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social resources on the individual length of unemployment in Germany are analysed with data from the German Socio … to new additional findings. In West-Germany mobile persons and actors with internal control find a job more easily while … in East-Germany social capital has a positive influence on the probability of reemployment. …
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Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex-ante...
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Unemployment rates are often higher for migrants than for natives. This could result from longer periods of unemployment as well as from shorter periods of employment. This paper jointly examines male native-migrant differences in the duration of unemployment and subsequent employment using...
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Standard job search theory assumes that unemployed individuals have perfect information about the effect of their … search behavior using a novel panel data set of newly-unemployed individuals in Germany. Consistent with our theoretical …
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individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit generosity, either in terms of benefit duration or … unemployment benefits in Germany, which increases from 12 months to 18 months at the age of 45, to identify the effect of extended …
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networks should experience a higher productivity of informal search. Hence, job search theory suggests that individuals with … novel data set of unemployed individuals in Germany containing extensive information on job search behavior and direct …
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