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The return to labor market mobility : an evaluation of relocation assistance for the unemployed

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Mahlstedt, Robert - 2015

In many European countries, labor markets are characterized by high regional disparities in terms of unemployment rates on the one hand and low geographical mobility among the unemployed on the other hand. This is somewhat surprising and raises the question of why only minor shares of unemployed...

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Earnings exemptions for unemployed workers : the relationship between marginal employment, unemployment duration and job quality

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016

In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income by working a few hours per week. The intention is to keep unemployed job seekers attached to the labour market and to increase their job-finding probabilities. To analyze the unemployment dynamics of job seekers...

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Marginal employment, unemployment duration and job match quality

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2012

In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income during job search by taking up "marginal employment" up to a threshold without any deduction from their benefits. Marginal employment can be considered as a wage subsidy as it lowers labour costs for firms owing to...

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Benefit duration, unemployment duration and job match quality : a regression-discontinuity approach

Caliendo, Marco; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2009

The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit generosity, either in terms of benefit duration or entitlement, has a negative impact on the job...

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Income support systems, labor market policies and labor supply : the German experience

Caliendo, Marco - 2009

In view of the demographic trends, most EU countries face the problem of a declining work force in the future. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and pension systems) and total labor supply is of...

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The post-reform effectiveness of the new German start-up subsidy for the unemployed

Bellmann, Lutz; Caliendo, Marco; Tübbicke, Stefan - 2017

current subsidy program underwent a major reform in 2011 that changed its key parameters: support was lowered, eligibility …-ante predictions on the post-reform effectiveness of the program are ambiguous, and knowledge about the importance of institutional … and business characteristics of participants before and after the reform and we find significant differences in terms of …

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Start-up subsidies for the unemployed : long-term evidence and effect heterogeneity

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - 2010

Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies (ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed accounted for nearly 17% of the total spending on ALMP in 2004....

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The IZA evaluation dataset : towards evidence-based labor policy-making

Caliendo, Marco; Falk, Armin; Kaiser, Lutz C.; … - 2010

The evaluation of labor market policies has become an important issue in many European countries. In recent years, a number of them have opened their administrative databases for evaluation studies. The advantages of administrative data are straightforward: they are accurate, contain a large...

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Regional effect heterogeneity of start-up subsidies for the unemployed

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - 2013

Recent microeconometric evaluation studies have shown that start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are an effective policy tool to improve long-term employment and income prospects of participants, in particular compared to other active labor market programs (e.g. training, job search...

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Subsidized start-ups out of unemployment : a comparison to regular business start-ups

Caliendo, Marco; Hogenacker, Jens; Künn, Steffen; … - 2015

Offering unemployed individuals a subsidy to become self-employed is a widespread active labor market policy strategy. Previous studies have illustrated its high effectiveness to help participants escaping unemployment and improving their labor market prospects compared to other unemployed...

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