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Does higher education help immigrants find a job? : a survival analysis
Brück-Klingberg, Andrea; Burkert, Carola; Garloff, Alfred - 2011
We analyse the role that education signals play in the transition rates from unemployment to finding a job. We compare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008907139
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Active labour-market policies in Germany : do regional labour markets benefit?
Wapler, Rüdiger; Werner, Daniel; Wolf, Katja - 2014
total number of outflows from unemployment into employment at the regional level. To answer this question, we use data for …-seekers subject to unemployment insurance. As microeconometric evaluation studies show, the search effectiveness of programme …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010460947
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Why is there a gender earnings gap in self-employment? : a decomposition analysis with German data
Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-25
Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, about one quarter to one third of the difference in monthly self-employment earnings can be...
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Do active labour market policies for welfare recipients in Germany raise their regional outflow into work? : a matching function approach
Wapler, Rüdiger; Wolf, Katja; Wolff, Joachim - 2018
and vacancies. An essential part of many reforms of the unemployment benefit system such as in Germany intended to … effects on the matching efficiency of a number of ALMPs, but the effects partly differ between high and low unemployment …
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Do startups provide employment opportunities for disadvantaged workers?
Fackler, Daniel; Fuchs, Michaela; Hölscher, Lisa; … - 2018
instable employment biographies, come from unemployment or outside the labor force, or were affected by a plant closure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011868031
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Information asymmetry, education signals and the case of ethnic and native Germans
Hornig, Stephan O.; Rottmann, Horst; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2009
Das Papier analysiert die Auswirkungen von Signalen über das erreichte Bildungsniveau von (Spät-)Aussiedlern und 'übrigen Deutschen'. Die Analyse beruht auf der Sorting-Theorie mit produktivitätserhöhenden Effekten der Bildung. Aus dieser theoretischen Analyse folgen vier Hypothesen,...
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Can working conditions explain the return-to-entrepreneurship puzzle?
Lechmann, Daniel S. J. - In: Journal for labour market research 48 (2015) 4, pp. 271-286
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Do newly founded firms pay lower wages? : First evidence from Germany
Brixy, Udo (contributor); Kohaut, Susanne (contributor);  … - 2004
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The hiring and employment of older workers in Germany : a comparative perspective
Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe - In: Journal for labour market research 49 (2016) 4, pp. 349-366
characterized by far less mobility and opportunity. While we recognize the potential explanations of reduced productivity and age … discrimination, we review evidence pointing to the importance of life-cycle contracts (Hutchens, J Lab Econ, 4, 439–457, 1986; Lazear …
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The hiring and employment of older workers in Germany : a comparative perspective
Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe - In: Journal for labour market research 49 (2016) 4, pp. 349-366
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011640113