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How Do Employment Effects of Job Creation Schemes Differ with Respect to the Foregoing Unemployment Duration?

Hujer, Reinhard - 2008

Based on new administrative data for Germany covering entrances into job creation schemes between July 2000 and May … into quarters, regional (East and West Germany) as well as gender differences are considered in the estimation. As matching … influences. The results in terms of employment present a mixed picture. For West Germany, most of the estimates are insignificant …

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Detecting Behavioural Additionality - an Empirical Study on the Impact of Public R&D Funding on Firms' Cooperative Behaviour in Germany

Aschhoff, Birgit - 2008

Subsidising research networks has become a popular instrument in technology policies, driven mainly by expected positive spillovers. In particular, the stimulation of Ramp;D co-operation between scientific institutions and industry is considered as most promising. In the context of policy...

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Do Voluntary Environmental Programs Reduce Emissions? EMAS in the German Manufacturing Sector

Kube, Roland - 2019

Voluntary environmental management programs for firms have become an increasingly popular instrument of environmental policy. However, the literature's conclusion on the effectiveness of suchprograms is ambiguous, and for the European region there is a lack of evidence based on a large control...

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The Effect of Electricity Taxation on the German Manufacturing Sector : A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Flues, Florens - 2015

Germany taxes electricity use since 1999. The government granted reduced rates to energy intensive firms in the …

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Short-Run Fertility Effects of Parental Leave Benefits : Evidence from a Structural Model

Stichnoth, Holger - 2014

dependence, we evaluate the 2007 reform of parental leave benefits in Germany, which replaced a flat, means-tested benefit by a …

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Heterogeneous Labour Markets in a Microsimulation-Age Model : Application to Welfare Reform in Germany

Boeters, Stefan - 2009

Labour market reforms that are designed to stimulate labour supply at the lower end of the wage distribution can never be precisely restricted to affect only the target group. Spillovers to and feedback from other segments of the labour market are unavoidable and may counteract the direct...

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Distributional and Behavioural Effects of the German Labour Market Reform

Clauss, Markus - 2009

We estimate the effects of the reform of the German Unemployment Insurance that replaced the wage related Unemployment Assistance with an income maintenance program and stronger means testing. We model the tax-benefit system and use the Socio-Economic Panel. We estimate a discrete labour supply...

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Emissions Trading and Productivity : Firm-Level Evidence from German Manufacturing

Lutz, Benjamin Johannes - 2016

I study the causal effect of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) on the productivity of German manufacturing firms. Using administrative firm-level data, I estimate robust production functions for narrowly defined industries. This approach allows for an endogenous dynamic...

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Do Savings Increase in Response to Salient Information About Retirement and Expected Pensions?

Dolls, Mathias - 2016

How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system to study this question. As of 2004, the German pension authority started to send out annual letters providing detailed and comprehensible information about the pension system...

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Fixing the Leak : Unemployment Incidence Before and After the 2006 Reform of Unemployment Benefits in Germany

Dlugosz, Stephan; Stephan, Gesine; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2010

The law on labour market reforms has severely limited the maximum benefit period for the elderly; with cuts of up to 14 months, depending on the age group. Our paper examines this natural experiment and shows that for the age groups in question, the transition rates from employment to...

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