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Evaluation der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik : ein Sachstandsbericht für die Instrumentenreform 2011

Heyer, Gerd; Koch, Susanne; Stephan, Gesine; Wolff, Joachim - 2011

Der Beitrag gibt einen ergebnisorientierten Überblick über den Stand der Evaluation der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland. Die Befunde weisen darauf hin, dass keine der bisherigen Instrumentengruppen überflüssig ist. Die meisten Maßnahmen können die Beschäftigungschancen...

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Later one knows better : the over-reporting of short-time work in firm surveys

Kagerl, Christian; Schierholz, Malte; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2022

Short-time work (STW) in Germany allows for a lot of flexibility in actual usage. Ex ante, firms notify the Federal Employment Agency about the total number of employees eligible, and, up to the total granted, firms can flexibly choose how many employees actually use STW. In firm-level surveys,...

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Informing employees in small and medium sized firms about training : results of a randomized field experiment

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Dauth, Christine; Homrighausen, Pia - 2019

We analyze a labor market program that subsidizes skill-upgrading occupational training for work-ers employed in small and medium sized enterprises. The program covers a substantial share of training costs. Nonetheless, take-up has been low. In an experimental setup, we mailed 10,000 brochures...

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Wage cyclicality and the wage curve under the microscope

Ludsteck, Johannes - 2008

werden. -- wage setting ; hiring standards ; wage rigidity ; wage curve ; matching ; censoring …

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Overeducation : new evidence for 25 European countries

Boll, Christina; Leppin, Julian Sebastian; Rossen, Anja; … - 2016

This study investigates the incidence of overeducation among workers in the EU and its underlying factors based on the most recent wave of the European Labor Force Survey (EU-LFS 2013). Its main purpose is to shed light on the interplay of so far neglected explanatory factors such as household...

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Revisiting German labour market reform effects : a panel data analysis for occupational labour markets

Stops, Michael - 2015

reforms in boosting the German economy. Considering that one of the main objectives of the reforms was to improve the matching … regarding the development of job-matching performance before and after the reform years. The results show that matching … controlling for the recession. Furthermore, increases in matching productivity have become smaller in recent years. Beyond these …

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Hartz IV and the decline of German unemployment : a macroeconomic evaluation

Hochmuth, Brigitte; Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian; … - 2019

reduced the generosity of long-term unemployment benefits. We use a model with different unemployment durations, where the … the existing disagreement in the macroeconomic literature on the unemployment effects of Hartz IV. We find that Hartz IV … was a major driver for the decline of Germany's unemployment and that partial and equilibrium effect where of equal …

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Accounting for qualification in mismatch unemployment

Bauer, Anja - 2023

This paper shows the evolution of mismatch unemployment over the period from 2007 to 2022 in Germany. A substantial … part of mismatch unemployment results from a misallocation on the qualification level rather than on the occupational level …. Taking the qualification level into account, an upward trend in mismatch unemployment in the aftermath of the COVID …

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Not coming in today - firm productivity differentials and the epidemiology of the flu

Dorner, Matthias; Haller, Peter - 2020

With more than four million cases in Germany every year, influenza and acute upper respiratory tract infectious diseases (henceforth URTI) exhibit the highest number of reported doctor consultations. Although the direct treatment costs for URTI are comparably low, the indirect economic costs,...

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Economic failure and the role of plant age and size : first evidence from German administrative data

Müller, Steffen; Stegmaier, Jens - 2014

This paper introduces a large-scale administrative panel data set on corporate bankruptcy in Germany that allows for an econometric analysis of involuntary exits where previous studies mixed voluntary and involuntary exits. Approximately 83 percent of all bankruptcies occur in plants with no...

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