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The "Out of Africa" hypothesis, human genetic diversity, and comparative economic development

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012

progress. -- Out of Africa hypothesis ; human genetic diversity ; comparative development ; population density ; Neolithic …

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Does immigration into their neighborhoods incline voters toward the extreme right? : the case of the freedom party of Austria

Halla, Martin; Wagner, Alexander F.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2012

This paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme right-wing parties: the presence of immigrants in one's neighborhood. We study the case of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Under the leadership of Jörg Haider, this party increased...

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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … relative attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness …

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Mandatory integration agreements for unemployed job seekers: a randomized controlled field experiment in Germany

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Stephan, Gesine - 2021

In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment …

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Job displacement and first birth over the business cycle

Hofmann, Barbara; Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2017

This paper investigates the impact of job displacement on women's first birth rates, and the variation in this effect over the business cycle. We used mass layoffs to estimate the causal effects of involuntary job loss on fertility in the short and medium term, up to five years after...

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Under heavy pressure : intense monitoring and accumulation of sanctions for young welfare recipients in Germany

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - 2017

cut for three months. We analyze the impact of these sanctions on job search outcomes and on transitions out of the labor … significantly increase the transition rate out of the labor force of both groups of young men, while the second sanction amplify …

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Predicting re-employment : machine learning versus assessments by unemployed workers and by their caseworkers

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Kunaschk, Max; Lang, Julia; … - 2023

policy mix of unemployment insurance agencies. We analyze unique data on three sources of information on the probability of … re-employment within 6 months (RE6), for the same individuals sampled from the inflow into unemployment. First, they were …

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Structural empirical analysis of vacancy referrals with imperfect monitoring and the strategic use of sickness absence

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Foerster, Hanno; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2023

care system on unemployment durations. We estimate that for around 25% of unemployed workers, removing the channel that … enables strategic sick reporting reduces the mean unemployment duration by 4 days. …

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Self-employment dynamics, state dependence and cross-mobility patterns

Caliendo, Marco (contributor); Uhlendorff, Arne (contributor) - 2008

-employment. -- Self-employment ; state dependence ; labor market dynamics ; unemployment …

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The public health costs of job loss

Kuhn, Andreas; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009

benefits strongly increase due to job loss. -- Social cost of unemployment ; health ; job loss ; plant closure …

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