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New Insights on Unemployment Duration and Post Unemployment Earnings in Germany : Censored Box-Cox Quantile Regression at Work

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2021

periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post-unemployment earnings in West Germany. For … the unemployment duration, we estimate censored Box-Cox quantile regression, which is robust with respect to the … the length of benefit entitlement is only of minor importance for the duration of search unemployment and for post …

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End-of-Year Spending and the Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed

Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2017

This study re-estimates the employment effects of training programs for the unemployed using exogenous variation in participation caused by budget rules in Germany in the 1980s and early 1990s, resulting in the infamous "end-of-year spending". In addition to estimating complier effects with...

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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany : Increasing Heterogeneity and Changing Selection into Full-Time Work

Biewen, Martin - 2017

This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables, composition changes explain a large part of the increase in wage inequality among full-time workers. The composition effects are larger for females than for males, and...

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The 2011 Break in the Part-Time Indicator and the Evolution of Wage Inequality in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2019

German social security records involve an indicator for part-time or full-time work. In 2011, the reporting procedure was changed suggesting that a fraction of worker recorded to be working full-time before the change were in fact part-time workers. This study develops a correction based on...

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Evaluating the Dynamic Employment Effects of Training Programs in East Germany Using Conditional Difference-in-Differences

Bergemann, Annette; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Speckesser, Stefan - 2021

This paper evaluates the effects of Public Sponsored Training in East Germany in the context of reiterated treatments. Selection bias based on observed characteristics is corrected for by applying kernel matching based on the propensity score. We control for further selection and the presence of...

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Skill Wage Premia, Employment, and Cohort Effects : Are Workers in Germany All of the Same Type?

Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2008

-specific unemployment rates in 1997. The required nominal wage reductions range from 8.8 to 12.2% and are the higher the lower the employees …

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Can a Task-Based Approach Explain the Recent Changes in the German Wage Structure?

Antonczyk, Dirk - 2009

This paper investigates the changes in the German wage structure for full-time working males from 1999 to 2006. Our analysis builds on the task-based approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany, and also accounts for job complexity. We perform a...

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Polarization and Rising Wage Inequality : Comparing the U.S. And Germany

Antonczyk, Dirk - 2010

This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz (1995) to separate age, time, and cohort effects. Between 1979 and 2004, wage inequality increased strongly in both the U.S. and Germany but there were various country specific...

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The Heterogeneous Effects of Training Incidence and Duration on Labor Market Transitions

Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2010

This paper estimates the impact of training incidence and duration on employment transitions accounting for the endogeneity of program participation and duration. We specify a very flexible bivariate random effects probit model for employment and training participation and we use Bayesian Markov...

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Get Training or Wait? Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed in West Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; Voelter, Robert - 2021

inflows into unemployment for the years 1986/87 and 1993/94 and apply local linear matching based on the estimated propensity … score to estimate the effects of training programs starting during 1 to 2, 3 to 4, and 5 to 8 quarters of unemployment. The …

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