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Who suffers the greatest loss? : costs of job displacement for migrants and natives
Illing, Hannah; Koch, Theresa - 2021
' slightly lower geographic mobility across federal states may explain part of their lower re-employment success; iii) our …
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Beyond lost earnings : the long-term impact of job displacement on workers' commuting behavior
Duan, Yige; Jost, Oskar; Jost, Ramona - 2022
We study the long-term impact of job displacement on workers' commuting behavior. Our measures of commuting exploit geo-coordinates of workers' places of residence and places of work, from which we calculate the door-to-door commuting distance and commuting time. Using German employee-employer...
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How substitutable are workers? : evidence from worker deaths
Jäger, Simon; Heining, Jörg - 2022
We estimate how exogenous worker exits affect firms' demand for incumbent workers and new hires. Drawing on administrative data from Germany, we analyze 34,000 unexpected worker deaths, which, on average, raise the remaining workers' wages and retention probabilities. The average effect masks...
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The German labor market in the Great Recession : shocks and institutions
Gehrke, Britta; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian - 2017
This paper analyzes Germany's unusual labor market experience during the Great Recession. We estimate a general equilibrium model with a detailed labor market block for postunification Germany. This allows us to disentangle the role of institutions (short-time work, government spending rules)...
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The dovish turnaround : Germany's social benefit reform and job findings
Weber, Enzo - 2024
On the labour markets, recent decades were characterised by structural supply-side reforms in many countries. Following its hawkish reforms from the 2000s, Germany has recently made a dovish turnaround. Conditions in basic income support for unemployed became more generous. Before, a temporary...
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Does marginal employment promote regular employment for unemployed welfare benefit recipients in Germany?
Lietzmann, Torsten; Schmelzer, Paul; Wiemers, Jürgen - 2016
. Our results for single and childless unemployment benefit-II recipients highlight the importance of the dynamic approach …: We find differing treatment effects by unemployment duration. According to our results, marginal employment does increase …
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Low-wage jobs : a means for employment integration of the unemployed? ; evidence from administrative data in Germany and Austria
Grün, Carola; Mahringer, Helmut; Rhein, Thomas - 2011
Institutions. Two possible exits of low-wage spells are focused on: exits to higher-paid employment (upward mobility vs …. persistence), and exits to unemployment ('no pay-low pay cycle'). The results show shorter spell durations in Austria, pointing to … firm-related characteristics and of the individual unemployment history on exit probabilities and the role of duration …
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Worker flows in Germany : inspecting the time aggregation bias
Nordmeier, Daniela - 2012
steady-state unemployment dynamics. The reconsideration of German worker flows reveals that both the job finding rate and the … separation rate play an important role for German unemployment dynamics, but the job finding rate dominates in the long run …. -- Time aggregation ; worker flows ; job finding rate ; separation rate ; unemployment decomposition …
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Temporary overpessimism: job loss expectations following a large negative employment shock
Emmler, Julian; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2021
Job loss expectations were widespread among workers in East Germany aftfter reunification with West Germany. Though experiencing a large negative employment shock, East German workers were still overpessimistic immediately aftfter reunification with respect to their job risk. Over time, job loss...
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Do social networks mitigate stigma effects from long-term unemployment?
Rebien, Martina - 2019
, these persons face special problems: There is a strong stigma of long-term unemployment attached to these persons. It … or motivation to work. Furthermore, long-term unemployment can lead to social isolation, since social contacts are more … that arise from long-term unemployment and possible prejudice employers' HR decision-makers. Using data from the German Job …
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