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The Threat Effect of Participation in Active Labor Market Programs on Job Search Behavior of Migrants in Germany

Bergemann, Annette - 2011

Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects may differ according to ethnic origin. We apply a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job search behavioral outcomes, such as the reservation wage or...

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The IZA Evaluation Dataset : Towards Evidence-Based Labor Policy-Making

Caliendo, Marco - 2011

to overcome such limitations for Germany by complementing administrative data from the Federal Employment Agency with … Germany from 2001 to 2008 and contains around 920,000 individuals. The complementary survey covers a panel of more than 17 …

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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 …

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What Drives the Demand for Temporary Agency Workers?

Jahn, Elke J. - 2010

employment. Using monthly data for Germany covering the period 1973-2008, we show that the continuous liberalization of this …

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Google Econometrics and Unemployment Forecasting

Askitas, Nikos - 2012

The current economic crisis requires fast information to predict economic behavior early, which is difficult at times of structural changes. This paper suggests an innovative new method of using data on internet activity for that purpose. It demonstrates strong correlations between keyword...

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Does the Sector Experience Affect the Pay Gap for Temporary Agency Workers?

Jahn, Elke J. - 2011

temp wage gap and post-temp earnings in Germany. Using a two-stage selection-corrected method in a panel data framework, we …

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Short-Time Work : The German Answer to the Great Recession

Brenke, Karl - 2011

Short-time work was the "German answer" to the economic crisis. The number of short-time workers strongly increased in the recession and peaked at more than 1.5 million. Without the extensive use of short-time work, unemployment would have risen by approximately twice as much as it actually did....

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Migration and Imperfect Labor Markets : Theory and Cross-Country Evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK

Brücker, Herbert - 2012

We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment … rate in Germany and Denmark, while the wage effects are larger in the UK. Moreover, the elasticity of substitution between …

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Identifying the Substitution Effect of Temporary Agency Employment

Jahn, Elke J. - 2012

This paper fills a gap in the literature by investigating whether temporary agency employment substitutes regular employment. To take into account the interaction between the two employment forms, we identify a SVAR model with correlated innovations by volatility regimes. We show that a positive...

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Is There Monopsonistic Discrimination Against Immigrants? First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Hirsch, Boris - 2012

dynamic monopsony framework. Applying duration models to a large administrative employer-employee data set for Germany, we …

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