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Beschäftigung und Arbeitslosigkeit aelterer Arbeitnehmer, Eine mikrooekonometrische Evaluation der Arbeitslosengeldreform von 1997

Mueller, Eva; Wilke, Ralf A.; Zahn, Philipp - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 227 (2007) 1, pp. 65-86

In 1997, the German government enacted a reform of the unemployment insurance system which lead to a reduction of the maximum entitlement length for unemployment benefits of the older unemployment in the subsequent years. This paper analyses the effects of this reform on the risk of unemployment...

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Short- and Long-term Ex-Post Effects of Unemployment Insurance Sanctions

Hofmann, Barbara - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 232 (2012) 1, pp. 31-60

Unemployment insurance (UI) benefit sanctions in form of benefit reductions are intended to set an incentive to comply with job search requirements and to decrease moral hazard behaviour. However, sanctions might also affect the subsequent employment history. Empirical research on long-term...

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The Effects of Active Labor Market Programs in Germany: An Investigation Using Different Definitions of Non-Treatment

Stephan, Gesine - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 228 (2008) 5+6, pp. 586-611

This paper estimates the effects of several German labor market programs – starting in March 2003 – on the employment outcomes of participants using propensity score matching. The main objective is to analyze how estimated average treatment effects vary with the choice of the classification...

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A Market’s Reward Scheme, Media Attention, and the Transitory Success of Managerial Change

Süssmuth, Bernd; Wagner, Stefan - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 232 (2012) 3, pp. 258-278

Against the background of growing media interest in professional soccer, this paper proposes a moral hazard model with costly state verification to explain how rule changes affecting the reward scheme of team performance impact on the success of managerial change. As has been shown recently...

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Behavioral Effects of Probation Periods: An Analysis of Worker Absenteeism

Riphahn, Regina T.; Thalmaier, Anja - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 221 (2001) 2, pp. 179-201

This is the first study to provide robust empirical foundations to a theoretical literature which so far had to assume behavioral adjustments in response to probation periods. Probation periods typically precede regular employment contracts and are commonly interpreted as a screening device for...

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Unemployment Compensation and Wages: Evidence from the German Hartz Reforms

Arent, Stefan; Nagl, Wolfgang - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 233 (2013) 4, pp. 450-466

Using the introduction of fixed unemployment assistance in Germany in 2005 as a unique natural experiment, we find … and estimate the effect of this structural break. In eastern and western Germany, the relative effect is higher for women …. In western Germany, the relative effect increases with skill level. In eastern Germany, there is no clear skill …

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Comment on: "Unemployment Compensation and Wages: Evidence from the German Hartz Reforms" by Stefan Arent and Wolfgang Nagl

Ludsteck, Johannes; Seth, Stefan - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 234 (2014) 5, pp. 635-644

Arent and Nagl (2013) use the BA Employment panel 1998-2007 to identify effects of the German Hartz reform and find that it caused a considerable reduction of wages. Our replication study suggests that their clear and strong conclusions are based on implausible assumptions regarding the error...

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Employment of Workers with Low Productivity: A Contribution to a Reconstruction of the Welfare State.

Paque, Karl-Heinz - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 219 (1999) 1+2, pp. 194-215

In Germany, the number of low-wage jobs is relatively small. The paper examines why this is so and which institutional …

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Technischer Fortschritt und Produktivitätsveränderungen in der deutschen Versicherungswirtschaft

Mahlberg, Bernhard - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 220 (2000) 5, pp. 565-591

The purpose of this study is to measure changes in efficiency and productivity over time in the German insurance industry. These are important impacts of the liberalization and opening of the German insurance market. With the aid of the Data Envelopment Analysis an efficiency frontier has been...

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Politikversagen als Ursache der deutschen Sozialstaatskrise

Lampert, Heinz - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 225 (2005) 1, pp. 44-59

Arbeitslosigkeit und die Krise des deutschen Sozialstaates ist. Der Verfasser stellt zunächst das Politikversagen in der …

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