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How weather-proof is the construction sector? : empirical evidence from Germany

Arntz, Melanie (contributor); Wilke, Ralf A. (contributor) - 2008

, Germany maintains an extensive bad weather allowance system. Since the mid 1990s, these regulations have been subject to …

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Crowding out informal care? : evidence from a social experiment in Germany

Arntz, Melanie (contributor); … - 2008

This paper evaluates the effects of a professionally assisted consumer-directed program (Personal Budgets) compared to the standard home care programs of the German long-term care insurance. The evaluation makes use of a long-run social experiment at seven different sites with a random...

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Reforming home care provision in Germany : evidence from a social experiment

Arntz, Melanie (contributor); … - 2008

In a long-run social experiment, personal budgets have been tested as an alternative to the home care programs of the German long-term care insurance (LTCI). Due to extending the coverage beyond LTCI approved services and agencies, personal budgets may improve care outcomes compared to the...

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The KfW/ZEW start-up panel : design and research potential

Fryges, Helmut; Gottschalk, Sandra; Kohn, Karsten - 2009

So far, there has been no data set which observes firm formations in Germany not only on a cross-sectional basis using … Bankengruppe and Creditreform set up a panel study of newly founded firms in Germany: the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel. In each of the … ; panel data ; Germany …

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Unemployment duration in Germany : individual and regional determinants of local job finding, migration and subsidized employment

Arntz, Melanie (contributor); Wilke, Ralf A. (contributor) - 2006

Recent labor market reforms in Germany aim, among other things, at reducing unemployment by restricting passive …

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Gender differences in business success of German start-up firms

Gottschalk, Sandra; Niefert, Michaela - 2011

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Bounds analysis of competing risks : a nonparametric evaluation of the effect of unemployment benefits on imigration in Germany

Arntz, Melanie (contributor); Lo, Simon M. S. (contributor); … - 2007

migration of unemployed workers in Germany. Our findings weakly indicate that reducing the entitlement length for unemployment …

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The German social long-term care insurance - structure and reform options

Arntz, Melanie (contributor) - 2006

Regarding social needs in Germany long-term care is an important issue due to an ageing population. Shrinking social … introduced in Germany which is similar in nature to the other social insurances, such as the health care or pension insurance …

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Analysing welfare reform in a microsimulation-AGE model : the value of disaggregation

Arntz, Melanie (contributor) - 2006

We present a combined, consistent microsimulation-AGE model that uses the labour market model PACE-L, data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and a discrete choice labour supply estimation. The model is used to analyse a reform that cuts the social assistance minimum income and lowers the...

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Unequal pay or unequal employment? : What drives the skill-composition of labor flows in Germany?

Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, Florian - 2011

This paper examines the determinants of gross labour flows in a context where modeling the migration decision as a wage-maximizing process may be inadequate due to regional wage rigidities that result from central wage bargaining. In such a context, the framework that has been developed by...

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