beginning of the century. Germany is an exception. A large increase in the prices of buildings, structures and lands for private …

positive short- and long-term effects of benefit sanctions which are robust for men and women in East and West Germany. The … effects diminish with the elapsed unemployment duration until a sanction is imposed. The limited use of benefit sanctions can …

Over the past three decades Germany has repeatedly deregulated the law on temporary agency work by stepwise increasing … reforms should have had an effect on the employment duration within temporary work agencies. Based on an informative … administrative data set we use hazard rate models to examine whether the employment duration has changed in response to these reforms …

individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit generosity, either in terms of benefit duration or … entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite … the disincentive effect of UI on unemployment duration, UI benefit generosity may also increase job match quality by …

search behavior using a novel panel data set of newly-unemployed individuals in Germany. Consistent with our theoretical … effort ; reservation wage ; locus of control ; unemployment duration …

This paper examines how immigrants' migration duration and saving decisions in the host country respond to the … substitute consumption intertemporally. However, the empirical results from immigrants in Germany reveal that optimal migration … duration decreases in ppp. Holding individual immigrant characteristics constant, immigrants from poorer source countries have …

-retirement decision. Employing individual data from the European Community Household Panel for Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K., a … unemployed which offer a pathway to early retirement such as, Germany and Spain, older displaced workers exhibit lower re … heterogeneity and to the endogeneity of displacement. -- Job displacement ; job loss ; unemployment duration ; retirement …

periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post-unemployment earnings in West Germany. For … the unemployment duration, we estimate censored Box-Cox quantile regression, which is robust with respect to the … the length of benefit entitlement is only of minor importance for the duration of search unemployment and for post …

both unemployment and employment duration. Our analysis uses a rich administrative longitudinal data set for Germany where … unemployment. Long-term training schemes increase the average duration of employment spells more strongly than short-term training …. However, they increase the expected unemployment duration if they are started early during unemployment. This negative short …