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Regional structural change and the effects of job loss
Arntz, Melanie; Ivanov, Boris; Pohlan, Laura - 2022
administrativen Daten aus Deutschland und einem mit Matching kombinierten Differenz-von-Differenzen-Ansatz, dass die individuellen …
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Regional structural change and the effects of job loss
Arntz, Melanie; Ivanov, Boris; Pohlan, Laura - 2022
Routine-intensive occupations have been declining in many countries, but how does this affect individual workers’ careers if this decline is particularly severe in their local labor market? This paper uses administrative data from Germany and a matched difference-in-differences approach to...
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Early retirement of employees in demanding jobs : evidence from a German pension reform
Geyer, Johannes; Lorenz, Svenja; Zwick, Thomas; Bruns, Mona - 2021
Early retirement options are usually targeted at employees at risk of not reaching their regular retirement age in employment. An important at‐risk group comprises employees who have worked in demanding jobs for many years. This group may be particularly negatively affected by the abolition of...
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The quality-weighted matching function : did the German labour market reforms trade off efficiency against job quality?
Gartner, Hermann; Rothe, Thomas; Weber, Enzo - 2019
We evaluate the quantity-quality trade-off on the labor market by estimating an augmented matching function weighting … good half of the positive effect of reforms on the matching efficiency remains. …Wir analysieren den Zielkonflikt zwischen Umfang und Qualität der Beschäftigung, indem wir eine erweiterte Matching …
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Work incentives? : ex-post effects of unemployment insurance sanctions ; evidence from West Germany
Hofmann, Barbara - 2008
Westdeutschland für Individuen untersucht, welche zwischen April 2000 und März 2001 arbeitslos wurden. Unter Anwendung eines Matching …. -- Unemployment insurance sanctions ; dynamic matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003874188
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Long-term participation tax rates
Bartels, Charlotte - 2012
Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to reduce work incentives for lower income classes and to increase durations of unemployment. Standard studies measure work incentives based on annual income concepts. This paper analyzes how work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009630295
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The effectiveness of targeted wage subsidies for hard-to-place workers
Jaenichen, Ursula; Stephan, Gesine - 2007
paper uses propensity score matching to investigate their effect on subsidised hard-to-place workers. In a first scenario … prospects of participants. -- Targeted wage subsidies ; evaluation of labour market programmes ; propensity score matching …
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The effects of active labor market programs in Germany : an investigation using different definitions of non-treatment
Stephan, Gesine - 2008
Geförderten, die im März 2003 eine solche Maßnahme aufnahmen. Dies geschieht mit Hilfe statistischer Matching-Methoden. Der Fokus … labor market policies ; definition of non-treatment ; comparison group concepts ; propensity score matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003873948
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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016
Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante...
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Income in Jeopardy : how losing employment affects the willingness to take risks/ Clemens Hetschko; Malte Preuss
Hetschko, Clemens; Preuss, Malte - 2015
Using German panel data, we assess the causal effect of job loss, and thus of an extensive income shock, on risk attitude. In line with predictions of expected utility reasoning about absolute risk aversion, losing oneś job reduces the willingness to take risks. This effect strengthens in...
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