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The Role of Within-Occupation Task Changes in Wage Development

Bachmann, Ronald; Demir, Gökay; Green, Colin P.; … - 2022

We examine how changes in task content over time condition occupational wage development. Using survey data from Germany, we document substantial heterogeneity in within-occupational changes in task content. Combining this evidence with administrative data on individual employment outcomes over...

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Self-Employment Dynamics, State Dependence and Cross-Mobility Patterns

Caliendo, Marco; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2008

This paper analyzes the mobility between self-employment, wage employment and non-employment. Using data for men in West Germany, we find strong true state dependence in all three states. Moreover, compared to wage employment, non-employment increases the probability of self-employment...

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Job Displacement and First Birth over the Business Cycle

Hofmann, Barbara; Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2017

This paper investigates the impact of job displacement on women's first birth rates, and the variation in this effect over the business cycle. We used mass layoffs to estimate the causal effects of involuntary job loss on fertility in the short and medium term, up to five years after...

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Under Heavy Pressure: Intense Monitoring and Accumulation of Sanctions for Young Welfare Recipients in Germany

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - 2017

With the introduction of a new welfare benefit system in 2005, Germany implemented quite strict benefit sanctions for welfare recipients aged younger than 25 years. For all types of non-compliance except for missing appointments, their basic cash benefit is withdrawn for three months. A second...

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Self-employment dynamics, state dependence and cross-mobility patterns

Caliendo, Marco; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2008

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Social networks, job search methods and reservation wages: Evidence for Germany

Caliendo, Marco; Schmidl, Ricarda; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2010

In this paper we analyze the relationship between social networks and the job search behavior of unemployed individuals. It is believed that networks convey useful information in the job search process such that individuals with larger networks should experience a higher productivity of informal...

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The Role of Sickness in the Evaluation of Job Search Assistance and Sanctions

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … sanctions on the unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We … relative attractiveness of vacancy referrals increases over the time spent in unemployment. Overall, around 9% of sickness …

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Predicting Re-Employment: Machine Learning versus Assessments by Unemployed Workers and by Their Caseworkers

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Kunaschk, Max; Lang, Julia; … - 2023

policy mix of unemployment insurance agencies. We analyze unique data on three sources of information on the probability of … re-employment within 6 months (RE6), for the same individuals sampled from the inflow into unemployment. First, they were …

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Structural Empirical Analysis of Vacancy Referrals with Imperfect Monitoring and the Strategic Use of Sickness Absence

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Foerster, Hanno; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2023

care system on unemployment durations. We estimate that for around 25% of unemployed workers, removing the channel that … enables strategic sick reporting reduces the mean unemployment duration by 4 days. …

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Mandatory Integration Agreements for Unemployed Job Seekers: A Randomized Controlled Field Experiment in Germany

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Hofmann, Barbara; Stephan, Gesine - 2021

In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment …

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