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The Threat Effect of Participation in Active Labor Market Programs on Job Search Behavior of Migrants in Germany

Bergemann, Annette - 2011

Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects may differ according to ethnic origin. We apply a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job search behavioral outcomes, such as the reservation wage or...

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The Return to Labor Market Mobility : An Evaluation of Relocation Assistance for the Unemployed

Caliendo, Marco - 2015

In many European countries, labor markets are characterized by high regional disparities in terms of unemployment rates … on the one hand and low geographical mobility among the unemployed on the other hand. This is somewhat surprising and …

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Home-Ownership, Unemployed's Job Search Behavior and Post-Unemployment Outcomes

Caliendo, Marco - 2015

Although home-ownership has been shown to restrict geographic labor mobility and to affect job search behavior of … restricted mobility by more intensive (more search channels or applications) or different (more active or informal) search …

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The Gender Wage Gap : Does a Gender Gap in Reservation Wages Play a Part?

Caliendo, Marco - 2014

This paper focuses on re-examining the gender wage gap and the potential role that reservation wages play. Based on two waves of rich data from the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey we examine the importance of gender differences in reservation wages to explain the gender gap in realized wages for a...

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Did the Minimum Wage Reduce the Gender Wage Gap in Germany?

Caliendo, Marco; Wittbrodt, Linda - 2022

In many countries, women are over-represented among low-wage employees, which is why a wage floor could benefit them particularly. Following this notion, we analyse the impact of the German minimum wage introduction in 2015 on the gender wage gap. Germany poses an interesting case study in this...

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Social Networks, Job Search Methods and Reservation Wages : Evidence for Germany

Caliendo, Marco - 2010

In this paper we analyze the relationship between social networks and the job search behavior of unemployed individuals. It is believed that networks convey useful information in the job search process such that individuals with larger networks should experience a higher productivity of informal...

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New Evidence on the Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany - a Matching Approach with Threefold Heterogeneity

Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2021

This paper evaluates the effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany. Since previous empirical studies of these measures have been based on relatively small datasets and focussed on East Germany, this is the first study which allows to draw policy-relevant...

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Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality : A Regression-Discontinuity Approach

Caliendo, Marco - 2010

The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed … 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 …

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Locus of Control and Job Search Strategies

Caliendo, Marco - 2011

Standard job search theory assumes that unemployed individuals have perfect information about the effect of their search effort on the job offer arrival rate. In this paper, we present an alternative model which assumes instead that each individual has a subjective belief about the impact of his...

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Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality

Caliendo, Marco - 2012

incentives due to higher net earnings. Additional earnings during unemployment might lead to higher reservation wages prolonging … the duration of unemployment, yet also giving unemployed individuals more time to search for better and more stable jobs … evaluate the impact of marginal employment on unemployment duration and subsequent job quality, we consider a sample of fresh …

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