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Does the Glass Ceiling Exist? A Cross-National Perspective on

Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John S.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2003

We compare male and female upward labor income mobility in Germany and the United States using the GSOEP-PSID Cross …

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Immigrants and Unemployment in the European Community: From the Eyes of Natives

Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 1999

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the …-born workers? assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of … immigrants and unemployment among native-born workers. …

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Gender Differences in German Upward Income Mobility

Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John S.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002

We examine the upward labor income mobility of men and women in Germany using the GSOEP Cross National Equivalent File …. Women have greater overall income mobility. However, utilizing a measure of upward income mobility and calculating the … posterior probability that men?s upward income mobility is greater than women?s, we find that men have overall greater upward …

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What are Migration Networks?

Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2000

Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant?s country in the host region. Using Mexican migration data, we analyze the effects of the usual network variable and two additional origin-village-specific variables on migrants? location choice.

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What explains the gender earnings gap in self-employment? A decomposition analysis with German data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2012

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, more than a quarter of the difference in monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to...

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Macroeconometric Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies in Germany - A Dynamic Panel Approach Using Regional Data

Zeiss, Christopher; Caliendo, Marco; Blien, Uwe; Hujer, … - 2002

Most evaluation studies of active labour market policies (ALMP) focus on the microeconometric evaluation approach using individual data. However, as the microeconometric approach usually ignores impacts on the non-participants, it should be seen as a first step to a complete evaluation which has...

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Benefit duration, unemployment duration and job match quality: a regression-discontinuity approach

Caliendo, Marco; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2009

The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed … entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite … the disincentive effect of UI on unemployment duration, UI benefit generosity may also increase job match quality by …

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Locus of control and job search strategies

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2010

Standard job search theory assumes that unemployed individuals have perfect information about the effect of their search effort on the job offer arrival rate. In this paper, we present an alternative model which assumes instead that each individual has a subjective belief about the impact of his...

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New evidence on the effects of job creation schemes in Germany : a matching approach with threefold heterogeneity

Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2003

This paper evaluates the effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany. Since previous empirical studies of these measures have been based on relatively small datasets and focussed on East Germany, this is the first study which allows to draw policy-relevant...

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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 - 2008

Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects are hard to identify without model assumptions. We develop a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job-search behavioral outcomes, like the reservation wage,...

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