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Stimulating Local Public Employment : Do General Grants Work?
Lundqvist, Heléne - 2010
The effectiveness of public funds in increasing public employment has long been a question on public and labor economists' minds. In most federal countries local governments employ large fractions of the working population, meaning that a tool for stimulating local public employment can...
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Sensitivity of Matching-Based Program Evaluations to the Availability of Control Variables
Lechner, Michael - 2011
Based on new, exceptionally informative and large German linked employer-employee administrative data, we investigate the question whether the omission of important control variables in matching estimation leads to biased impact estimates of typical active labour market programs for the...
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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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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration : The Case of Occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011
into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s …
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Dynamic Evaluation of Job Search Assistance
Kastoryano, Stephen - 2011
This paper evaluates a job search assistance program for unemployment insurance recipients. The assignment to the program is dynamic. We provide a discussion on dynamic treatment effects and identification conditions. In the empirical analyses we use administrative data from a unique...
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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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Distributional Consequences of Labor Demand Adjustments to a Downturn : A Model-Based Approach with Application to Germany 2008-09
Bargain, Olivier - 2010
Germany. We take as a starting point a very detailed administrative matched employer-employee dataset to estimate labor demand …
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The German Manufacturing Sector is a Granular Economy
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
Using the approach suggested by Gabaix (Econometrica 2011) this paper demonstrates that idiosyncratic shocks in the largest firms are important for an understanding of aggregate volatility in German manufacturing industries. The implications of this finding for theoretical and empirical research...
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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 …
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Separating Introduction Effects from Selectivity Effects : The Differences in Employment Patterns of Co-Determined Firms
Gralla, Rafael - 2012
This study examines differences in employment growth between firms with and without works councils by separating introduction effects from potential selectivity effects. Using a difference in differences framework, we show that firms with works councils have higher employment growth before...
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