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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
migrants with a Turkish origin or Central and Eastern European (including Russian) background. Job search theory is used to …
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Learning About Job Search : A Field Experiment with Job Seekers in Germany
Altmann, Steffen - 2015
We conduct a large-scale field experiment in the German labor market to investigate how information provision affects job seekers' employment prospects and labor market outcomes. Individuals assigned to the treatment group of our experiment received a brochure that informed them about job search...
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The Effect of Active Labor Market Programs on Not-Yet Treated Unemployed Individuals
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Bergemann, Annette; Caliendo, Marco - 2021
-search behavioral outcomes, like the reservation wage, to each other, among newly unemployed workers. Job search theory is used to … propensity score matching. We apply the method to the German ALMP system, using a novel data set including self …
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What Hides Behind the German Labor Market Miracle? Unemployment Insurance Reforms and Labor Market Dynamics
Hartung, Benjamin - 2018
A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor market dynamics. We revisit this old question studying the German Hartz reforms. On average, lower separation rates explain 76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact...
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Can Training Programs or Rather Wage Subsidies Bring the Unemployed Back to Work? A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation for Germany
Neubäumer, Renate - 2010
administrative data set from Germany and statistical matching techniques. Our treatment groups consist of unemployed persons taking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144940
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Did the Hartz Reforms Speed-Up Job Creation? A Macro-Evaluation Using Empirical Matching Functions
Fahr, Rene - 2006
, in speeding up the matching process between unemployed and vacant jobs. The analysis is conceptually rooted in the flow …-based view underlying the reforms, estimating the structural features of the matching process. The results indicate that the … reforms indeed had an impact in making the labor market more dynamic and accelerating the matching process …
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They are Even Larger! More (on) Puzzling Labor Market Volatilities
Gartner, Hermann - 2009
This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, labor market tightness, and job vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor...
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Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality : A Regression-Discontinuity Approach
Caliendo, Marco - 2010
individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit generosity, either in terms of benefit duration or … and receive lower wages compared to their counterparts with extended benefit duration …
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Evidence on Job Search Models from a Survey of Unemployed Workers in Germany
DellaVigna, Stefano - 2020
The job finding rate of Unemployment Insurance (UI) recipients declines in the initial months of unemployment and then exhibits a spike at the benefit exhaustion point. A range of theoretical explanations have been proposed, but those are hard to disentangle using data on job finding alone. To...
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Labor Market Effects of Immigration : Evidence from Neighborhood Data
Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011
postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities …
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