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A Conceptual Framework for the Evaluation of Comprehensive Labor Market Policy Reforms in Germany

Fertig, Michael; Kluve, Jochen - 2004

Over the last year the German government has introduced a comprehensive set of labor market policy reforms, the so-called Hartz reforms, which aim at a significant reduction of unemployment. To this end, (a) many of the existing instruments of active labor market policy are modified...

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Who's to Blame? The Determinants of German Students' Achievement in the PISA 2000 Study

Fertig, Michael - 2003

The publication of the OECD report on the PISA 2000 study induced a public outcry in Germany. On average, German … Germany to the survey. The results of several quantile regression analyses demonstrate that many popular explanations, like …

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Shot Across the Bow, Stigma or Selection? : The Effect of Repeating a Class on Educational Attainment

Fertig, Michael - 2004

The German practice of compelling weak students to repeat a class has come under heavy criticism recently. Many observers fear that this practice is, at best, useless or even counterproductive. However, little is known so far on the consequences of having to repeat a class, as compared to be...

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The Effect of Age at School Entry on Educational Attainment in Germany

Fertig, Michael; Kluve, Jochen - 2005

the effect of age at school entry on educational attainment for West and East Germany. Empirical results from linear …

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Discretionary Measures of Active Labor Market Policy: The German Employment Promotion Reform in Perspective

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000

recent studies analyze the impact of measures of employment promotion for the case of Germany, no comparable study exists on …

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Aggregate-Level Migration Studies as a Tool for Forecasting Future Migration Streams

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000

Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc specifications to historical data, and to...

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First- and Second-Generation Migrants in Germany -

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2001

This paper provides a snapshot of the stock of immigrants in Germany using the 1995 wave of the Microzensus with a … moderate actual public transfer payment dependence of migrants to Germany with the perception of migrants dependence on public …

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A Portrait of Child Poverty in Germany

Corak, Miles; Fertig, Michael; Tamm, Marcus - 2005

This paper offers a descriptive portrait of income poverty among children in Germany between the early 1980s and 2001 … focuses upon comparisons between East and West Germany, by family structure, and citizenship status. Child poverty rates have … the incidence of child poverty and its dynamics between East and West Germany. …

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Active Labor Market Policy in Germany - Is There a Successful Policy Strategy?

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Schneider, Hilmar - 2002

Each year Germany and many other developed economies spend tens of billions of Euros on active measures of employment … offices in Germany. To this end, we analyze ALMP in Germany in a spatially augmented regression framework. Our results suggest …

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Evaluating Immigration Policy: Potentials and Limitations

Fertig, Michael - 2002

Based on the ideas developed in the literature on the evaluation of active labor market policy, this paper provides a framework for the evaluation of key elements of immigration policy. To this end, the fundamental ingredients of evaluating policy interventions are explained and the specific...

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