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of labor market reform on unemployment, growth, and welfare. The model has a large number of risk-averse households who … can invest in risk-free physical capital and risky human capital. Unemployed households receive unemployment benefits and … employment effects: the equilibrium unemployment rate has been reduced by approximately 1.1 percentage points from 7.5 to 6 …
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. The effects of training programmes on the outflows from unemployment and the effects of all ALMP programmes on the … gives some tentative support to the view that public training programmes can be used to reduce unemployment. …
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This paper analyses the effects of minimum wages on competition in the German roofing sector. The case is particularly interesting since this sector is faced with a uniform minimum wage despite significant regional disparities in productivity and wages. As a control industry we take the plumbing...
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I extend the model-based literature on spillover effects of labour market reforms on foreign (un-)employment by …
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Using different regional data sources for East Germany the three largest active labour market policy (ALMP) programmes - job creation schemes (JCS), structural adjustment schemes (SAS) and public training (PT) - are evaluated. After addressing the regional allocation rule of the funding of ALMPs...
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combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find …
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individuals. The programme effects are estimated considering the timing of treatment in the individual unemployment spell …. Applying propensity score matching in a dynamic setting where the time until treatment in the unemployment spell is stratified … quarter of the unemployment spell. For East Germany, none of the groups experiences an improvement of the labour market …
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