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On the inverse relationship between unemployment and absenteeism: evidence from natural experiments and worker heterogeneity

Fahr, René; Frick, Bernd - 2007

Although an inverse relationship between sickness absence and unemployment has been documented in a number of studies … whether this empirical regularity is due to changes in the individual costs of absence when unemployment increases (incentive … the unemployment benefit entitlement system with monthly absence data for East and West Germany for the years 1991 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268138

Ethnicity, job search and labor market reintegration of the unemployed

Constant, Amelie F.; Kahanec, Martin; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2009

This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269464

Another economic miracle? The German labor market and the great recession

Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

The mild response of the German labor market to the worst global recession in post-war history appears as an economic miracle. In response to the crisis, Germany has shown to be a strong case of internal flexibility. We argue that important factors that have contributed to this development...

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On the Inverse Relationship betweenUnemployment and Absenteeism: Evidence fromNatural Experiments and Worker Heterogeneity

Fahr, René; Frick, Bernd - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

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Endogenous exit bias in training programs for unemployed workers

Kluve, Jochen; Rinne, Ulf; Uhlendorff, Arne; Zhao, Zhong - 2012

This paper assesses the importance of reverse causality when evaluating the impact of training duration for unemployed workers. We use planned duration as an instrumental variable for actual duration. Our results suggest that the potential endogeneity of exits seems to be only relevant in the...

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Is Germany the North Star of labor market policy?

Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013

Germany's recovery from an unemployment disease and its resilience to the Great Recession is remarkable. Its success …

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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...

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Disaggregate Matching Functions

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001

This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....

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Employment Status, Endogenous Regional Mobility, and Spatial Dependencies in Labor Markets

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2002

autocorrelation in regional hires, unemployment and vacancy levels, we examine the patterns of new matches in regions, identify … variation in unemployment rates, combined with little inter-regional migration. We find evidence in favor of labor market …

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Reservation wages of first and second generation migrants

Constant, Amelie F.; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2010

survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that …

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