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Residential location and youth unemployment : the economic geography of school-to-work transitions

Riphahn, Regina T. - 1999

In response to increased international policy attention to youth unemployment this study investigates post … youth unemployment is centered in high unemployment states and metropolitan areas. Recent changes in academic benefit …

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Immigrant participation in social assistance programs

Riphahn, Regina T. - 1998

The share of foreigners in the German social assistance program exceeds their population share and continues to grow. This study tests whether higher foreigner welfare dependence is due to foreign-native differences in behavior as opposed to exogenous characteristics. The determinants of welfare...

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Fertility assimilation of immigrants : evidence from count data models

Mayer, Jochen; Riphahn, Regina T. - 1999

This study applies count data estimation techniques to investigate the fertility adjustment of immigrants in the … whether assimilation or disruption effects dominate immigrants' fertility after migration. We find evidence in favor of the …

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Cohort effects in the educational attainment of second generation immigrants in Germany : an analysis of census data

Riphahn, Regina T. - 2001

Even though second generation immigrants make up ever increasing population shares in industrialized countries we know … of immigrants. Their schooling success still lags behind that of natives. We investigate completed degrees and school … attendance of German born immigrants and find considerable evidence suggesting that this group does not assimilate to native …

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Innovations, wages and demand for heterogeneous labour : new evidence form a matched employer-employee data-set

Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten - 2000

. This result implies that more flexible wages of the unskilled would reduce the unemployment of this group. Finally, our …

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Establishment age and wages : evidence from German linked employer-employee data

Kölling, Arnd - 2002

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Behavioral effects of probation periods : an analysis of worker absenteeism

Riphahn, Regina T.; Thalmaier, Anja - 1999

The theoretical probation literature shows that individuals have incentives to mimick "good workers" during periods of employment probation. This study empirically tests at the example of absence behavior, whether such behavioral responses to the incentives of probation periods exist. We find...

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Income and employment effects of health shocks : a test case for the German welfare state

Riphahn, Regina T. - 1998

the labor force and almost doubles the unemployment risk. The financial effects of health shocks are small on average and …

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Threshold values in german labor law and job dynamics in small firms : the case of the disability law

Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Kölling, Arnd - 2001

According to the German disability law, or Schwerbehindertengesetz, either six percent of all jobs in an establishment must be occupied by disabled empoyees or the firm has to pay a penalty of DM 200 per month for every job under consideration. This note reports results from the first...

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German works councils old and new : incidence, coverage and determinants

Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2002

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