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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...

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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 …

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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...

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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...

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