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"The vocational qualification in Germany is crucial for a successful participation in the labour market. Persons without a vocational certification carry a clearly higher risk to become jobless and they have problems to gain a sustained foothold in the labour market. In contrast, at the upper...
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"Empirical studies indicate that the gender wage gap is lower under collectively negotiated contracts than in firms not bound by such contracts. It is, however, a largely open question, how the organization and the process of collective negotiations affect the gender wage gap. In the period from...
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understand ungoing development. A pure sequence of employment and unemployment figures would hide the turnover in the market … describes the transition process of the labour market on the regional level and contains all 180 local employment agencies in … agency Heilbronn some practice and numerical examples. Thus we present transitions into and out of unemployment and also from …
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understand ungoing development. A pure sequence of employment and unemployment figures would hide the turnover in the market … describes the transition process of the labour market on the regional level and contains all 180 local employment agencies in … agency Heilbronn some practice and numerical examples. Thus we present transitions into and out of unemployment and also from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537122
"This paper analyses theoretical effects of minimum wages on employment and the wage distribution under a frictional … setting. I review new developments in search theory and discuss the influence of minimum wages on wages and employment under … market in equilibrium search models. In the homogeneous case minimum wages do not affect employment, while in the …
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"This paper analyses theoretical effects of minimum wages on employment and the wage distribution under a frictional … setting. I review new developments in search theory and discuss the influence of minimum wages on wages and employment under … market in equilibrium search models. In the homogeneous case minimum wages do not affect employment, while in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537096
'encouragement plus obligations' and were expected to result in a greater number of persons registering at the employment offices … many people not to register. Moreover, as a significant part of the hidden labour force participates in employment and … estimations show that alongside official unemployment there is still a considerable hidden labour force of persons who are willing …
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Women's Re-entry into the Labor Market', conducted by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). The pilot program aims at … supporting the re-entry of women into the labor market after a family-related absence from employment for at least three years … Employment Office, the program was implemented across Germany by 28 project executing agencies with partially different concepts …
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Establishment Panel (Fischer et al. 2009) shed light on the employment patterns of men and women from an establishment's perspective … does female and male employment differ? To what extent do establishments managed exclusively by men differ from those …
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"This report documents reasons, methods and results of the general revision 2014 of the IAB working-time measurement concept (AZR) for the period from 1991 to 2013. The AZR which is part of the German system of national accounts (VGR) provides long comparable time series for industry-specific...
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