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The Geographical Mobility of Unemployed Workers: Evidence from West Germany
Arntz, Melanie - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
Using a competing-risk framework of exiting unemployment to jobs in a local or a distant labor market area, this paper investigates whether unemployed individuals in West Germany choose search strategies that favor migrating out of declining regions. Moreover, the paper investigates how such...
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Unequal pay or unequal employment? What drives the skill-composition of labor flows in Germany?
Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, Florian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
This paper examines the determinants of gross labour flows in a context where modeling the migration decision as a wage-maximizing process may be inadequate due to regional wage rigidities that result from central wage bargaining. In such a context, the framework that has been developed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646606
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Occupational and locational substitution: measuring the effect of occupational and regional mobility
Aldashev, Alisher - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
The paper analyzes effects of occupational and regional mobility on the matching rate using the monthly panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097969
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What attracts human capital? Understanding the skill composition of interregional job matches in Germany
Arntz, Melanie - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
of internal job matching flows in Germany. Estimates from a nested logit model of destination choice suggest that spatial … job matching patterns by high-skilled individuals are mainly driven by interregional income differentials, while … unemployment. Simulating job matching patterns in a scenario of economic convergence between eastern and western Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098225
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Immigration and Heterogeneous Labor in Western Germany: A Labor Market Classification Based on Nonparametric Estimation
Puhani, Patrick A.; Frölich, Markus - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002
This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097796
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Unemployment duration in Germany: individual and regional determinants of local job finding, migration and subsidized employment
Arntz, Melanie; Wilke, Ralf A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
Recent labor market reforms in Germany aim, among other things, at reducing unemployment by restricting passive unemployment measures, emphasizing local labor market policies and re-structuring public employment services. This paper uses extensive individual administrative and regional aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097864
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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
matching methods suggest that the programme generated a statistically significant additional reintegration success of about 13 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097555
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Die gemeinnützige Arbeitnehmerüberlassung in Rheinland-Pfalz: Eine ökonometrische Analyse des Wiedereingliederungserfolgs
Almus, Matthias; Egeln, Jürgen; Lechner, Michael; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1998
Arbeitsmarktgruppen noch vergleichsweise wenig verbreitete Matching- Methode in Verbindung mit der hohen Datenqualität, die durch die …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097667
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Employment Effects of the Provision of Specific Professional Skills and Techniques in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Speckesser, Stefan - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
linear matching based on the estimated propensity score to estimate the average treatment effect on the treated of SPST …
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Evaluation der Eingliederungseffekte von Arbeitsbeschaffungsmaßnahmen in reguläre Beschäftigung für Teilnehmer in Deutschland
Caliendo, Marco; Hujer, Reinhard; Thomsen, Stephan L. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
bis Dezember 2002. Unter Verwendung von Matching- Methoden auf dem Ansatz potenzieller Ergebnisse werden die Effekte von …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097951