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Impatience among preschool children and their mothers
Kosse, Fabian; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
Using experimental data of children and their mothers, this paper explores the intergenerational relationship of impatience. The child's impatience stems from a delay of gratification experiment. Mother's impatience has been assessed by a choice task where the mothers faced trade-offs between a...
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The Targeted Negative Income Tax (TNIT) in Germany: Evidence from a Quasi Experiment
Spermann, Alexander; Strotmann, Harald - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
We report empirical evidence from the first field experiments to be conducted in Germany with program and control groups between 1999 and 2002. The evaluated program called ?Targeted Negative Income Tax (TNIT)? is a time-restricted employee subsidy for means-tested welfare recipients. We focus...
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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
combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find …
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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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Explaining the Employability Gap of Short-term and Long-term Unemployed Persons
Thomsen, Stephan L. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
This paper analyzes the determinants of employability differences between short-term and long-term unemployed persons. Knowing these differences could help to address active labor market policy programs more adequately to the needs of the job-seekers in order to increase employment integration....
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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
workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …
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Physical activity of adults: A survey of correlates, determinants, and effects
Cabane, Charlotte; Lechner, Michael - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
We survey the literature on the link of labour market related outcomes to individ-ual physical activity and sports participation. The first part of the survey is devoted to the individual participation decision and is based on papers from various disciplines. The sec-ond part summarises parts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010961629
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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 … is linked to unemployment in country specific dynamic models. For Spain, the ADL-model estimation reveals a significant … impact of sectoral reallocation on unemployment that goes beyond usual business cycle patterns. In Italy, there is weaker yet …
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Not Employed 37 Hours or Employed 41? A CGE Analysis for Germany
Conrad, Klaus; Koschel, Henrike; Löschel, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
considered an adequate policy to reduce unemployment. From the perspective of economic theory the outcome is in general ambiguous …
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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
In 2003, Germany moved from a system in which participants in training programs for the unemployed are assigned by caseworkers to an allocation system using vouchers. Based on the rich administrative data for all vouchers and on actual program participation, we provide inverse probability...
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