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The Immigrant-Native Wage Gap in Germany Revisited

Ingwersen, Kai - 2019

immigrants relative to native Germans from 1994 to 2015. We decompose the wage gap using the method for unconditional quantile … immigrants. The decomposition results clearly indicate a significant growing gap with higher wages for both foreigners (13.6 to … 17.6 %) and naturalised immigrants (10.0 to 16.4 %). The findings further display a low explanation for the wage gap in …

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New Evidence on the Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany - a Matching Approach with Threefold Heterogeneity

Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2021

This paper evaluates the effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany. Since previous empirical studies of these measures have been based on relatively small datasets and focussed on East Germany, this is the first study which allows to draw policy-relevant...

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Minimum Wage in Germany : Countering the Wage and Employment Gap between Migrants and Natives?

Ingwersen, Kai; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2022

increase in part-time employment, a less pronounced decline in unemployment and a greater reduction in weekly working hours …

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Intensifying the Use of Benefit Sanctions : An Effective Tool to Shorten Welfare Receipt and Speed Up Transitions to Employment?

Boockmann, Bernhard - 2009

Benefit sanctions imposed on non-compliant welfare recipients are a new element in the German welfare system. In practice, the sanction policy and the application of sanctions vary considerably across the 439 welfare agencies. Based on combined administrative and survey data, these differences...

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An Empirical Assessment of Workload and Migrants' Health in Germany

Ingwersen, Kai; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2021

Workload and its physical and mental burden can have detrimental effects on individual health. As different jobs are associated with specific patterns of health development, occupational selection of socioeconomic groups can be attributed to health differences in society. Despite a long economic...

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The Employment Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany : A Microeconometric Evaluation

Caliendo, Marco; Hujer, Reinhard; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2021

In this paper we evaluate the employment effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany. Job creation schemes are a major element of active labour market policy in Germany and are targeted at long-term unemployed and other hard-to-place individuals. Access to very...

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New Evidence on the Effects of the Shortened School Duration in the German States : An Evaluation of Post-Secondary Education Decisions

Meyer, Tobias - 2015

Most German states have reformed university preparatory schooling during the last decade by reducing its duration from 13 to 12 years without changing the graduation requirements. In this paper, we use nationwide data on high school graduates and apply a difference-in-differences approach to...

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