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Does unemployment help or hinder becoming independent? : the role of employment status for leaving the parental home
Jacob, Marita; Kleinert, Corinna - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2007
"There are two broad trends in industrialised countries motivating this paper: On the one hand, the life phase between youth and adulthood has prolonged and diversified; on the other hand, entering the labour market has become more complex and insecure. In this paper we combine two aspects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537108
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Active labour market programmes for women with a partner : challenge or replication of traditional gender roles
Kopf, Eva; Zabel, Cordula - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2014
"A major unemployment and welfare benefit reform took place in Germany in 2005. One objective of this reform was to more strongly encourage an adult worker model of the family, with an emphasis on activating the formerly inactive. Our hypothesis is, however, that assignments to activation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010939192
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Lone mothers' participation in labor market programs for means-tested benefit recipients in Germany
Zabel, Cordula - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011
"This paper examines participation in labor market programs such as job subsidies, workfare, and training programs by lone mothers receiving means-tested unemployment benefits in Germany. Since the 2005 Hartz IV labor market policy reforms, expectations that non-employed parents responsible for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592279
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Does unemployment help or hinder becoming independent? : the role of employment status for leaving the parental home
Jacob, Marita; Kleinert, Corinna - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2007
"There are two broad trends in industrialised countries motivating this paper: On the one hand, the life phase between youth and adulthood has prolonged and diversified; on the other hand, entering the labour market has become more complex and insecure. In this paper we combine two aspects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592486
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Lone mothers' participation in labor market programs for means-tested benefit recipients in Germany
Zabel, Cordula - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011
"This paper examines participation in labor market programs such as job subsidies, workfare, and training programs by lone mothers receiving means-tested unemployment benefits in Germany. Since the 2005 Hartz IV labor market policy reforms, expectations that non-employed parents responsible for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009143601
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Effects of participating in skill training and workfare on employment entries for lone mothers receiving means-tested benefits in Germany
Zabel, Cordula - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2013
"This paper investigates employment effects of further vocational training, short classroom training, as well as One-Euro-Jobs for lone mothers receiving Unemployment Benefit II (UB II) in Germany. Lone mothers receiving UB II participate in these active labor market programs at very high rates....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010655911
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Macroeconomic consequences of migration diversion : a CGE simulation for Germany and the UK
Baas, Timo; Brücker, Herbert - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
"This paper examines the macroeconomic consequences of the diversion of migration flows away from Germany towards the … Europe transitional periods for the free movement of workers. The selective application of migration restrictions during the … transitional periods has resulted in a reversal of the pre-enlargement allocation of migration flows from the new member states …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537124
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Räumliche Mobilität von türkischen Arbeitnehmern : eine Analyse mit der IAB-Beschäftigtenstichprobe 2001
Damelang, Andreas - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2007
"Die Studie untersucht das Ausmaß und die Struktur der räumlichen Mobilität von türkischen im Vergleich zu deutschen Arbeitnehmern für das Jahr 2001. Als Datenbasis wird die IAB-Beschäftigtenstichprobe (IABS) verwendet. Die Forschungshypothesen beruhen auf den für individuelle räumliche...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537129
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The returns to job mobility and inter-regional migration
Lehmer, Florian; Ludsteck, Johannes - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
returns to inter-regional migration with employer changes to separate the two effects and find that inter-regional mobility … experience level and tracing the exact paths of migration, it turns out that both the contemporaneous returns and the wage … effects. Further analyses show that these returns to migration are strongly influenced by the characteristics of both the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537132
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Occupational and regional mobility as substitutes : a new approach to understanding job changes and wage inequality
Reichelt, Malte; Abraham, Martin - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015
"Job mobility offers opportunities for workers to obtain wage increases, but returns to job changes differ considerably. We argue that parts of this inequality result from a trade-off between occupational and regional mobility. Both mobility types offer alternative strategies to improve one's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266528