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This paper present paper provides the first results for Germany on the impact of works councils and collective … encourage a sanguine view of recent legislation in Germany that facilitates the formation of works councils and strengthens …
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Germany, while at the same time charting the determinants of their presence. Furthermore, we identify newly established works …
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Recent years have brought growing evidence for an increasing labour demand for high skilled and a deterioration of the labour position of less skilled employees. The two most common explanations for this finding are an increasing international trade and a skill biased technological change....
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estimate the impacts of ALMP in Germany for the time period 1999-2001 with regional data of 175 labour office districts. Due to … accounts especially for the inherent simultaneity problem of ALMP. For West Germany we find positive effects of vocational … training and job creation schemes on the labour market situation, whereas the results for East Germany do not allow profound …
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In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income by working a few hours per week. The …
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start-up subsidy for unemployed individuals in Germany using propensity score matching under the CIA. Having access to rich …
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We estimate the long-term effects of start-up subsidies (SUS) for the unemployed on subjective outcome indicators of well-being, as measured by the participants' satisfaction in different domains. This extends previous analyses of the current German SUS program ("Gründungszuschuss") that...
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The German start-up subsidy (SUS) program for the unemployed has recently undergone a major make-over, altering its institutional setup, adding an additional layer of selection and leading to ambiguous predictions of the program's effectiveness. Using propensity score matching (PSM) as our main...
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From an active labor market policy perspective, start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are very effective in improving long-term labor market outcomes for participants. From a business perspective, however, the assessment of these public programs is less clear since they might attract...
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plant closings in Germany, 2006-2015. The potential effects of worker representation on plant survivability have been little …
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