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Reforming German labor market institutions: a dual path to flexibility

Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - 2009

Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather …

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Before and after the Hartz reforms: the performance of active labour market policy in Germany

Jacobi, Lena; Kluve, Jochen - 2006

Having faced high unemployment rates for more than a decade, the German government implemented a comprehensive set of labour market reforms during the period 2003-2005. This paper describes the economic and institutional context of the German labour market before and after these so-called Hartz...

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Employment effects of the provision of specific professional skills and techniques in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Speckesser, Stefan - 2005

effects of the most important type of public sector sponsored training in Germany, namely the provision of specific … Germany compared to East Germany. …

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Are training programs more effective when unemployment is high?

Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - 2006

We estimate short, medium, and long-run individual labor market effects of training programs for unemployed by following program participation on a monthly basis over a ten-year period. Since analyzing the effectiveness of training over such a long period is impossible with experimental data, we...

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Start-ups by the unemployed: characteristics, survival and direct employment effects

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2007

,100 start-ups founded by unemployed persons in Germany. Individuals were subsidized under two different schemes, and we are able …

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Marginal employment': stepping stone or dead end? Evaluating the German experience

Freier, Ronny; Steiner, Viktor - 2007

with a small negative cumulative earnings effect for older workers in west Germany. …

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Which program for whom? Evidence on the comparative effectiveness of public sponsored training programs in Germany

Biewen, Martin; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; … - 2007

We use a new and exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to evaluate the employment effects of a variety … dynamic selection into programs. Our results suggest that in West Germany both short-term and medium-term programs show … exceptions, we find little evidence for significant positive treatment effects in East Germany. There is some evidence that the …

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Turning unemployment into self-employment: Effectiveness and efficiency of two start-up programmes

Baumgartner, Hans J.; Caliendo, Marco - 2007

recent years. If effective, this would not only reduce Germany's persistently high unemployment rate, but also increase its … the unemployed into self-employment may prove to be among the most effective, both in Germany and elsewhere. …

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Employment effects of welfare reforms: evidence from a dynamic structural life-cycle model

Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2008

place in Germany, towards a more Anglo-American system in which a large proportion of transfers are paid to the working poor. …

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Déjà vu? Short-term training in Germany 1980 - 1992 and 2000 - 2003

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Orlyanskaya, Olga; Osikominu, Aderonke - 2008

Short-term training has recently become the largest active labor market program in Germany regarding the number of … paper estimates the effects of short-term training programs in West Germany starting in the time period 1980 to 1992 and …

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