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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2021
- the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France …, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …
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East-West Trade and Migration : The Austro-German Case
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2021
Trade and migration have become more important in recent years for Austria and Germany. The transition in Central and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321420
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"The Double Dividend of Training" - Labor Market Effects of Work-Related Continuous Education in Switzerland
Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022
Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244243
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Do Firms Benefit from Active Labour Market Policies?
Lechner, Michael - 2013
This paper investigates the link between variation in the supply of workers who participate in specific types of active labour market policies (ALMPs) and firm performance using a new exceptionally informative German employer-employee data base. For identification we exploit that German local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075746
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Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed : Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity
Caliendo, Marco - 2010
(ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147125
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The Evaluation of Immigration Policies
Rinne, Ulf - 2012
This chapter summarizes the literature on the evaluation of immigration policies. It brings together two strands of the literature dealing with the evaluation of labor market programs and with the economic integration of immigrants. Next to immigrant selection and settlement policies, there are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109791
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They are Even Larger! More (on) Puzzling Labor Market Volatilities
Gartner, Hermann - 2009
This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, labor market tightness, and job vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155589
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Can Training Programs or Rather Wage Subsidies Bring the Unemployed Back to Work? A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation for Germany
Neubäumer, Renate - 2010
administrative data set from Germany and statistical matching techniques. Our treatment groups consist of unemployed persons taking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144940
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Optimal Use of Labor Market Policies : The Role of Job Search Assistance
Wunsch, Conny - 2010
This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is based on a framework, that allows for endogenous choice of benefit types and levels, wage taxes or subsidies, and activation measures such as monitoring and job search assistance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147543
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Discretionary Measures of Active Labor Market Policy : The German Employment Promotion Reform in Perspective
Schmidt, Christoph M.; Fertig, Michael - 2021
recent studies analyze the impact of measures of employment promotion for the case of Germany, no comparable study exists on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321250