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We analyse the role that education signals play in the transition rates from unemployment to finding a job. We compare …
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We analyze the causal effect of commuting on wages, using a large sample of German job changers. Information on their home and workplace addresses in combination with road navigation software allows us to calculate exact door-to-door commuting distances with an unprecedented degree of precision....
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Germany for at least ten years and naturalised foreigners. Our results lead to the conclusion that "discrimination" is …
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Frage einher, ob Deutschland für Migranten ein attraktives Ziel darstellt - zahlen Arbeitgeber genug, um für Migranten …
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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 …
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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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We compare real wage differences between centralized and peripheral areas and highly centralized and peripheral areas using vast information of German administrative data that contains more than 2.8 Million individuals and 660,000 firms. We provide substantial empirical evidence that most of the...
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It is often stated that certain occupations in Germany, because of "Demographic Change ", are dwindling, implying a labor shortage. We investigate the 10-year wage growth of young employees entering the labor market in different occupations. Our findings suggest that regional labor market...
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We hypothesize that incomplete integration into the workplace and society implies that immigrants are less likely to be …-generation immigrants in Germany. Importantly, the analysis shows that the immigrant-native gap in union membership indeed depends on … immigrants' integration into the workplace and society. The gap is smaller for immigrants working in firms with a works council …
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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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