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The effects of dismissal protection on the hazard of remaining employed
Lücke, Christine - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
Dismissal protection has experienced many statutory changes in Germany in the past decades. This paper estimates the effects of dismissal protection on the hazard of leaving the establishment using as identification that workers employed before the legal amendment maintained their previous...
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Doing well in reforming the labour market? Recent trends in job stability and wages in Germany
Rothe, Thomas; Giannelli, Gianna C.; Jaenichen, Ursula - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
The German employment miracle with a weak decline in employment and low unemployment during the great recession seems …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958185
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Double Matching: Social Contacts in a Labour Market with On-the-Job Search
Zaharieva, Anna - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
This paper develops a labour market matching model with heterogeneous firms, on-thejob search and referrals. Social capital is endogenous, so that better connected workers bargain higher wages for a given level of productivity. This is a positive effect of referrals on reservation wages. At the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958053
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Analyzing economic policies that affect supply and demand: a structural model of productivity, labor supply and rationing
Müller, Kai-Uwe - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014
In this paper a labor supply model with demand side rationing is estimated to analyze the economic policies that directly affect incentives to work as well as labor costs. The framework is applied to evaluate the employment effects of a federal minimum wage in Germany and the impact of employer-...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163920
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The effects of job displacement on the onset and progression of diabetes
Bergemann, Annette; Grönqvist, Erik; Gudbjörnsdottir, … - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2011
Are there negative health effects from losing the job? We analyze the causal effect of job displacement on diabetes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010984925
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Job Matching on non-separated Occupational Labour Markets
Stops, Michael - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2011
This work refers to analyses of matching processes on occupational labour markets in Germany. Up to now, all studies in this field are based on the crucial assumption of separate occupational labour markets. I outlined some theoretical considerations that occupational markets are probably not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010984926
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Do plants freeze upon uncertainty shocks?
Mecikovsky, Ariel Matias; Meier, Matthias - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2014
Using quarterly worker flow data of U.S. establishments, we find that an unexpected increase in uncertainty reduces hirings and quits, while it raises layoffs. This finding suggests that the real option effect of uncertainty is less important for employment decisions. Hence plants do not freeze...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163887
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Cyclicality of Job and Worker Flows: New Data and a New Set of Stylized Facts
Wellschmied, Felix Maximilian; Bachmann, Rüdiger; … - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
We study the relationship between cyclical job and worker flows at the plant level using a new data set spanning from 1976-2006. We find that procyclical labor demand explains relatively little of procyclical worker flows. Instead, all plants in the employment growth distribution increase their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010986033
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Impact of Benefit Sanctions on Unemployment Outflow - Evidence from German Survey Data
Hohenleitner, Ingrid; Hillmann, Katja - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2012
In course of the ''Hartz IV'' reform implementation in January 2005, Germany has tightened unemployment benefit … to draw causal inference of sanction enforcment on the unemployment exit hazard. Based on a survey sample covering the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955229
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Unemployment compensation and unemployment duration - Evidence from the German Hartz IV reform
Kloß, Michael; Nagl, Wolfgang - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
In 2005, the unemployment compensation for long-term unemployed was reduced in Germany. We examine how this reform … affected the transition probability to employment. Additionally, we inspect how this effect varies over unemployment duration … raised the transition probability of short-term unemployed. The effect is even higher, the longer the unemployment duration …
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