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Work incentives? Ex-post effects of unemployment insurance sanctions : evidence from West Germany
Hofmann, Barbara - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
receipt between April 2000 and March 2001. By applying a matching approach that takes timing of events into account, we … identify the ex post effect of UI sanctions. As a robustness check a difference-in-differences matching estimator is applied …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537118
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Active labour-market policies in Germany : do regional labour markets benefit?
Wapler, Rüdiger; Werner, Daniel; Wolf, Katja - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2014
deals with the question whether ALMP improves the matching-process between job-seekers and vacancies and thus increases the … former programme participants. The result from our augmented matching function shows that the lock-in effect is also present … matching process. However, this effect varies largely between different types of programmes. Positive effects occur for long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099832
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Worker flows in Germany: Inspecting the time aggregation bias
Nordmeier, Daniela - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
"This paper analyzes the importance of time aggregation in the measurement of worker flows by exploiting daily information from German administrative data. Time aggregation caused by comparing monthly labor market states leads to an underestimation of total worker flows by around 10%. Contrary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010785503
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The effects of unemployment insurance on labor supply and search outcomes : regression discontinuity estimates from Germany
Schmieder, Johannes F.; Wachter, Till von; Bender, Stefan - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2010
"This paper evaluates the impact of large changes in the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) in different economic environments on labor supply, job matches, and search behavior. We show that differences in eligibility thresholds by exact age give rise to a valid regression discontinuity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550278
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Work incentives? Ex-post effects of unemployment insurance sanctions : evidence from West Germany
Hofmann, Barbara - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
receipt between April 2000 and March 2001. By applying a matching approach that takes timing of events into account, we … identify the ex post effect of UI sanctions. As a robustness check a difference-in-differences matching estimator is applied …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592330
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Worker flows in Germany: Inspecting the time aggregation bias
Nordmeier, Daniela - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
"This paper analyzes the importance of time aggregation in the measurement of worker flows by exploiting daily information from German administrative data. Time aggregation caused by comparing monthly labor market states leads to an underestimation of total worker flows by around 10%. Contrary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592338
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The effects of unemployment insurance on labor supply and search outcomes : regression discontinuity estimates from Germany
Schmieder, Johannes F.; Wachter, Till von; Bender, Stefan - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2010
"This paper evaluates the impact of large changes in the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) in different economic environments on labor supply, job matches, and search behavior. We show that differences in eligibility thresholds by exact age give rise to a valid regression discontinuity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592394
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Skill-biased labor market reforms and international competitiveness
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
"This paper proposes a multi-industry trade model with integrated capital and goods markets. Labor market imperfections in line with Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) give rise to unemployment and a channel for the government to influence markets through institutional changes. Labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010643584
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Job matching across occupational labour markets
Stops, Michael - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
"This paper refers to an analysis of matching processes in occupational labour markets in terms of classes of jobs that … on the assumption of separate occupational labour markets. This assumption suggests that job search and matching … cross-sectional dependency lags for regressors to test the hypothesis that job search and matching occur across occupational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010785502
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Alleinerziehende Mütter im Bereich des SGB II : eine Synopse empirischer Befunde aus der IAB-Forschung
Achatz, Juliane; Hirseland, Andreas; Lietzmann, Torsten; … - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2013
"From a social policy perspective, single parents - for the most part single mothers - are an important target group. Being solely in charge of both providing for the family's livelihood as well as parental care, the extent to which they can be gainfully employed is often restricted. Their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010934498