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The effects of public sector sponsored training on individual employment performance in East Germany

Hujer, Reinhard; Wellner, Marc - 2000

This study analyses the effects of public sector sponsored vocational training on individual unemployment and employment duration in East Germany. The data is taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). The empirical analysis is limited to training measures that took place between July...

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An evaluation of public-sector-sponsored continuous vocational training programs in East Germany

Lechner, Michael - 1999

This study analyses the effects of public-sector-sponsored continuous vocational training and retraining in East Germany after unification with West Germany in 1990. It presents econometric estimates of the average gains from training participation in terms of employment probabilities, earnings,...

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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...

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Rising wage inequality in Germany : increasing heterogeneity and changing selection into full-time work

Biewen, Martin; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Lazzer, Jakob de - 2017

This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables …, composition changes explain a large part of the increase in wage inequality among full-time workers. The composition effects are …

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Towards an East German wage curve : NUTS boundaries, labour market regions and unemployment spillovers

Kosfeld, Reinhold; Dreger, Christian - 2017

The relevance of spatial effects in the wage curve can be rationalized by the model of monopsonistic competition in … unemployment is often ignored. Both issues are particularly important in high unemployment regimes like East Germany where a wage … existence of an East German wage curve. Due to the nonstationarity of spatial data, a global panel cointegration approach is …

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Industry fluctuations and college major choices : evidence from an energy boom and bust

Han, Luyi; Winters, John V. - 2019

This paper examines how college students in the United States altered their college major decisions during the energy boom and bust of the 1970s and 1980s. We focus on petroleum engineering and geology, two majors closely related to the energy industry. We find strong evidence that the energy...

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Long-run effects of training programs for the unemployed in East Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); … - 2007

Public sector sponsored training was implemented at a large scale during the transition process in East Germany. Based on new administrative data, we estimate the differential effects of three different programs for East Germany during the transition process. We apply a dynamic multiple...

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The effects of vocational training programmes on the duration of unemployment in Eastern Germany

Hujer, Reinhard (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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What have we learned? : assessing labor market institutions and indicators

Eichhorst, Werner (contributor); Feil, Michael (contributor) - 2008

Over the last decade, both the availability of quantitative indicators on labor market institutions and of studies trying to explain differences in national labor market performance through institutional variables have burgeoned significantly. It is now time to review these indicators and the...

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Product market regulation, firm size, unemployment and informality in developing economies

Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Terra, Cristina - 2011

formal sector wage premium. The opposite is true for labor market regulation. Finally, we show that the so-called overhiring … externality due to wage bargaining translates into a smaller relative size of the informal sector. -- informality ; product and …

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