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Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, we focus on pre-migration employment dynamics, earnings uncertainty, and job change. Migrants are found to be negatively selected with respect to labor market outcomes, with a large drop in earnings and employment during the last few...
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employment and unemployment outcomes is very sensitive to the age range of the sample. We argue that this is because the … size increases employment and reduces unemployment. …
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In this paper we study the effect of small labor market entry cohorts on (un)employment in Western Germany. From a … theoretical point of view, decreasing cohort sizes may on the one hand reduce unemployment due to "inverse cohort crowding" or on … the other hand increase unemployment if companies reduce jobs disproportionately. Consequently, the actual effect of …
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the 2018-2021 period. The analysis focuses on the divergences in out-of-unemployment transitions and medium … detachment, prolonged periods of unemployment or a diminished success rate in reemployment. However, certain socio … disproportionate challenges during the pandemic. They were more inclined to transition into precarious employment arrangements and …
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During the crisis (2008-09) Germany experienced a huge decrease in GDP. Employment, however, remained surprisingly stable. A whole strand of literature has aimed at quantifying the contribution of short-time work to the German labour market miracle. In the course of this literature we estimate...
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labour market policy measures have a positive impact on the transition from chronic unemployment to non-subsidized employment …Individual unemployment spells are frequently interrupted by short casual employment, by participation in active labour … market policy (ALMP) measures or by periods outside the labour force. Such episodes end unemployment spells but afterwards …
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risk of persisting unemployment, however, remain specific problems of the elderly. Government sponsored programs to support …
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this episode assume that a worker leaving unemployment moves into full employment. We ask where the unemployed actually … went. Using and merging two large micro data sets, we account for the decrease of unemployment by computing inflows and … outflows between unemployment and 16 other labour market states. Direct flows between unemployment and full employment …
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The strong and sustained labour market upswing in Germany is widely recognized. In a developing literature, various relevant studies highlight different specific reasons. The underlying study, instead, simultaneously considers a broad set of factors in a unified methodological framework and...
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programming in the context of youth unemployment, particularly regarding where efforts to intensify youth absorption into …
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