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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market
Beyer, Robert - 2017
This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
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The aggregate effects of the Hartz reforms in Germany
Hertweck, Matthias S.; Sigrist, Oliver - 2012 - This Version: December 21, 2012
This paper quantifies the impact of the Hartz reforms on matching efficiency, using monthly SOEP gross worker flows … the outflow rate (job finding) has been steadily increasing. This indicates that matching efficiency has improved … substantially in recent years. Results from an estimated matching function - pointing to efficiency gains of more than 20 …
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Estimating incentive and welfare effects of non-stationary unemployment benefits
Launov, Andrey; Wälde, Klaus - 2010
The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits …
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Hartz and minds: happiness effects of reforming an employment agency
Deter, Max - 2020
Since the labor market reforms around 2005, known as the Hartz reforms, Germany has experienced declining unemployment rates. However, little is known about the reforms' effect on individual life satisfaction of unemployed workers. This study applies difference-in-difference estimations and...
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Why does unemployment hurt the employed? : evidence from the life satisfaction gap between the public and private sectors
Lüchinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2008 - Version of: March 11, 2008
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular, job security, in workers' well-being by exploiting sector-specific institutional differences...
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Life satisfaction, pro-activity, and employment
Akay, Alpaslan; Karabulut, Gökhan; Yilmaz, Levent - 2021
Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper investigates how pro-active time-use (e.g., in sports/arts/socializing) relates to subjective well-being of the unemployed and their probability of finding a new job. Allowing for a variety of socio-demographic and...
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Naturalization and labor market performance of immigrants in Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Saif, Salwan - 2018
Naturalization may be a relevant policy instrument affecting immigrant integration in host-country labor markets. We study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental...
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Do labour market institutions matter? : micro-level wage effects of international outsourcing in three European countries
Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger; Munch, Jakob Roland - 2008
This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631738
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Job placement via private vs. public employment agencies: investigating selection effects and job match quality in Germany
Ayaita, Adam; Grund, Christian; Pütz, Lisa - 2021
addition, we find evidence based on propensity score matching estimations that private agencies tend to create better matches …
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Public employment agency reform, matching efficiency, and German unemployment
Merkl, Christian; Sauerbier, Timo - 2023
Our paper analyzes the role of public employment agencies in job matching, in particular the effects of the … restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment … workers reduced unemployed by 0.8 percentage points. Through the lens of an aggregate matching function, more activation is …
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