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Employment and wage effects of social security financing : an empirical analysis of the West German experience and some policy simulations
Steiner, Viktor - 1996
whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the incidence of social security contributions and taxes also hold up within … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive shortrun employment effect of a revenue … rates, but in the longerterm only modest effects remain due to higher wages. …
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Leaving unemployment for self-employment : a discrete duration analysis of determinants and stability of self-employment among former unemployed
Reize, Frank - 2000
The paper investigates the determinants and the success of self-employment among former unemployed. Self-employment has become an important re-employment opportunity during the last decade due to increasing subsidies. The econometric analysis is carried out using discrete hazard rate models on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428330
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Jobs. Jobs? Jobs! : Orientierungshilfen für den Weg zu mehr Beschäftigung
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 2000
Die Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit genießt oberste wirtschaftspolitische Priorität - dieser Feststellung wird kaum jemand widersprechen wollen. Eher scheiden sich die Geister an der Frage nach dem "wirklichen" quantitativen Ausmaß der Unterbeschäftigung, ihren Ursachen und welche...
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Employment effects of publicly financed training programs : the East German experience
Kraus, Florian - 1997
We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428138
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Beware of the employer : financial incentives for employees may fail to prolong old age employment
Lorenz, Svenja; Pfister, Mona; Zwick, Thomas - 2020
normal retirement age in Germany did not prolong employment of older men. The reason for this surprising result is that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167052
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Working longer, working stronger? : the forward-looking effects of increasing the retirement age on (un)employment behaviour
Gohl, Niklas - 2023
Leveraging two cohort-specific pension reforms, this paper estimates the forwardlooking effects of an exogenous increase in the working horizon on (un)employment behaviour for individuals with a long remaining statutory working life. Using differencein-differences and regression discontinuity...
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Poland on the dole : unemployment benefits, training, and long-term unemployment during transition
Puhani, Patrick A. - 1996
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Poland on the dole : unemployment benefits, training, and long-term unemployment during transition
Puhani, Patrick A. - 1996
We analyse the duration of unemployment spells in Poland using data from the Polish Labour Force Survey of August 1994. The effects on the duration of unemployment of important socio-economic and demographic characteristics are explored besides the impacts of the unemployment benefit system and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011620003
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Was working nation working?
Junankar, Pramod N.; Kapuscinski, Cezary A. - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000970547
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Labour market programs and labour market outcomes
Stromback, Thorsten; Dockery, Alfred Michael; Ying, Wiwi - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000983847