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Social Networks, Job Search Methods and Reservation Wages: Evidence for Germany

Caliendo, Marco; Schmidl, Ricarda; Uhlendorff, Arne - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

In this paper we analyze the relationship between social networks and the job search behavior of unemployed individuals. It is believed that networks convey useful information in the job search process such that individuals with larger networks should experience a higher productivity of informal...

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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

The German labor market reforms seem to be on the right track. However, they need to be adjusted especially on the organizational side to make them more effective. The labor market instruments can be concentrated on temporary company wage subsidies, training measures and financial incentives for...

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Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach

Caliendo, Marco; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Uhlendorff, Arne - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed … entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite … the disincentive effect of UI on unemployment duration, UI benefit generosity may also increase job match quality by …

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Unemployment Dynamics among Migrants and Natives

Uhlendorff, Arne; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

Unemployment rates are often higher for migrants than for natives. This could result from longer periods of … unemployment as well as from shorter periods of employment. This paper jointly examines male native-migrant differences in the … duration of unemployment and subsequent employment using German panel data and bivariate discrete time hazard rate models …

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Too Bad to Benefit?: Effect Heterogeneity of Public Training Programs

Rinne, Ulf; Schneider, Marc; Uhlendorff, Arne - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

This study analyzes the treatment effects of public training programs for the unemployed in Germany. Based on propensity score matching methods we extend the picture that has been sketched in previous studies by estimating treatment effects of medium-term programs for different sub-groups with...

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From No Pay to Low Pay and Back Again?: A Multi-State Model of Low Pay Dynamics

Uhlendorff, Arne - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

This study analyzes the mobility between three labor market states: working in low paid jobs, working in higher paid jobs and not working. Using German panel data I estimate dynamic multinomial logit panel data models with random effects taking the initial conditions problem and potential...

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Locus of Control and Job Search Strategies

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah; Uhlendorff, Arne - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

Standard job search theory assumes that unemployed individuals have perfect information about the effect of their search effort on the job offer arrival rate. In this paper, we present an alternative model which assumes instead that each individual has a subjective belief about the impact of his...

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Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Uhlendorff, Arne - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

incentives due to higher net earnings. Additional earnings during unemployment might lead to higher reservation wages prolonging … the duration of unemployment, yet also giving unemployed individuals more time to search for better and more stable jobs … evaluate the impact of marginal employment on unemployment duration and subsequent job quality, we consider a sample of fresh …

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