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Does extending unemployment benefits improve job quality?

Nekoei, Arash; Weber, Andrea - 2015

insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression … balance between two offsetting forces: UI causes agents to seek higher-wage jobs, but also reduces wages by lengthening … both in our sample and across studies, reconciling disparate wage-effect estimates. Empirically, UI raises wages by …

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What works? : a meta analysis of recent active labor market program evaluations

Card, David E.; Kluve, Jochen; Weber, Andrea - 2015

We present a meta-analysis of impact estimates from over 200 recent econometric evaluations of active labor market programs from around the world. We classify estimates by program type and participant group, and distinguish between three different post-program time horizons. Using meta-analytic...

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Are job search programs a promising tool? : A microeconometric evaluation for Austria

Weber, Andrea (contributor); Hofer, Helmut (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Employment effects of early interventions on job search programs

Weber, Andrea (contributor); Hofer, Helmut (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Individual incentives in program participation : splitting up the process in assignment and enrollment

Weber, Andrea (contributor) - 2008

In this paper we investigate two stages in the process that leads to participation in ALMP programs. We use unique administrative data from the Austrian unemployment registers which allow us to distinguish between caseworker assignment and actual program enrollment. Although 25% of newly...

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Active labor market policy evaluations : a meta-analysis

Card, David E.; Kluve, Jochen; Weber, Andrea - 2009

This paper presents a meta-analysis of recent microeconometric evaluations of active labor market policies. Our sample consists of 199 program estimates drawn from 97 studies conducted between 1995 and 2007. In about one-half of these cases we have both a short-term impact estimate (for a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003809639

Do wages compensate for anticipated working time restrictions? : Evidence from seasonal employment in Austria

Del Bono, Emilia (contributor); Weber, Andrea (contributor) - 2006

In this paper we investigate the existence of compensating wage differentials across seasonal and non seasonal jobs, which arise due to anticipated working time restrictions. We build on a theoretical model by Abowd and Ashenfelter (1981), which links the compensating wage differential to...

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Internal labor markets: a worker flow approach

Huitfeldt, Ingrid; Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Nimczik, … - 2021

This paper develops a new method to study how workers’ career and wage profiles are shaped by internal labor markets (ILM) and job hierarchies in firms. Our paper tackles the conceptual challenge of organizing jobs within firms into hierarchy levels by proposing a data-driven ranking method...

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Persistence of the school entry age effect in a system of flexible tracking

Puhani, Patrick A. (contributor); Weber, Andrea (contributor) - 2007

In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of …

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Do politicians affect firm outcomes? : evidence from connections to the German federal parliament

Diegmann, André; Pohlan, Laura; Weber, Andrea - 2024

We study how connections to German federal parliamentarians affect firm dynamics by constructing a novel dataset to measure connections between politicians and the universe of firms. To identify the causal effect of access to political power, we exploit (i) new appointments to the company...

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