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Does unemployment help or hinder becoming independent? : the role of employment status for leaving the parental home
Jacob, Marita; Kleinert, Corinna - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2007
, welfare state, parents and partner. Resources of each can be pooled, and resources of other actors can compensate for own …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537108
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Who is targeted by One-Euro-Jobs? : a selectivity analysis
Hohmeyer, Katrin; Jozwiak, Eva - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
"In 2005 major reforms of the means-tested unemployment benefit system were implemented in Germany. One element of the reforms was to activate benefit recipients by a workfare programme, the so-called One-Euro-Job programme. More than 600,000 benefit recipients entered this programme in the year...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537145
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Pension and children : Pareto improvement with heterogeneous preferences
Gaggermeier, Christian - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2006
, which internalises positive externalities of children - their pension contributions. Individuals may differ in their … preferences for children and their ability to have children at all. They can choose between the status-quo flat-rate benefits and … a new system, in which they get just the benefits that are (on average) financed by their own children, reduced by an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537151
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A pilot study on the Vietnamese labour market and its social and economic context
Blien, Uwe; Phan thi Hong, Van - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2006
new institutional setting of a market economy. The absolute level of income and of the standard of living is still low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537125
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How does experience and job mobility determine wage gain in a transition and a non-transition economy? : the case of east and west Germany
Wolff, Joachim - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2006
"This paper studies individual log real wage change of east and west Germans over the period 1990/91 to 1995/96 using data from the German Socio-economic Panel. Parameters are estimated by median regression. Human capital theory and job mobility theories have implications for wage changes that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537171
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Income taxes, subsidies to education, and investments in human capital
Mendolicchio, Concetta; Paolini, Dimitri; Pietra, Tito - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011
with a flat labor income tax. Under suitable restrictions on the parameters, a revenue neutral progressive change in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876213
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Direct job creation in Germany revisited: Is it effective for welfare recipients and does it matter whether participants receive a wage?
Hohmeyer, Katrin; Wolff, Joachim - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2010
"Bringing welfare recipients into jobs is a major goal of German labour market policy since a reform of the year 2005. Direct job creation providing participants with temporary subsidized jobs mainly in the non-profit sector plays an important role for achieving this goal. There are three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008691828
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Measuring overeducation with earnings frontiers and multiply imputed censored income data
Jensen, Uwe; Gartner, Hermann; Rässler, Susanne - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2006
estimation of earnings frontiers: the censoring of the income data, by multiple imputation. Then, we estimate individual … potential income with stochastic earnings frontiers, and we measure overeducation as the ratio between actual income and … potential income. It is shown that the measurement of overeducation by this income ratio is a valuable addition to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537119
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Information asymmetry, education signals and the case of Ethnic and Native Germans
Hornig, Stephan O.; Rottmann, Horst; Wapler, Rüdiger - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009
"This paper analyses the effects of education signals for Ethnic Germans and Germans without a migration background ('Native Germans'). We base our analysis on a sorting model with productivity enhancing effects of education. We compare whether the signalling value differs between the migrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004973883
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The educational attainment of the second generation in Germany : social origins and ethnic inequality
Kristen, Cornelia; Granato, Nadia - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2007
"With the German Microcensus we study the second generation's educational attainment in Germany focusing on the descendants of classic labour migrants. Our results show that educational outcomes in terms of attending or completing the highest schooling track leading to the Abitur considerably...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005132554