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Sensitivity of matching-based program evaluations to the availability of control variables
Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - 2011
Based on new, exceptionally informative and large German linked employer-employee administrative data, we investigate the question whether the omission of important control variables in matching estimation leads to biased impact estimates of typical active labour market programs for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011187
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Skill premiums and the supply of young workers in Germany
Glitz, Albrecht; Wissmann, Daniel - 2017
In this paper, we study the development and underlying drivers of skill premiums in Germany between 1980 and 2008. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688036
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Exporting and labor demand : micro-level evidence from Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Sieglich, Sebastian - 2014
It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250050
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The Aims of Lifelong Learning : Age-Related Effects of Training on Wages and Job Security
Lang, Julia - 2012
This study analyses the effects of training participation on wages and perceived job security for employees of different ages. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, results indicate that only younger workers benefit from training by an increase in wages, whereas older employees’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014165947
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Optimal use of labor market policies : the role of job search assistance
Wunsch, Conny - 2009
This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is based on a framework, that allows for endogenous choice of benefit types and levels, wage taxes or subsidies, and activation measures such as monitoring and job search assistance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923505
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Public employment agency reform, matching efficiency, and German unemployment
Merkl, Christian; Sauerbier, Timo - 2023
restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment … Employment Agency did not contribute to the decline in unemployment in Germany. By contrast, improved activation of unemployed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247120
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Complementarity of innovation policies in the Brazilian industry : an econometric study
Strube, Eduardo; Resende, Marcelo - 2009
The paper aims at assessing discrete complementarities in innovation policies in the context of the Brazilian industry in 2003. The paper considers the approach advanced by Mohnen and and Röller [European Economic Review, 2005] that focuses on supermodularity and submodularity tests for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003883864
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Equality of Opportunity : East vs. West Germany
Peichl, Andreas - 2015
integration. however, little is known about the development of equality of opportunity (EOp) in East and West Germany after 1990 … in East and West Germany. Our results suggest that equal opportunities in Germany have grown since reunification …. Interestingly, EOp is larger in East than in West Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010910
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Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution
Siedler, Thomas - 2012
This paper analyzes the extent to which intergenerational upward and downward mobility in earnings are related to individuals' preferences for redistribution. A novel survey question from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study — whether the taxes paid by unskilled workers are too high, adequate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096828
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Like Father, Like Son? – A Comparison of Absolute and Relative Intergenerational Labour Income Mobility in Germany and the US
Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2018
analysing the trends in absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility for Germany and the US. High quality … panel data is used for this purpose; the SOEP for Germany and the PSID for the US. In Germany, 67 per cent of sons born … 48 per cent in the 1971-75 birth cohort, while it almost did not change in Germany. Overall, absolute but also relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909287