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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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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 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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A number of studies have reported that union decline is associated with rising overall wage inequality, not least in Germany where the phenomenon has been linked to economic resurgence. The present paper takes an unconventional approach to this potential source of rising inequality by examining...
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instable employment biographies, come from unemployment or outside the labor force, or were affected by a plant closure …
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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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While education and labor force participation of women have been increased, there is still a substantial gender gap in labor market opportunities. This gives rise to the question of what factors lead employers to promote work-family balance and gender equality. We address this question by...
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