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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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Optimal Tax Progressivity in Unionised Labour Markets : Simulation Results for Germany

Boeters, Stefan - 2010

numerical model for Germany. The model combines a microsimulation module, which captures the labour-supply decisions of …

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The Heterogeneous Effects of Training Incidence and Duration on Labor Market Transitions

Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2010

start. The effects are higher for women than for men and higher in West Germany than in East Germany. Further, we find that …

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Explaining the Employability Gap of Short-Term and Long-Term Unemployed Persons

Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2008

This paper analyzes the determinants of employability differences between short-term and long-term unemployed persons. Knowing these differences could help to address active labor market policy programs more adequately to the needs of the job-seekers in order to increase employment integration....

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Unemployment Persistence : Is There Evidence for Stigma Effects?

Steffes, Susanne - 2008

We present evidence for a highly significant interaction between state dependence in individual unemployment risk and the business cycle. The disadvantage from having been unemployed in the previous period is smaller in times of relatively high unemployment and larger in times of low...

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Unemployment Persistence : Is There Evidence for Stigma Effects?

Steffes, Susanne - 2008

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On the Definition of Unemployment and its Implementation in Register Data - The Case of Germany

Kruppe, Thomas - 2008

Unemployment information in individual level register data depends on institutional settings, administrative procedures and which registers are merged. In this paper we suggest different implementation strategies for common international and German legal unemployment definitions for the Sample...

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The Effects of Short-Term Training Measures on the Individual Unemployment Duration in West Germany

Hujer, Reinhard - 2008

on the individual unemployment duration in West Germany. By applying a multivariate mixed proportional hazards model, we …

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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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Jobs, Crime, and Votes – A Short-Run Evaluation of the Refugee Crisis in Germany

Gehrsitz, Markus - 2016

Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one million arriving in Germany alone …

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