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Benefit-Entitlement Effects and the Duration of Unemployment: An Ex-ante Evaluation of Recent Labour Market Reforms in Germany

Schmitz, Hendrik; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

compensation system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated …

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Imposed Benefit Sanctions and the Unemployment-to-Employment Transition: The German Experience

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

positive short- and long-term effects of benefit sanctions which are robust for men and women in East and West Germany. The …

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Konzentration statt Verzettelung: die deutsche Arbeitsmarktpolitik am Scheideweg

Schneider, Hilmar; Eichhorst, Werner; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

, training measures and financial incentives for business start-ups. It is essential to increase incentives, intensify …

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"Marginal Employment": Stepping Stone or Dead End? Evaluating the German Experience

Freier, Ronny; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

with a small negative cumulative earnings effect for older workers in west Germany. …

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Self-Employment - a Way to End Unemployment?: Empirical Evidence from German Pseudo-Panel Data

Glocker, Daniela; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period 1996-2002. The estimation method accounts for cohort fixed effects and …

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Creating Low Skilled Jobs by Subsidising Market-Contracted Household Work

Brück, Tilman; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

We analyze the determinants of household work contracted in the German shadow economy. The German socio-economic household panel, which enumerates casual domestic employment, is used to estimate the demand for such household work. The regressors include regional wage rates, household income and...

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20 Years of German Unification: Evidence on Income Convergence and Heterogeneity

Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based …, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West Germany over the fifteen years for which data are available. Using a … highest negative income gap. This probably reflects out-migration from East Germany by the young and highly skilled. On the …

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And Then There Were Four ...: How Many (and Which) Measures of Active Labor Market Policy Do We Still Need? ; Finding a Balance after the Evaluation of the Hartz Reforms in Germany

Eichhorst, Werner; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

labor market policies in Germany. It argues in favor of a reduced range of active labor market policy schemes focusing on …

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