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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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Anmerkungen zur Mindestlohndebatte: Elastizitäten, Strukturparameter und Topfschlagen

Fitzenberger, Bernd - In: ifo Schnelldienst 61 (2008) 11, pp. 21-27

In diesem Beitrag weist Bernd Fitzenberger, Universität Freiburg, auf einige wirtschaftstheoretische Aspekte hin, die seiner Meinung nach in der aktuellen Debatte in Deutschland bisher nicht hinreichend beachtet wurden, und diskutiert relevante empirischen Ansätze. Er kommt zu dem Ergebnis,...

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

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wilke, Ralf A. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemploymentdurations and post-unemployment earnings in West Germany... …

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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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Temporary Overpessimism : Job Loss Expectations Following a Large Negative Employment Shock

Emmler, Julian; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2021

Job loss expectations were widespread among workers in East Germany after reunification with West Germany. Though experiencing a large negative employment shock, East German workers were still overpessimistic immediately after reunification with respect to their job risk. Over time, job loss...

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The Role of Unemployment and Job Change When Estimating the Returns to Migration

Emmler, Julian; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2021

Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, we focus on pre-migration employment dynamics, earnings uncertainty, and job change. Migrants are found to be negatively selected with respect to labor market outcomes, with a large drop in earnings and employment during the last few...

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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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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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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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