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Gernandt, Johannes - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

Using data from the German Socio Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1984 to 2007, this paper analyses the amount, the development and the explanations of wage mobility, as well as volatility in West Germany, measured by ranks in the wage distribution. Individual wage mobility decreased between...

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All Quiet on the Wage Front?

Puhani, Patrick A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1997

We analyse the Polish wage and unemployment structure between 1992 and 1995 on the basis of the Polish Labour Force Survey. It is shown that within this period wage inequality has stabilised. Surprisingly, wage inequality is lower in the private than in the public sector. Our test results show...

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Taxation and unemployment: an applied general equilibrium approach for Germany

Boeters, Stefan; Böhringer, Christoph; Feil, Michael - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

This paper presents an applied general equilibrium model for Germany. The model integrates specific labour market institutions in an otherwise standard general equilibrium framework. There are sectoral wage negotiations for two skill types of workers between firms and trade unions. The...

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Sources of German unemployment: evidence from a structural VAR model

Linzert, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

, a cointegration analysis of productivity, prices, real wages, employment, and the unemployment rate reveals two long run …

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Fixed-term Contracts as Sorting Mechanisms: Evidence From Job Durations in West Germany

Boockmann, Bernhard; Hagen, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

the employment spell, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) from 1985 to 2002. Using a statistical … matching approach, we find that job exit rates are initially much higher if the employment spell began with an FTC. However …, exit rates fall below those of comparable spells spent entirely in permanent employment after a few years time. This …

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What active labour market programmes work for immigrants in Europe? A meta-analysis of the evaluation literature

Butschek, Sebastian; Walter, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

markets and investigates the employment effects of Active Labour Market Pro-grammes (ALMPs) on this subgroup. Using a meta … combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find …

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Employment and earnings effects of awarding training vouchers in Germany

Doerr, Annabelle; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kruppe, Thomas; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

participation, we provide inverse probability weighting and ordinary least squares estimates of the employment and earnings effects … market success. On average, there are only small positive employment effects and no gains in earnings even four years after …

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Youth unemployment in the OECD: The role of institutions

Sachs, Andreas; Smolny, Werner - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

high effect of employment protection for regular jobs on youth unemployment. In addition, the combined effects of powerful …

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Benchmarking regions: Estimating the counterfactual distribution of labor market outcomes

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Furdas, Marina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

This paper develops and implements a new benchmarking approach for labor market regions. Based on panel data for regions, we use nonparametric matching techniques to account for observed labor market characteristics and for spatial proximity. As the benchmark, we estimate the counterfactual...

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The heterogeneous effects of training incidence and duration on labor market transitions

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; Paul, Marie - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

This paper estimates the impact of training incidence and duration on employment transitions accounting for the … endogeneity of program participation and duration. We specify a very flexible bivariate random effects probit model for employment … training on the employment probability of the treated, lying between 12 and 21 percentage points ten quarters after program …

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