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Google Econometrics and Unemployment Forecasting

Askitas, Nikos - 2012

. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword searches and unemployment rates using monthly German data and …

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Economic Preferences and Attitudes of the Unemployed : Are Natives and Second Generation Migrants Alike?

Constant, Amelie F. - 2010

natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between … employment probability about two months after unemployment entry. We observe a significantly lower employment probability for …

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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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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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Immigration Policy, Assimilation of Immigrants and Natives' Sentiments Towards Immigrants : Evidence from 12 Oecd-Countries

Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Bauer, Thomas K.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2021

As in the U.S. and Canada, migration is a controversial issue in Europe. This paper explores the possibility that immigration policy may affect the labor market assimilation of immigrants and hence natives' sentiments towards immigrants. It first reviews the assimilation literature in economics...

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Overtime Work and Overtime Compensation in Germany

Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Bauer, Thomas K. - 2021

Sharing the available stock of work more fairly is a popular concern in the public policy debate. One proposal is to reduce overtime work in order to allow the employment of more people. This paper suggests that such a concept faces major problems. Using Germany as a case study, it is shown that...

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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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