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Youth unemployment after apprenticeship training and individual, occupation and training employer characteristics
Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
This paper analyses the risk of unemployment, unemployment duration and the risk of longterm unemployment immediately after apprenticeship graduation. Unemployed apprenticeship graduates constitute a large share of unemployed youth in Germany but unemployment incidence within this group is...
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Public works for Poland? Active labour market policies during transition
Puhani, Patrick A.; Steiner, Viktor - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1996
Following the predominance of macroeconomic stabilisation policies and passive income support schemes in the first phase of transition, active labour market policies (ALMPs) have now come to play a more important role in transition economies. This paper looks at the Polish experience and...
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The impact of non-profit temping agencies on individual labour market success in the West German state of Rhineland-Palatinate
Lechner, Michael; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Spengler, Hannes; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000
The paper presents an econometric evaluation of the effects of subsidised non-profit temporary employment agencies - a programme of the West German active labour market policy - on individual labour market outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on individual data from files for...
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How relevant is job mismatch for German graduates?
Berlingieri, Francesco; Erdsiek, Daniel - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
overqualification and skill mismatch is found to differ strongly between fields of study, type of university and gender. In addition, we …
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Overqualification of graduates: Assessing the role of family background
Erdsiek, Daniel - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
persistence remains unexplained. Focusing on the phenomenon of overqualification, this study examines a transmission channel that … a high socioeconomic status are found to be less likely to be overqualified. The unconditional social overqualification … overqualification gap can be attributed to group differences in observable characteristics. Differences in cognitive skills, study …
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University rankings in action? The importance of rankings and an excellence competition for university choice of high-ability students?
Horstschräer, Julia - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
This paper analyzes how high-ability students respond to different indicators of university quality when applying for a university. Are some quality dimensions of a ranking, e.g. research reputation or mentoring more important than others? I estimate a random utility model using administrative...
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The effects of short-term training measures on the individual unemployment duration in West Germany
Hujer, Reinhard; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Zeiss, Christopher - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
Short-term training measures are the most important intervention of German active labor market policy in terms of persons promoted. However, evidence on the impacts of programs is missing. This study analyzes the effects of these programs on the individual unemployment duration in West Germany....
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The importance of cognitive and social skills for the duration of unemployment
Niepel, Verena - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
This paper studies how cognitive and social skills in childhood are related to the duration of unemployment in adolescence and early adulthood. I estimate a flexible proportional hazard rate model for the probability of making a transition from unemployment to employment during an individual's...
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Return and risk of human capital contracts
Kroencke, Tim A.; Muehler, Grit; Sprietsma, Maresa - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
Human capital contracts give private investors the right to share of students' future earnings in return for a financial contribution during their studies. Although still rarely used, human capital contracts could not only help to completement limited public funding for higher education but...
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Up or out: Research incentives and career prospects of postdocs in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Leuschner, Ute - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
Academic careers in Germany have been under debate for a while. We conduct a survey among postdocs in Germany, to analyze the perceptions and attitudes of postdocs regarding their research incentives, their working conditions, and their career prospects. We conceptualize the career prospects of...
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