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Estimating the Effect of Training on Unemployment Duration in West Germany - A Discrete Hazard-Rate Model with Instrumental Variables

Hujer, R.; Maurer, K.-O.; Wellner, M. - EconWPA - 1997

the duration of unemployment spells. The data basis used in this study is the German Socio-Economic- Panel (GSOEP) for … measures. Our main results show that training does have a significant short term effect of reducing unemploy-ment duration but …

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The Impact of Training on Unemployment Duration in West Germany -Combining a Discrete Hazard Rate Model with Matching Techniques-

Hujer, R.; Maurer, K.-O.; Wellner, M. - EconWPA - 1997

In this study we are concerned with the impact of vocational training on the individual's unemployment duration in West … unemployment duration. Our results indicate, that training raises the transition rate of unemployed into employment in the short as …

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The Impact of a Unionised Labour Market in a Schumpeterian Growth Model

Lingens, Jörg - EconWPA - 2002

relationship between unemployment and growth. We distinguish low-skilled and high-skilled labour and assume that a union bargains … over the low-skilled labour wage. This causes unemployment, but the growth e ect is ambiguous. On the one hand the higher …

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Bank loans, start-up subsidies and the survival of the new firms: an econometric analysis at the entrepreneur level

Bruno, CREPON; Emmanuel, DUGUET - EconWPA - 2004

We evaluate the impact of bank loans and start-up subsidies on the survival of the new firms. This work relies on the SINE94 survey that provides rich information on the entrepreneurs and their start-up projects. We use the propensity score matching methodology, in the case of multiple...

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Growth and Employment Effects of Unions in a Simple Endogenous Growth Model

Lingens, Jörg - EconWPA - 2002

In this paper we analyse the effects of simultaneous union wage bargaining in a simple two sector growth model. We show that the overall employment effect of unionisation is ambiguous and depends on the relative sectoral wage. Besides the employment effects we analyse how unionisation changes...

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