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Labour supply effects of a subsidised old-age part-time scheme in Austria
Graf, Nikolaus; Hofer, Helmut; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2009
policy to allow flexible retirement options for the elderly with an aim to increase labour supply. According to our matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269098
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Bridge unemployment in Germany : response in labour supply to an increased early retirement age
Giesecke, Matthias; Kind, Michael - 2013
This study examines an increase in the early retirement age from 60 to 63 for the group of older unemployed men in Germany. As consequence of this policy reform, the time to retirement is increased from the perspective of recently unemployed individuals and therefore serves as a source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009722390
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Optimal use of labor market policies: the role of job search assistance
Wunsch, Conny - 2010
This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is based on a framework, that allows for endogenous choice of benefit types and levels, wage taxes or subsidies, and activation measures such as monitoring and job search assistance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269430
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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/10010271391
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Evaluating an Innovative Redundancy-Retraining Project: The Austrian Steel Foundation
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2001
This paper evaluates an Austrian manpower training program, which is highly innovative in its content and financing – and could therefore serve as a role model for other programs. In the late 1980s privatization and down-sizing of nationalized steel firms have lead to large-scale redundancies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262482
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Labour Market Institutions and Wage Inequality
Koeniger, Winfried; Leonardi, Marco; Nunziata, Luca - 2004
In this paper we investigate the importance of labor market institutions such as unemployment insurance, unions, firing regulation and minimum wages for the evolution of wage inequality across countries. We derive a simple log-linear equation of the wage differential as a function of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262039
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Counseling and Monitoring of Unemployed Workers: Theory and Evidence from a Controlled Social Experiment
van den Berg, Gerard J.; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2001
We investigate the effect of counseling and monitoring on the individual transition rate to employment. We theoretically analyze these policies in a job search model with two search channels and endogenous search effort. In the empirical analysis we use unique administrative and survey data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262580
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Identifying sorting: in theory
Eeckhout, Jan; Kircher, Philipp - 2009
We argue that using wage data alone, it is virtually impossible to identify whether Assortative Matching between worker … and firm types is positive or negative. In standard competitive matching models the wages are determined by the marginal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269035
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Strategic Hiring Behavior in Empirical Matching Functions
Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001
This paper makes two contributions to the empirical matching literature. First, a recent study by Anderson and Burgess … (2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching frame-work, is replicated with a richer and more … accurate data set for Germany. Their results are confirmed and found to be surprisingly robust. Second, the matching framework …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262525
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Matching bias in labor demand estimation
Aguilar, Giovanna; Rendón, Sílvio - 2007
Using a matched firm-worker dataset, we show both theoretically and empirically that positive assortative matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276390