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Mismatch unemployment : evidence from Germany, 2000 - 2010
Bauer, Anja - 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/10009788092
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Sequential versus non-sequential search among German employers : evidence from a job vacancy survey
Gürtzgen, Nicole; Moczall, Andreas - 2019
In this note, we provide evidence on the extent and determinants of sequential versus non-sequential search among German employers. Using unique representative data on employers' recruitment behavior, we exploit direct information on whether employers first formed a pool of applicants from which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052243
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They are even larger! : more (on) puzzling labor market volatilities
Gartner, Hermann; Merkl, Christian; Rothe, Thomas - 2009
Wir zeigen empirisch, dass die konjunkturellen Schwankungen am Arbeitsmarkt in Deutschland höher sind als in den USA … Wahrscheinlichkeit Arbeit zu finden) im Verhältnis zur Volatilität der Arbeitsproduktivität etwa doppelt so hoch wie in den USA. Wir …
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Do active labour market policies for welfare recipients in Germany raise their regional outflow into work? : a matching function approach
Wapler, Rüdiger; Wolf, Katja; Wolff, Joachim - 2018
outcomes, much fewer studies are concerned with effects of these policies on the regional matching-process between job seekers … can improve the matching efficiency. We analyse quarterly panel data of German job centres in the period 2006 to 2011 and … matching-function framework by applying the system generalized methods of moments estimator. Our results point to positive …
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Forecasting with a mismatch-enhanced labor market matching function
Hutter, Christian; Weber, Enzo - 2014
labor market matching function. In theory, higher mismatch lowers matching efficiency which increases the risk that the … findings can be improved by a mismatch-enhanced labor market matching function. For this purpose, we construct so … der Prognosegüte der Matching-Funktion. Theoretisch sinkt die Matchingeffizienz mit höherem Mismatch, wodurch das Risiko …
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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016
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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Panel evidence on within-occupation change in job tasks and individual wages
Müller, Gerrit - 2024
Drawing on newly available panel data, this paper presents an empirical analysis of the wage effects of changing job tasks, assessed for individuals at their workplace. I am therefore able to exploit within-occupation within-individual variation, over time, to study wage returns to cognitive,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014462153
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Evidence on job search models from a survey of unemployed workers in Germany
Della Vigna, Stefano; Heining, Jörg; Schmieder, Johannes; … - 2020
. Insbesondere das zweite und das dritte dieser Ergebnisse lassen sich kaum mit den Standardmodellen zur Arbeitsuche basierend auf …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012210961
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Hartz IV and the decline of German unemployment : a macroeconomic evaluation
Hochmuth, Brigitte; Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian; … - 2019
This paper proposes a new approach to evaluate the macroeconomic effects of the Hartz IV reform in Germany, which reduced the generosity of long-term unemployment benefits. We use a model with different unemployment durations, where the reform initiates both a partial effect and an equilibrium...
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Stellenbesetzungen mit Hindernissen : auf der Suche nach Bestimmungsfaktoren für den Suchverlauf
Heckmann, Markus; Noll, Susanne; Rebien, Martina - 2010
Dieser Beitrag begibt sich mittels multinomialer logistischer Regressionen auf die Suche nach Bestimmungsfaktoren für den Suchverlauf bei erfolgreichen Stellenbesetzungen. Hierzu werden drei Verlaufstypen unterschieden und auf Zusammenhänge insbesondere mit Merkmalen der Stelle und des...
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