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Dauth, Wolfgang - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2014

upper and lower tails of the wage distribution, while employment in the middle part of the distribution has stagnated or …"The labor markets of most industrialized countries are polarized. This means that employment has grown in jobs at the …

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Individual and workplace-specific determinants of paid and unpaid overtime work in Germany

Zapf, Ines - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015

, the length of the training period on the job as well as job related burdens due to a job at risk and a limited employment …

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On the efficiency properties of the Roy's model under asymmetric information

Mendolicchio, Concetta; Pietra, Tito - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2014

"We consider Roy's economies with perfectly competitive labor markets and asymmetric information. Firms choose their investments in physical capital before observing the characteristics of the labor markets they will face. We provide conditions under which equilibrium allocations are constrained...

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Selektivität beim Zugang in Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen : die Bedeutung individueller und struktureller Faktoren am Beispiel der "Initiative zur Flankierung des Strukturwandels"

Fertig, Michael; Osiander, Christopher - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012

employment spells or longer duration in the unemployment insurance system exhibit a significantly higher probability of …

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Employers' selection behavior during short-time work

Scholz, Theresa - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012

"During the recession of 2008-09 Germany experienced a huge decrease in GDP. Employment, however, remained surprisingly … a unique linked-employer-employee data set on short-time workers in the district of the employment agency of Nuremberg …. We use methods of event history analysis to estimate transition rates from regular employment to short-time work. Our …

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Asymmetric information and overeducation

Mendolicchio, Concetta; Paolini, Dimitri; Pietra, Tito - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012

"We consider an economy where production may use labor of two different skill levels. Workers are heterogeneous and, by investing in education, self-select into one of the two skills. Ex-ante, when firms choose their investments in physical capital, they do not know the level of human capital...

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Determinanten der Weiterbildungsbereitschaft gering qualifizierter Arbeitsloser

Osiander, Christopher - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012

"Publicly sponsored vocational training programs are important measures of active labor market policies in Germany. A crucial factor for their success is that unemployed are willing to participate in further training. This paper deals with individual determinants of willingness to participate,...

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Short-term training variety for welfare recipients: the effects of different training types

Kopf, Eva - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"Since 2005, jobless employable individuals have to be available for the labour market with various activation programmes helping them. One major programme is short-term training teaching certain skills or assisting in job search. However, little is known about the effectiveness of such a short...

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Parental risk attitudes and children's secondary school track choice

Heineck, Guido; Wölfel, Oliver - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2010

"It is well known that individuals' risk attitudes are related to behavioral outcomes such as smoking, portfolio decisions, and also educational attainment, but there is barely any evidence on whether parental attitudes affect the educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this...

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Do changing institutional settings matter? : educational attainment and family related employment interruptions in Germany

Drasch, Katrin - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011

responsible for the educational divide in mothers' employment. Hypotheses are derived from human capital theory and labor supply …

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