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Do Public Bank Guarantees Affect Labor Market Outcomes? Evidence from Individual Employment and Wages

We investigate whether employees in Germany benefit from public bank guarantees in terms of employment probability and wages. To that end, we exploit the removal of public bank guarantees in Germany in 2001 as a quasi-natural experiment. Our results show that bank guarantees lead to higher employment, but lower wage prospects for employees after working in affected establishments. Overall the results suggest that employees do not benefit from bank guarantees.

14. March 2024

Authors Laura Baessler Georg Gebhardt Reint E. Gropp Andre Guettler Ahmet Taskin

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