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The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that new immigrant workers earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries,...
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There is an ongoing discussion that centres on the German labour market reforms (2003- 2005) and the role of these reforms in boosting the German economy. Considering that one of the main objectives of the reforms was to improve the matching process on the labour market, I use rich,...
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In this paper we study the effect of small labor market entry cohorts on (un)employment in Western Germany. From a … theoretical point of view, decreasing cohort sizes may on the one hand reduce unemployment due to "inverse cohort crowding" or on … the other hand increase unemployment if companies reduce jobs disproportionately. Consequently, the actual effect of …
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this episode assume that a worker leaving unemployment moves into full employment. We ask where the unemployed actually … went. Using and merging two large micro data sets, we account for the decrease of unemployment by computing inflows and … outflows between unemployment and 16 other labour market states. Direct flows between unemployment and full employment …
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The strong and sustained labour market upswing in Germany is widely recognized. In a developing literature, various relevant studies highlight different specific reasons. The underlying study, instead, simultaneously considers a broad set of factors in a unified methodological framework and...
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This paper analyses how differences in the degree of occupational routine-intensity affect the costs of job loss. We use worker-level data on mass layoffs in Germany between 1980 and 2010 and provide causal evidence that workers who used to be employed in more routine-intensive occupa-tions...
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kausalen Effekt von globalen Wertschöpfungsketten (GVC) auf den deutschen Arbeitsmarkt während der COVID-19-Krise. Die Analyse …
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This study investigates the incidence of overeducation among workers in the EU and its underlying factors based on the most recent wave of the European Labor Force Survey (EU-LFS 2013). Its main purpose is to shed light on the interplay of so far neglected explanatory factors such as household...
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