دانلود رایگان مقاله اثرات سطح شرکت و سطح کارکنان یک برنامه یارانه ای دستمزد برای کارکنان با تحصیلات بالا: مدارک از دانمارک

abstract

We study the effects of a Danish wage subsidy program for highly educated workers on the performance of the persons and firms participating in the program. Using data on the population of program participants, both workers and firms, we find that the program had positive effects on employment and annual earnings during program participation while there are no positive effects for the years after program expiration. At the employer-level, we find statistically significant effects on the number of highly educated employees for both the period of program participation and the subsequent time period. For the total number of employees we only find positive effects during program participation while there are no statistically significant effects for value added, net income, return on assets, wages per employee and labor productivity.

5. Conclusions

This paper sought to contribute to the recent debate on active labor market programs for high skilled labor by analyzing the consequences of a wage subsidy program for workers with higher secondary and tertiary education that was launched in Denmark in 2005, the “Innovation assistant” (IA) scheme. We used data on the population of persons and firms enrolled in the program to study the effects of this policy measure on both persons’ labor market outcomes and firms’ performance using conditional difference-indifferences analysis where we control for a wide range of observed characteristics