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Two-Tier Labor Markets in the Great Recession : France vs. Spain

Bentolila, Samuel - 2010

This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We … contracts and the less restrictive rules regarding the use of the latter contracts in Spain. Using a calibrated search and …

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Evaluating the German "Mini-Job" reform using a natural experiment

Caliendo, Marco; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: Applied economics 42 (2010) 19/21, pp. 2475-2489

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Identifying effect heterogeneity to improve the efficiency of job creation schemes in Germany

Caliendo, Marco; Hujer, Reinhard; Thomsen, Stephen L. - In: Applied economics 40 (2008) 7/9, pp. 1101-1122

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The Threat Effect of Participation in Active Labor Market Programs on Job Search Behavior of Migrants in Germany

Bergemann, Annette - 2011

Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects may differ according to ethnic origin. We apply a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job search behavioral outcomes, such as the reservation wage or...

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The IZA Evaluation Dataset : Towards Evidence-Based Labor Policy-Making

Caliendo, Marco - 2011

The evaluation of labor market policies has become an important issue in many European countries. In recent years, many of them have opened their administrative databases for evaluation studies. The advantages of administrative data are straightforward: they are accurate, contain a large number...

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Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality

Caliendo, Marco - 2012

In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income during job search by taking up "marginal employment" up to a threshold without any deduction from their benefits. Marginal employment can be considered as a wage subsidy as it lowers labour costs for firms owing to...

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Fighting Youth Unemployment : The Effects of Active Labor Market Policies

Caliendo, Marco - 2012

A substantial number of young unemployed participate in active labor market programs (ALMP) in Germany each year. While the aims of these programs are clear – a fast re-integration into employment or enrollment in further education – a comprehensive analysis of their effectiveness has yet to...

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Personality Traits and the Evaluation of Start-Up Subsidies

Caliendo, Marco - 2016

Many countries support business start-ups to spur economic growth and reduce unemployment with different programmes. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal interpretation of the results only if all relevant...

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Produce or Speculate? Asset Bubbles, Occupational Choice and Efficiency

Cahuc, Pierre - 2009

We study the macroeconomic effects of rational asset bubbles in an overlapping-generations economy where asset trading requires specialized intermediaries and where agents freely choose between working in the production or in the financial sector. Frictions in the market for deposits create...

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The Short-Run Employment Effects of the German Minimum Wage Reform

Caliendo, Marco - 2017

We assess the short-term employment effects of the introduction of a national statutory minimum wage in Germany in 2015. For this purpose, we exploit variation in the regional treatment intensity, assuming that the stronger a minimum wage "bites" into the regional wage distribution, the stronger...

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