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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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Works Councils, Quits and Dismissals in Germany
Grund, Christian - 2013
We examine the relationship between works councils and two different types of employment separation: dismissals by the firm and voluntary quits by employees. Based on representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we find a negative relationship between works councils and both kinds...
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Is Job Stability Declining in Germany? Evidences from Count Data Models
Winkelmann, Rainer; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2023
The macro evidence of increased adjustment pressure since the early seventies suggests that job mobility should have increased. Hence, retrospective and spell data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are combined in order to test the hypothesis that job stability for German workers declined...
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Does the Use of Worker Flows Improve the Analysis of Establishment Turnover? Evidence from German Administrative Data
Hethey-Maier, Tanja - 2013
Economists have long been interested in analyzing entries and exits of establishments. In many countries administrative datasets provide an excellent source for detailed analysis on a fine and disaggregate level. However, administrative datasets are not without problems: restructuring and...
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Worker Beliefs About Outside Options
Jäger, Simon; Roth, Christopher; rousssille, nina; … - 2022
Workers wrongly anchor their beliefs about outside options on their current wage. In particular, low-paid workers underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers' beliefs in a representative survey in Germany and comparing them to measures of actual outside...
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What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession?
Burda, Michael C. - 2011
Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment loss. Employers' reticence to hire in the preceding expansion, associated in part with a lack of confidence it would last, contributed to an employment shortfall equivalent to 40...
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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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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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Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality : A Regression-Discontinuity Approach
Caliendo, Marco - 2010
The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit generosity, either in terms of benefit duration or entitlement, has a negative impact on the job...
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The Nature and Extent of Job Separations in Germany : Some New Evidence from SOEP
Haile, Getinet A. - 2009
This paper analyses job separations in Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel spanning from 1984 to 2003. Based on detailed reasons for job separation and different SOEP samples, the paper attempts to establish the nature of job separations in Germany. It brings to light some...
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