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The secular rise of European unemployment since the 1960s is hard to explain without reference to structural change … sectors, net structural change was driven by accessions from nonparticipation rather than unemployment; contracting sectors …
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The aggregate average unemployment rate in a given country is essentially the result of individual workers' transitions … between the three core labor force states, employment, unemployment, and inactivity. The dynamics of these transitions depend … unemployment rates is more sensitive to cyclical behavior for certain demographic groups, specifically unskilled and young workers …
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Using two data sets derived from German administrative data, including a linked employer-employee data set, we investigate the cyclicality of worker and job flows.The analysis stresses the importance of two-sided labour market heterogeneity in this context, taking into account both observed and...
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Although the cyclical aspects of worker reallocation are investigated in numerous studies, only scarce empirical evidence exists for Germany. Kluve, Schaffner, and Schmidt (2009) emphasize the heterogeneity of cyclical influences for different subgroups of workers, defined by age, gender and...
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, directly from employer to employer as well as indirectly via an unemployment spell. In addition they are more likely to change …
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This paper examines the role of social assistance payments (SAP or Sozialhilfe) in determining levels of life satisfaction in Germany using the SOEP 1995-2004. We find strong evidence that individuals in Germany are negatively influenced by increased SAP payments controlling for income, whether...
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postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities …
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In this paper the relationship between parental unemployment at time of children's labor market entrance on the quality … negative correlation between fathers' unemployment at the time of children's labor market entrance and their children's first … wage, while no significant relation can be found for unemployment or labor market inactivity of mothers. …
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risk of leaving the state unemployment into employment or into early retirement due to exceptional rules. We find a …
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In the case of collective redundancies, employers are forced to regard certain characteristics when deciding who is going to be dismissed. This paper develops a procedure to derive an empirical based weighting scheme between the characteristics relevant for this selection (age, disability,...
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