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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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The Heterogeneous Effects of Training Incidence and Duration on Labor Market Transitions
Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2010
and training participation and we use Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques for estimation. We develop a … the posterior distributions of different treatment effects of interest. Our estimation results imply positive effects of … start. The effects are higher for women than for men and higher in West Germany than in East Germany. Further, we find that …
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Social Networks, Job Search Methods and Reservation Wages : Evidence for Germany
Caliendo, Marco - 2010
novel data set of unemployed individuals in Germany containing extensive information on job search behavior and direct …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117001
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Labor Market Effects of Immigration : Evidence from Neighborhood Data
Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011
This paper combines individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with economic and demographic postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities of high- and low-skilled natives. Employing an...
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Job Loss Fears and (Extremist) Party Identification : First Evidence from Panel Data
Geishecker, Ingo - 2012
There is a large body of literature analyzing the relationship between objective economic conditions and voting behavior, but there is very little evidence of how perceived economic insecurity impacts on political preferences. Using seventeen years of household panel data from the German...
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Unemployment Persistence : How Important are Non-Cognitive Skills?
Blázquez, Maite - 2012
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The Role of Sickness in the Evaluation of Job Search Assistance and Sanctions
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2016
Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante...
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Evidence on Job Search Models from a Survey of Unemployed Workers in Germany
DellaVigna, Stefano - 2020
-message-based survey of unemployed workers in Germany. We surveyed 6,800 UI recipients twice a week for 4 months about their job search …
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Did the Hartz Reforms Speed-Up Job Creation? A Macro-Evaluation Using Empirical Matching Functions
Fahr, Rene - 2006
Starting in January 2003, Germany implemented the first two so-called Hartz reforms, followed by the third and fourth …
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