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Regional structural change and the effects of job loss
Arntz, Melanie; Ivanov, Boris; Pohlan, Laura - 2022
administrativen Daten aus Deutschland und einem mit Matching kombinierten Differenz-von-Differenzen-Ansatz, dass die individuellen …
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The quality-weighted matching function : did the German labour market reforms trade off efficiency against job quality?
Gartner, Hermann; Rothe, Thomas; Weber, Enzo - 2019
We evaluate the quantity-quality trade-off on the labor market by estimating an augmented matching function weighting … good half of the positive effect of reforms on the matching efficiency remains. …Wir analysieren den Zielkonflikt zwischen Umfang und Qualität der Beschäftigung, indem wir eine erweiterte Matching …
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Work incentives?: ex post effects of unemployment insurance sanctions ; evidence from West Germany
Hofmann, Barbara - 2008
receipt between April 2000 and March 2001. By applying a matching approach that takes timing of events into account, we … identify the ex post effect of UI sanctions. As a robustness check a difference-in-differences matching estimator is applied …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264524
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Work incentives? : ex-post effects of unemployment insurance sanctions ; evidence from West Germany
Hofmann, Barbara - 2008
Westdeutschland für Individuen untersucht, welche zwischen April 2000 und März 2001 arbeitslos wurden. Unter Anwendung eines Matching …. -- Unemployment insurance sanctions ; dynamic matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003874188
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'Take it or go to court': The impact of sec. 1a of the German protection against dismissal act on severance payments
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2010
In 2004, a section was added to the German Protection against Dismissal Act, establishing a new procedure to dismiss an employee, given a predetermined severance payment. Most legal scholars presume the change to be without impact, while a minority of experts claims it to be either beneficial or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270459
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The effectiveness of targeted wage subsidies for hard-to-place workers
Jaenichen, Ursula; Stephan, Gesine - 2007
paper uses propensity score matching to investigate their effect on subsidised hard-to-place workers. In a first scenario … prospects of participants. -- Targeted wage subsidies ; evaluation of labour market programmes ; propensity score matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003873105
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The effects of active labor market programs in Germany : an investigation using different definitions of non-treatment
Stephan, Gesine - 2008
Geförderten, die im März 2003 eine solche Maßnahme aufnahmen. Dies geschieht mit Hilfe statistischer Matching-Methoden. Der Fokus … labor market policies ; definition of non-treatment ; comparison group concepts ; propensity score matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003873948
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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016
Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante...
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Severance pay and the shadow of the law : evidence for West Germany
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2005
Due to the complexity of employment protection legislation (EPL) in Germany, there is notable uncertainty about the outcomes of dismissal conflicts. In this study we focus on severance pay and inquire whether its incidence and level varies in a systematic manner with the legal rules as defined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261385
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Evidence on job search models from a survey of unemployed workers in Germany
Della Vigna, Stefano; Heining, Jörg; Schmieder, Johannes; … - 2020
The job finding rate of Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients declines in the initial months of unemployment and then exhibits a spike at the benefit exhaustion point. A range of theoretical explanations have been proposed, but those are hard to disentangle using data on job finding alone. To...
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