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Social spending generosity and income inequality: a dynamic panel approach

Niehues, Judith - 2010

This paper explores if more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if redistributive outcomes are offset by behavioral disincentive effects. To account for the inherent endogeneity of social policies with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System GMM...

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Productivity premia for German manufacturing firms exporting to the Euro-area and beyond: First evidence from robust fixed effects estimations

Verardi, Vincenzo; Wagner, Joachim - 2010

estimates of the productivity premium of German firms exporting to the Euro-zone and beyond, controlling for unobserved time … invariant firm specific effects, and tests for self-selection of more productive firms into exporting beyond the Euro-zone. (3 … share of outliers. Using a clean sample without outliers the estimated productivity premium of firms that export to the Euro-zone …

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Understanding inter-industry wage structures in the euro area

Genre, Véronique; Kohn, Karsten; Momferatou, Daphne - 2009

This paper focuses on the euro area wage structure and its potential determinants from a sectoral viewpoint. Merging information from the OECD Structural Analysis database with data from the EU Labour Force Survey, we construct a cross-country panel of 22 industries in 8 euro area countries for...

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Macroeconomic volatilities and the labor market: First results from the euro experiment

Merkl, Christian; Schmitz, Tom - 2010

This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and output volatility. The eurozone …

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Market Externalities of Large Unemployment Insurance Extension Programs

Lalive, Rafael; Landais, Camille; Zweimüller, Josef - 2013

This paper offers quasi experimental evidence of the existence of spillover effects of UI extensions using a unique program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non-eligible unemployed in treated regions, and a...

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Evaluating the dynamic employment effects of training programs in East Germany using conditional difference-in-differences

Bergemann, Annette; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Speckesser, Stefan - 2005

This study analyzes the employment effects of training in East Germany. We propose and apply an extension of the widely used conditional difference-in-differences evaluation method. Focusing on transition rates between nonemployment and employment we take into account that employment is a state...

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The targeted negative income tax (TNIT) in Germany: evidence from a quasi experiment

Spermann, Alexander; Strotmann, Harald - 2006

We report empirical evidence from the first field experiments to be conducted in Germany with program and control groups between 1999 and 2002. The evaluated program called Targeted Negative Income Tax (TNIT) is a time-restricted employee subsidy for means-tested welfare recipients. We focus on...

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

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Speckesser, Stefan - 2005

Based on unique administrative data, which has only recently become available, this paper estimates the employment effects of the most important type of public sector sponsored training in Germany, namely the provision of specific professional skills and techniques (SPST). Using the inflows into...

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Get training or wait? Long-run employment effects of training programs for the unemployed in West Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; Völter, Robert - 2006

Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employment effects and often it is not possible to assess whether positive long-run effects exist. Based on unique administrative data, this paper estimates the long-run differential employment effects of...

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Does the order and timing of active labor market programs matter?

Lechner, Michael; Wiehler, Stephan - 2007

This paper extends the traditional focus of active labor market policy evaluation from a static comparison of participation in a program versus nonparticipation (or participation in another program) to the evaluation of the effects of program sequences, i.e. multiple participation or timing of...

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