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Skill-biased labor market reforms and international competitiveness
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
"This paper proposes a multi-industry trade model with integrated capital and goods markets. Labor market imperfections in line with Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) give rise to unemployment and a channel for the government to influence markets through institutional changes. Labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010643584
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Decomposing Beveridge curve dynamics by correlated unobserved components
Klinger, Sabine; Weber, Enzo - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
components of matching efficiency and separation rate (shifting parameters) as well as unemployment and vacancies. Cointegration … of and movements along the curve. Thereby, the separation rate is more important than matching efficiency and the two are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010791531
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Mismatch unemployment : evidence from Germany 2000-2010
Bauer, Anja - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2013
"This paper provides detailed empirical evidence on the scope of mismatch in Germany in the past decade, using a comprehensive administrative data set that allows for disaggregation at the levels of industry, occupation and region. The findings suggest that regional mismatch did not play an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699799
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Arbeitsmarktvermittelte Abgänge aus der Grundsicherung : der Einfluss von personen- und haushaltsgebundenen Barrieren
Achatz, Juliane; Trappmann, Mark - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011
"Drawing on the first wave of the IAB panel study 'Labor market and social security' (PASS), this analysis explores factors associated with exits from basic income sup-port for needy jobseekers to gainful employment. The impact of household context on work prospects of females and males is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592373
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They are even larger! More (on) puzzling labor market volatilities
Gartner, Hermann; Merkl, Christian; Rothe, Thomas - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009
"This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market at the business cycle frequency. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, the labor market tightness and vacancies) divided by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592399
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Stellenbesetzungen mit Hindernissen : auf der Suche nach Bestimmungsfaktoren für den Suchverlauf
Heckmann, Markus; Noll, Susanne; Rebien, Martina - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2010
"By using multinomial logistic regressions we try to chase up determinants of the course of recruitment processes. With the aid of a disjoint typology we analyse three types of successful hiring processes on predicting characteristics e. g. of the position to be filled and of the searching firm....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592433
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Skill-biased labor market reforms and international competitiveness
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
"This paper proposes a multi-industry trade model with integrated capital and goods markets. Labor market imperfections in line with Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) give rise to unemployment and a channel for the government to influence markets through institutional changes. Labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592483
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Job entry and the ways out of benefit receipt of young adults in Germany
Schels, Brigitte - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009
"The study explores the way out of benefit receipt by labour market integration of young adults in Germany. Under 25-year-olds are a target group of the German social policy. If they rely on the payment of social benefits a prompt integration into employment or training is the main priority. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592329
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Revisiting the matching function
Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian; Nordmeier, Daniela - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2014
model match formation. We use German administrative labor market data to show that the matching function correlation solely … based on idiosyncratic productivity and free entry is very close to the empirical matching function. Consequently, we argue … that standard matching function estimations are seriously biased if idiosyncratic productivity plays a role for match …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010755946
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Worker flows in Germany: Inspecting the time aggregation bias
Nordmeier, Daniela - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
"This paper analyzes the importance of time aggregation in the measurement of worker flows by exploiting daily information from German administrative data. Time aggregation caused by comparing monthly labor market states leads to an underestimation of total worker flows by around 10%. Contrary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010785503