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Poland on the dole : unemployment benefits, training, and long-term unemployment during transition

Puhani, Patrick A. - 1996

besides the impacts of the unemployment benefit system and training schemes. Finally, we investigate whether prior … long-term unemployment. Training programmes organised by labour offices should not be regarded as a panacea for the …

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Do job creation schemes improve the social integration and well-being of the long-term unemployed?

Ivanov, Boris; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Pohlan, Laura - 2019

In this paper we analyze the effects of a German job creation scheme (JCS) on the social integration and well-being of long-term unemployed individuals. Using linked survey and administrative data for participants and a group of matched non-participants, we find significant positive effects of...

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Modelling heaping effects in unemployment duration models : with an application to retrospective event data in the German socio-economic panel

Kraus, Florian; Steiner, Viktor - 1995

Unemployment duration data derived from retrospective surveys often show an abnormal concentration of responses at certain durations. This common kind of measurement error is known as "heaping" in the statistical literature. Although heaping effects may lead to severe biases in estimated...

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The effect of unemployment insurance benefits on (self-)employment : two sides of the same coin?

Camarero Garcia, Sebastian; Hansch, Michelle - 2021

Although a meaningful percentage of firms are created out of unemployment and current active labor market policies in Europe often subsidize unemployed individuals to start their own businesses, little is known about the role of unemployment insurance (UI) generosity for selfemployment. By using...

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Public works for Poland? : active labour market policies during transition

Puhani, Patrick A.; Steiner, Viktor - 1996

Following the predominance of macroeconomic stabilisation policies and passive income support schemes in the first phase of transition, active labour market policies (ALMPs) have now come to play a more important role in transition economies. This paper looks at the Polish experience and...

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The effect of unemployment insurance benefits on (self-)employment : two sides of the same coin?

Camarero Garcia, Sebastian; Hansch, Michelle - 2020

Although a relevant share of firms is created out of unemployment and current active labor market policies in Europe often subsidize unemployed individuals to start their own businesses, little is known about the role of unemployment insurance (UI) generosity for self-employment. By using...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314595

The pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns to voucher-financed training

Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2015

This paper analyzes the returns to training that was co-financed by the German voucher program Bildungsprämie. The … estimation strategy compares outcomes of participants in voucher training with voucher recipients who intended to participate in … training, but did not do so because of a random event like course cancellation by the provider of training. We find no impact …

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Modeling the Duration of Patent Examination at theEuropean Patent Office

Harhoff, Dietmar; Wagner, Stefan - Universität <München> / Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaft - 2006

We analyze the duration of the patent examination process at the EuropeanPatent Office (EPO). Our data contain information related to the patent’seconomic and technical relevance, EPO capacity and workload as well as novelcitation measures which are derived from the EPO’s search reports. In...

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How do taxes affect the trading behavior of private investors? : evidence from individual portfolio data

Buhlmann, Florian; Doerrenberg, Philipp; Voget, Johannes; … - 2020 - This version: May 13, 2020

We exploit a large reform of capital-gains taxation in Germany combined with portfolio-level daily panel data to study the causal effect of taxes on individual stock-trading behavior and the disposition effect. We find substantial spikes in selling probabilities around an intertemporal tax...

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Optimal social assistance and unemployment insurance in a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings

Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2015

We analyze empirically the optimal design of social insurance and assistance programs when families obtain insurance by making labor supply choices for both spouses. For this purpose, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply and savings decisions of singles and married...

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