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Skill Wage Premia, Employment, and Cohort Effects : Are Workers in Germany All of the Same Type?

Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2008

This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment … groups and between those of different age, taking account of the endogeneity of wages and employment. Compared to estimates …

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Employment and Earnings Effects of Awarding Training Vouchers in Germany

Doerr, Annabelle - 2014

In 2003, Germany moved from a system in which participants in training programs for the unemployed are assigned by …

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New Insights on Unemployment Duration and Post Unemployment Earnings in Germany : Censored Box-Cox Quantile Regression at Work

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2021

periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post-unemployment earnings in West Germany. For … unemployment wages. A high wage replacement rate in the low wage sector seems to considerably elongate the duration of unemployment … and it is associated with higher post unemployment wages …

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Three Family Policies to Reconcile Fertility and Labor Supply

Fenge, Robert - 2014

In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children, the secondary earner's labor supply and welfare....

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Subsidies for Wages and Infrastructure : How to Restrain Undesired Immigration

Meier, Volker - 2006

This paper investigates regional or international transfers as a means to prevent immigration into unemployment. We analyze a two-country model with free migration in which the rich country is characterized by minimum wage unemployment. Matching grants for investment in infrastructure are...

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The Heterogeneous Effects of Training Incidence and Duration on Labor Market Transitions

Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2010

start. The effects are higher for women than for men and higher in West Germany than in East Germany. Further, we find that …

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Up or Out : Research Incentives and Career Prospects of Postdocs in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2012

Academic careers in Germany have been under debate for a while. We conduct a survey among postdocs in Germany, to …

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The Ifo Investment Database

Strobel, Thomas - 2013

In this paper we present the Ifo Investment Database, which provides annual investment data for 12 investment assets in 50 German industries from 1991 onward. The data is consistent with national accounts statistics provided by the German Federal Statistical Office and is based on investments in...

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Assessing the Macroeconomic Forecasting Performance of Boosting - Evidence for the United States, the Euro Area, and Germany

Buchen, Teresa - 2013

to the fit. Using data for the United States, the euro area and Germany, we assess the performance of boosting when …

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Decomposition of Demographic Effects on the German Pension System

Fenge, Robert - 2018

The paper analyses the impact of demographic developments on the German pension system until the year 2060. The projections are simulated for a range of assumptions on the latest demographic trends and on the labour market and comprise the latest pension legislation. As a central innovation we...

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