Similar Search Results

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129936

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131930

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134980

Wage Cyclicality Under Different Regimes of Industrial Relations

Gartner, Hermann - 2010

Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137244

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117001

Are the Self-Employed Really Jacks-of-All-Trades? Testing the Assumptions and Implications of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J. - 2011

Using a large representative German data set and various concepts of self-employment, this paper tests the "jack-of-all-trades" view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its theoretical assumptions we find that self-employed individuals perform more tasks and that their work...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117831

Let's Take Bargaining Models Seriously : The Decline in Union Power in Germany, 1992-2009

Hirsch, Boris - 2011

results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121755

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....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123586

Lingering Illness or Sudden Death? Pre-Exit Employment Developments in German Establishments

Fackler, Daniel - 2012

Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear "shadow of death" effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096121

What Explains the Gender Earnings Gap in Self-Employment? A Decomposition Analysis with German Data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J. - 2012

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108229