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Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining? Evidence from the Employers' Side

Brenzel, Hanna; Gartner, Hermann; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

bargaining in the matching process from the employer's side. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German …

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Wage Rigidities in Western Germany? Microeconometric Evidence from the 1990s

Puhani, Patrick A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …

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The Dynamics of Social Assistance Benefit Receipt in Germany: State Dependence Before and After the 'Hartz Reforms'

Königs, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In this article, I study state dependence in social assistance receipt in Germany using annual survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1995-2011. There is considerable observed state dependence, with an average persistence rate in benefits of 68% comparing to an...

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Central School Exit Exams and Labor-Market Outcomes

Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Many countries use centralized exit exams as a governance devise of the school system. While abundant evidence suggests positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on university-bound students shows no effects on subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market...

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Don't Worry, Be Happy? Happiness and Reemployment

Krause, Annabelle - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

wages are considered desirable outcomes for the unemployed individual and society, the shape of the effect suggests an …

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Unemployment Benefits and Unemployment Rates of Low-Skilled and Elder Workers in West Germany: A Search Equilibrium Approach

Launov, Andrey; Wolff, Joachim; Klasen, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

In this paper we investigate whether the extension of the entitlement to unemployment benefits in the mid 80s can explain the increase in the unemployment rates of unskilled and elder workers in western Germany. To answer this question we estimate a version of the Burdett-Mortensen search...

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Die Wirkung der Hartz-Reform im Bereich der beruflichen Weiterbildung

Schneider, Hilmar; Uhlendorff, Arne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

der Bundesagentur für Arbeit zurück und schätzen ausgehend von einem konditionalen Propensity-Score-Matching die …

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Employment Stability of Entrants in Newly Founded Firms: A Matching Approach Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany

Schnabel, Claus; Kohaut, Susanne; Brixy, Udo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

we use a matching approach to compare a group of employees joining new firms in 1995/96 with a control group entering …

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Unwilling or Unable? Spatial, Institutional and Socio-Economic Restrictions on Females' Labor Market Access

van Ham, Maarten; Büchel, Felix - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We analyze the effects of regional structures on both females’ willingness to work and the probability of being employed for those willing to work. Special permission was granted to link regional data to individual respondents in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Results of a bivariate...

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Reservation Wages of First and Second Generation Migrants

Constant, Amelie F.; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper analyzes the reservation wages of first and second generation migrants. Based on recently collected and rich … reservation wages increase from first to second generation migrants. Two extensions of the basic job search model, namely an … reservation wages may arise. In as far as language skills or self-evaluated returns to characteristics reflect a person's frames …

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