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participate in adult education programs. We analyze the effect of this on the duration to work and on the wage rate, by applying …
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potential participants. Our econometric analysis uses unusually informative data originating from administrative unemployment …
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workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …
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This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities and targeting the unemployed under the criteria of "approximate welfare efficiency" (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies...
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unemployment duration. Using duration models and a very rich data set, we can identify heterogenous and time-dependent causal … stronger than on unemployment duration. In particular, the program shifts the incidence of recurrence, one year after … employment, from 33 to 26%. This illustrates that labor market policies evaluations that consider unemployment duration alone can …
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constant job and employment duration models show that changes in the durations of the first job and employment – measured as … has not improved after the reforms. The reduction in the duration of the first job has not been counterbalanced by an …
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unemployment entries in 2002 and analyze the short- and long-term impacts for a variety of different programs. With informative …
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This study analyzes the treatment effects of public training programs for the unemployed in Germany. Based on propensity score matching methods we extend the picture that has been sketched in previous studies by estimating treatment effects of medium-term programs for different sub-groups with...
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Mit der Hartz-Reform wurden auch im Bereich der beruflichen Weiterbildung grundlegende Neuerungen eingeführt. Dazu gehören vor allem die Einführung von Bildungsgutscheinen als neuem Allokationsinstrument, das den potentiellen Teilnehmern Wahlfreiheit bei der Auswahl der Bildungsanbieter...
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both unemployment and employment duration. Our analysis uses a rich administrative longitudinal data set for Germany where … unemployment. Long-term training schemes increase the average duration of employment spells more strongly than short-term training …. However, they increase the expected unemployment duration if they are started early during unemployment. This negative short …
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