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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 …

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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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