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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 Measurement of Persistence and Hysteresis in Aggregate Unemployment.

Mikhail, Ossama; Eberwein, Curtis J.; Handa, Jagdish - EconWPA - 2003

unemployment persistence. …

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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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On the Evidence of Non-Linear Structure in Canadian Unemployment.

Mikhail, Ossama; Eberwein, Curtis J.; Handa, Jagdish - EconWPA - 2003

In this paper, we focus on and examine the empirical evidence of non- linearity in aggregate Canadian unemployment … reject the null hypothesis of a linear structure for Canadian unemployment. …

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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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