

How does Parental Leave Affect Fertility and Return to Work? Evidence from Two Natural Experiments