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Frühe Flexibilisierung? Regionale Mobilität nach der Lehrausbildung in Deutschland zwischen 1977 und 2004
Seibert, Holger - 2007
This paper examines if and to what extend regional mobility has increased after finishing vocational in-firm training between 1977 and 2004. Particular interest is given to the importance of regional mobility for occupational continuity at labor market entry. Can mobility lower the probability...
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Unemployment and occupational mobility at the beginning of employment career in Germany and the UK
Schmelzer, Paul - 2011
Gerade am Anfang der Erwerbskarriere ist Arbeitslosigkeit keine Seltenheit. In diesem Artikel argumentieren wir, dass … in Abhängigkeit von institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen Arbeitslosigkeit verschiedene Konsequenzen für die zukünftige … Position nach der Arbeitslosigkeit verbessern. Bei Auswertung der Daten werden GSEP und BHPS Datensätze benutzt und simultan …
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Structural adjustment and endogenous worker recall probabilities
Meland, Frode; Torsvik, Gaute - 2002
In this paper we investigate the incentives of unemployed workers to wait for a recall when recall probabilities are endogenously determined by the waiting decisions of others. Because of a positive externality that arises when workers seek new employment, an excessive number of workers choose...
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Training, job security and incentive wages
Katsimē, Margarita - 2003
This paper considers the optimal level of firm-specific training by taking into account the positive effect of training on the expected duration of workers current employment. In the framework of an efficiency wage model, a short expected job tenure represents a disamenity that reduces the...
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General training by firms, apprentice contracts, and public policy
Malcomson, James M.; Maw, James W.; McCormick, Barry - 2002
Workers will not pay for general on-the-job training if contracts are not enforceable. Firms may if there are mobility frictions. Private information about worker productivities, however, prevents workers who quit receiving their marginal products elsewhere. Their new employers then receive...
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The employment effects of low-wage subsidies
Huttunen, Kristiina; Pirttilä, Jukka; Uusitalo, Roope - 2010
Low-wage subsidies are often proposed as a solution to the unemployment problem among the low skilled. Yet the empirical evidence on the effects of low-wage subsidies is surprisingly scarce. This paper examines the employment effects of a Finnish payroll tax subsidy scheme, which is targeted at...
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Does federally-funded job training work? : non-experimental estimates of WIA training impacts using longitudinal data on workers and firms
Andersson, Fredrik; Holzer, Harry J.; Lane, Julia; … - 2016
In what sense are institutions a deep determinant of growth? In this paper, we address this question by examining the relationship between city growth and institutional reform in 19th century Germany, when some cities experienced deep institutional reform as a result of French rule. Employing an...
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Should local public employment services be merged with the local social benefit administrations?
Holzner, Christian; Munz, Sonja - 2011
The German Federal government has allowed some regions (Approved Local Providers) to be solely responsible for the care of long-term unemployed. The remaining regions had to form Joint Local Agencies, where the local social benefit administrations work together with the local public employment...
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Long-term effects of hiring subsidies for unemployed youths : beware of spillovers
Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
We use (donut) regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10...
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Berufliche Statusmobilität von Arbeitslosen nach beruflicher Weiterbildung: Ein empirischer Beitrag zur Evaluation der Förderung beruflicher Weiterbildung
Deeke, Axel; Baas, Meike - 2012
hinsichtlich des Qualifikationsniveaus differenziert betrachtete Stellung im Beruf vor der Arbeitslosigkeit bzw. Weiterbildung mit …-Regressionen). Erfolgsmaßstab ist im ersten Schritt die Vermeidung eines beruflichen Abstiegs bzw. von Arbeitslosigkeit. Die Analyse zeigt im …
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