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Have labour market reforms at the turn of the millennium changed job durations of the new entrants? : a comparative study for Germany and Italy
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Jaenichen, Ursula; Villosio, … - 2009
opportunities by means of labour market deregulation has not been fully achieved. -- Employment duration ; work career ; tenure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923552
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Doing well in reforming the labour market? : recent trends in job stability and wages in Germany
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Jaenichen, Ursula; Rothe, Thomas - 2013
, seems to be a good example for a successful labour market reform. Nevertheless, there are concerns about rising inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792971
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Quick job entry or long-term human capital development? : the dynamic effects of alternative training schemes
Osikominu, Aderonke - 2009
This study evaluates and compares the effectiveness of two alternative training schemes for the unemployed: short, job-search oriented training and long, human capital oriented training. We investigate the impact dynamics of these programs considering both unemployment and employment duration....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003926736
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The effect of the Hartz labor market reforms on post-unemployment wages, sorting, and matching
Woodcock, Simon D. - 2020
We use linked longitudinal data on employers and employees to estimate how the 2003-2005 Hartz reforms affected the wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage effects into components attributable to selection on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228177
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Job tenure of two cohorts of young German men 1979 - 1990 : an analysis of the (West-)German employment statistic register sample concerning multivariate failure times and unobserv...
Bellmann, Lutz; Bender, Stefan; Hornsteiner, Ulrich - 2000
Based on theoretical models of job mobility this paper provides an empirical analysis of job durations in West Germany using information from two cohorts of new entrants to the labor force. We adopt an accelerated failure time model allowing for unobserved heterogeneity. Thereby we combine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318599
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295550
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528180
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Are there austerity‐related policy changes in Germany?
Eichhorst, Werner; Hassel, Anke - 2015
This paper assesses the existence and the extent of austerity‐oriented policies in Germany in the aftermath of the 2008‐9 recession. In contrast to the intensive phase of labour market and welfare state reforms in the early 2000s aimed at 'welfare readjustment', we do not see austerity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333561
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Die Wirkung der Hartz-Reform im Bereich der beruflichen Weiterbildung
Schneider, Hilmar (contributor);  … - 2006
The so-called Hartz reform has introduced fundamental changes for publicly sponsored training in Germany. This concerns … most important type of training programs before and after the reform by using administrative data of the Federal Employment … training programs had a positive impact on employment prospects already before the reform. Results for the relative short …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003464501
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Job creation schemes in turbulent times
Bergemann, Annette; Pohlan, Laura; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016
This paper analyzes the impact of job creation schemes (JCS) on job search outcomes in the context of the turbulent East German labor market in the aftermath of the German reunification. High job destruction characterized the economic environment. JCS were heavily used in order to cushion this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581656