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Beschäftigung und Arbeitslosigkeit älterer Arbeitnehmer : eine mikroökonometrische Evaluation der Arbeitslosengeldreform von 1997
Brüning, Eva M. (contributor); Wilke, Ralf A. (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314698
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Do hiring subsidies reduce unemployment among the elderly? : Evidence from two natural experiments
Boockmann, Bernhard (contributor) - 2007
We estimate the effects of hiring subsidies for older workers on transitions from unemployment to employment in Germany … of unemployed jobseekers in Germany and was specifically made available for our purposes from administrative data …. Consistent support for an employment effect of hiring subsidies can only be found for women in East Germany. Concerning other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003404796
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Fixing the leak : unemployment incidence before and after the 2006 reform of unemployment benefits in Germany
Dlugosz, Stephan; Stephan, Gesine; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2009
From 2002–2004, the German government passed several laws that curtailed the generosity of the unemployment compensation system. One of the most ambitious changes was a considerable reduction in unemployment benefit entitlement lengths for older unemployed, which was effective during 2006 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003914220
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Beschäftigung und Arbeitslosigkeit älterer Arbeitnehmer : eine mikroökonometrische Evaluation der Arbeitslosengeldreform von 1997
Brüning, Eva M. (contributor); Wilke, Ralf A. (contributor) - 2006 - Rev. version
In 1997, the German government enacted a reform of the unemployment insurance system which lead to a reduction of the maximum entitlement length for unemployment benefits. The paper analyses the effects of this reform on the risk of unemployment and on unemployment duration of the older...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003671087
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The Effect of Pension Subsidies on the Retirement Timing of Older Women : Evidence from a Kink Design in Germany
Ye, Han - 2019
I estimate the effect of additional pension benefits on women's retirement decisions by examining a German pension subsidy program for low-pay workers. The subsidies have a kinked relationship with the recipients' past contributions, creating a sharply different slope of benefits for similar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012890153
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Workplace Health Promotion and Labour Market Performance of Employees
Huber, Martin - 2014
This paper investigates the average effects of (firm-provided) workplace health promotion measures in form of the analysis of sickness absenteeism and health circles/courses on labour market out-comes of the firms' employees. Exploiting linked employer-employee panel data that consist of rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050971
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The 'Pupil' Factory : Specialization and the Production of Human Capital in Schools
Fryer, Roland G. - 2016
Starting in the 2013-2014 school year, I conducted a randomized field experiment in fifty traditional public elementary schools in Houston, Texas designed to test the potential productivity benefits of teacher specialization in schools. Treatment schools altered their schedules to have teachers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993233
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Eine empirische Analyse von Sanktionen für Arbeitslose in Westdeutschland während der 1980er und 1990er Jahre
Wilke, Ralf A. - 2003
This paper describes some empirical phenomena about sanctions in the unemployment compensation system in Germany using … the unemployed. From these results it is questionable whether the current activation policy for unemployed in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448893
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Reduction in the long-term unemployment of the elderly : a success story from Finnland
Kyyrä, Tomi (contributor); Wilke, Ralf A. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002240654
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Disability Insurance, Population Health and Employment in Sweden
Laun, Lisa - 2011
This paper describes the development of population health and disability insurance utilization for older workers in Sweden and analyzes the relation between the two. We use three different measures of population health: (1) the mortality rate (measured between 1950 and 2009); (2) the prevalence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125163