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

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); … - 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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Do spillovers stimulate incremental or drastic product innovations? : Hypotheses and evidence from German establishment data

Jirjahn, Uwe (contributor); Kraft, Kornelius (contributor) - 2006

We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive impact on incremental innovations. This impact is largely independent of the participation in R&D cooperations. Spillovers exert no such independent influence on drastic...

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Local governments in the wake of demographic change : efficiency and economies of scale in German municipalities

Geys, Benny (contributor); Heinemann, Friedrich (contributor) - 2007

German municipalities are expected to suffer from (often significant) population losses in the upcoming decades. We assess these local governments’ vulnerability to the fiscal consequences of this demographic decline through two means (using a sample of 1021 municipalities in the state of...

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New insights on unemployment duration and post unemployment earnings in Germany : censored box-cox quantile regression at work

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); … - 2007

In light of nonstationary search theory (van den Berg, 1990), this paper estimates the effects of benefit entitlement periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post{unemployment earnings in West Germany. For the unemployment duration, we estimate censored...

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The heterogeneous effects of training incidence and duration on labor market transitions

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; Paul, Marie - 2010

Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen sind ein wichtiger Bestandteil der Aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland und in vielen … Beschäftigungssuche ab, denn in Deutschland können dem Arbeitslosen zu jedem Zeitpunkt Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen zugewiesen werden …. Wir evaluieren ein wichtiges Programm der beruflichen Weiterbildung in Deutschland (Förderung der beruflichen …

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Voluntary giving and economic growth : time series evidence for the US

Heinemann, Friedrich - 2010

This study analyzes the sensitivity of US giving to both business cycle fluctuations and trend growth. With tax revenues as a point of reference, US giving constitutes a relatively stable source of revenue. Total giving is characterized by a business cycle volatility which is comparable to the...

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Get training or wait? : long-run employment effects of training programs for the unemploymed in West Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); … - 2007

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The Phillips curve and NAIRU revisited : new estimates for Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); … - 2007

This paper provides new estimates of a timevarying NAIRU for Germany taking account of the structural break caused by German unification based on the Kalman Filter and on a partially linear model as two alternatives. Estimating a standard Phillips curve, the sum of coefficients associated with...

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Gesetzliche Mitbestimmung und Kapitalrendite

Kraft, Kornelius; Radic, Marija - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 226 (2006) 5, pp. 588-604

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Rising wage inequality, the decline of collective bargaining, and the gender wage gap

Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2010

This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that wage inequality is rising strongly – driven not only by...

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