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Poland on the dole : unemployment benefits, training, and long-term unemployment during transition
Puhani, Patrick A. - 1996
We analyse the duration of unemployment spells in Poland using data from the Polish Labour Force Survey of August 1994. The effects on the duration of unemployment of important socio-economic and demographic characteristics are explored besides the impacts of the unemployment benefit system and...
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Die Arbeitserlaubnis als Instrument der Arbeitsmarktpolitik zur Steuerung internationaler Zuwanderung auf den Arbeitsmarkt
Velling, Johannes - 1995
Die Arbeitserlaubnis ist das wichtigste Instrument zur Kontrolle des Arbeitsmarktzugangs von ausländischen Immigranten. Die Erteilung einer allgemeinen Arbeitserlaubnis wird - unter Beachtung des Anwerbestopps - normalerweise nur dann vorgenommen, wenn kein Deutscher oder gleichberechtigter...
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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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Low-wage jobs : stepping stone or poverty trap?
Knabe, Andreas; Plum, Alexander - 2010
We examine whether low-paid jobs have an effect on the occupational advancement probability of unemployed persons to obtain better-paid jobs in the future (stepping-stone effect). We make use of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and apply a dynamic random-effects probit model. Our...
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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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Ist der Beruf entscheidend? : zum Einfluss beruflicher Eigenschaften auf die Dauer familienbedingter Nichterwerbsphasen von Frauen
Stuth, Stefan; Hennig, Marina - 2014
Die Forschung zum Themenfeld der Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie schenkt dem Beruf selten Beachtung. In diesem Aufsatz gehen wir deshalb der Frage nach, inwieweit der Beruf die Dauer von familienbedingten Erwerbsunterbrechungen beeinflusst. Welche Bedeutung hat die berufliche Schließung,...
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Technological change and skill obsolescence : the case of German apprenticeship training
Blechinger, Doris; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 1996
The paper analyses the applicability of vocational training and the earnings of apprentices using survey data from West Germany in 1979, 1985/86 and 1991/92. The applicability has decreased remarkably between 1979 and 1991/92. The objective of the analysis is a survey-data-based assessment of...
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Business start-ups by the unemployed : an econometric analysis based on firm data
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reize, Frank - 1998
This study investigates firm survival and employment growth of start-ups by unemployed people in East and West Germany as promoted by the Work Support Act (so called bridging allowances). In 1994, the services provided were improved considerably, which led to a sharp increase in the number of...
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The indirect fiscal benefits of low-skilled immigration
Colas, Mark; Sachs, Dominik - 2021
Low-skilled immigrants indirectly affect public finances through their effect on native wages & labor supply. We operationalize this indirect fiscal effect in various models of immigration and the labor market. We derive closed-form expressions for this effect in terms of estimable statistics....
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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
on self-employment, we exploit a reform-driven exogenous cut in UI benefits to identify its causal effect on general … schedule which changed as a result of the 2012 Spanish labor market reform, we estimate the causal reform effects on the … for individuals finding re-employment. Due to the reform's unintended consequences for self-employment, its general …
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