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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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Noncognitive skills, school achievements and educational dropout

Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

We analyse the determinants of dropout from secondary and vocational education in Germany using data from the Socio-Economic Panel from 2000 to 2007. In addition to the role of classical variables like family background and school achievements, we examine the effect of noncognitive skills. Both,...

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Do Fixed-Term Contracts Increase the Long-Term Employment Opportunities of the Unemployed?

Hagen, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

The paper investigates whether (unsubsidised) fixed-term contracts (FTCs) are a means of integration for the unemployed in the West German labour market. This is done by analysing whether entering into an FTC improves the employment opportunities of an unemployed person in terms of the...

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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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Self-Productivity in Early Childhood

Coneus, Katja; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

Self-productivity is a crucial feature in the process of skill formation. It means that skills and health acquired at one stage in the life cycle enhance skills and health formation at later stages. This paper presents an empirical investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in...

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Self-Productivity in Early Childhood

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Coneus, Katja - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

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The Effect of Early Noncognitive Skills on Social Outcomes in Adolescence

Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

This paper investigates the impact of early noncognitive skills on social outcomes in adolescence. The child's attention span, approach, prevailing mood and distractibility in early childhood may be crucial predictors for school achievements, health risk behavior, delinquency and autonomy as...

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Unemployment and labor reallocation in Europe

Hogrefe, Jan; Sachs, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

We ask whether sectoral shocks and the subsequent labor reallocation are responsible for unemployment within selected European economies. Our measure of sectoral labor reallocation is adjusted for aggregate influences and the remaining variation is linked to unemployment in country specific...

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Human capital investment strategies in Europe

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

The paper analyses alternative investment policies and their consequences for the evolution of human capital in Europe … diversity and the other a unified Europe. Our results indicate that investments need to be directed more generally to people of … younger ages in Europe. If equality is important enough additional investment should specifically be directed to disadvantaged …

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