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This paper evaluates the effects of Public Sponsored Training in East Germany in the context of reiterated treatments. Selection bias based on observed characteristics is corrected for by applying kernel matching based on the propensity score. We control for further selection and the presence of...
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We provide a set of comparable estimates for the rates of inflow to and outflow from unemployment using publicly … available data for fourteen OECD economies. We then devise a method to decompose changes in unemployment into contributions … accounted for by changes in inflow and outflow rates for cases where unemployment deviates from its flow steady state, as it …
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This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based … on a discrete time competing risks hazard rate model applied to comparable microdata sets. The unemployment risk is … broken down into the risk of entering unemployment and the risk, once unemployed, of not getting reemployed. The paper …
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On the basis of a theoretical model, we argue that higher aggregate unemployment affects individual returns to … education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education … level in a standard Mincer equation. Our results show that an increase in regional unemployment by 1% decreases the returns …
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pertaining to regional unemployment in Germany. The available data set comprises information about the share of unemployed …
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Is working more than monetary income? This paper attempts to give an answer to this question on the basis of the German Socio-economic Panel data set. By comparing the satisfaction with life between workers and non-workers with the same household income, the monetary value of participating in...
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This report provides an overview of the policies and procedures for addressing terrorist and violent extremist content (TVEC) across the global top 50 online content sharing services, with a focus on transparency. It finds that only five of the 50 services issue transparency reports specifically...
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This paper examines the empirical analysis of treatment effects on duration outcomes from data that contain instrumental variation. We focus on social experiments in which an intention to treat is randomized and compliance may be imperfect. We distinguish between cases where the treatment starts...
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We introduce and apply a method for estimating workers' marginal willingness to pay for job attributes employing data on job search activity. Worker's willingness to pay for the remaining duration of the employment contract is derived. We provide evidence that workers attach substantial value to...
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noncyclical. Most of this composition effect works through the part-time employment margin. Remarkably, the unemployment margin …
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