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Bridge unemployment in Germany : response in labour supply to an increased early retirement age

Giesecke, Matthias; Kind, Michael - 2013

This study examines an increase in the early retirement age from 60 to 63 for the group of older unemployed men in Germany. As consequence of this policy reform, the time to retirement is increased from the perspective of recently unemployed individuals and therefore serves as a source of...

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Late-career unemployment and cognitive abilities

Freise, Diana; Schmitz, Hendrik; Westphal, Matthias - 2022

We study the effect of unemployment on cognitive abilities among individuals aged between 50 and 65 in Europe. To this end, we exploit plant closures and use flexible event-study estimations together with an experimentally elicited measure of fluid intelligence, namely word recall. We find that,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013411839

Killing them with kindness : negative distributional externalities of increasing UI benefits

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Vorell, Matthias - 2009

Of the many labour market Hartz IV reforms that have been implemented in Germany since 2005, the role of short-term unemployment insurance has not received much attention. In this paper we examine distributional effects of labour earnings and unemployment benefits using simulated increases in...

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Does parental unemployment affect the quality of their children's first job?

Kleverbeck, Maria; Kind, Michael Sebastian - 2015

In this paper the relationship between parental unemployment at time of children’s labor market entrance on the quality of their children’s first job is analyzed. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1991-2012 the quality of the first job in terms of wage,...

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Nickel and dimed German style : the working poor in Germany

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2009

Using data from the German SOEP, this paper analyses whether there have been (a) any significant changes in poverty rates and poverty intensities before and after the Hartz IV reforms and (b) whether there have been observable changes in the effect of employment in reducing the threat or...

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Neighborhood effects and individual unemployment

Bauer, Thomas K.; Fertig, Michael; Vorell, Matthias - 2011

Using a unique dataset for Germany that links individual longitudinal data from the GSOEP to regional data from the federal employment agency and data of real estate prices, we evaluate the impact of neighborhood unemployment on individual employment propects. The panel setup and richness of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580249

Sons' unexpected long term scarring due to fathers' unemployment

Kind, Michael; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2012

This study focuses on the long term eff ects of unemployment on subjective wellbeing in a family context for 17-24 year old sons living with at least one parent, using data from the German SOEP. As fathers enter unemployment, sons‘ subjective wellbeing is not only reduced immediately, but also...

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More gray, more volatile? : aging and (optimal) monetary policy

Baksa, Daniel; Munkacsi, Zsuzsa - 2019

The evidence on the inflation impact of aging is mixed, and there is no evidence regarding the volatility of inflation …. Based on advanced economies' data and a DSGE-OLG model, we find that aging leads to downward pressure on inflation and … higher inflation volatility. Our paper is also the first, using this framework, to discuss how aging affects the transmission …

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What Determines the Reservation Wages of Unemployed Workers? : New Evidence From German Micro Data

Prasad, Eswar - 2003

This paper provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between reservation wages of unemployed workers and macroeconomic factors--including the unemployment rate and generosity of the unemployment compensation system--as well as individual-specific determinants, such as human capital...

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Recent U.S. labor force dynamics : reversible or not?

Balakrishnan, Ravi; Dao, Mai; Solé López-Pinto, Juan; … - 2015

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