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Bridge unemployment in Germany : response in labour supply to an increased early retirement age
Giesecke, Matthias; Kind, Michael - 2013
This study examines an increase in the early retirement age from 60 to 63 for the group of older unemployed men in Germany. As consequence of this policy reform, the time to retirement is increased from the perspective of recently unemployed individuals and therefore serves as a source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009722390
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Late-career unemployment and cognitive abilities
Freise, Diana; Schmitz, Hendrik; Westphal, Matthias - 2022
We study the effect of unemployment on cognitive abilities among individuals aged between 50 and 65 in Europe. To this end, we exploit plant closures and use flexible event-study estimations together with an experimentally elicited measure of fluid intelligence, namely word recall. We find that,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013411839
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Killing them with kindness : negative distributional externalities of increasing UI benefits
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Vorell, Matthias - 2009
Of the many labour market Hartz IV reforms that have been implemented in Germany since 2005, the role of short-term unemployment insurance has not received much attention. In this paper we examine distributional effects of labour earnings and unemployment benefits using simulated increases in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861427
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The impact of short- and long-term participation tax rates on labor supply
Bartels, Charlotte; Pestel, Nico - 2015
Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment. This paper investigates the importance of incentives inherent in the tax-benefit system for the individual decision to take up work. Using German microdata over the period 1993 -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011299149
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Long-term participation tax rates
Bartels, Charlotte - 2013
Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to reduce work incentives for the lowskilled and to increase durations of unemployment. Standard studies measure work incentives based on annual income concepts. This paper analyzes work incentives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221556
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Does job loss make you smoke and gain weight?
Marcus, Jan - 2012
-adjusted semiparametric difference-in-difference matching strategy is robust against selection on observables and time-invariant unobservables …-in-difference estimator. The findings are robust over various matching specifications and different choices of the conditioning variables …. -- Job loss ; smoking ; body weight ; health behavior ; difference-in-difference ; propensity score matching …
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The effect of unemployment on the mental health of spouses : evidence from plant closures in Germany
Marcus, Jan - 2012
-in-difference and matching based on entropy balancing to provide robustness against observable and time-invariant unobservable … ; mental health ; plant closure ; entropy balancing ; matching ; job loss …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629544
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Does parental unemployment affect the quality of their children's first job?
Kleverbeck, Maria; Kind, Michael - 2016
In this paper the relationship between parental unemployment at time of children's labor market entrance on the quality of their children's first job is analyzed. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1991-2012 the quality of the first job in terms of wage,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450984
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Does parental unemployment affect the quality of their children's first job?
Kleverbeck, Maria; Kind, Michael Sebastian - 2015
In this paper the relationship between parental unemployment at time of children’s labor market entrance on the quality of their children’s first job is analyzed. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1991-2012 the quality of the first job in terms of wage,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408401
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Who is bowling alone? : quantile treatment effects of unemployment on social participation
Kunze, Lars; Suppa, Nicolai - 2020
This article examines heterogeneity in the effect of unemployment on social participation. Whereas existing studies on this relationship essentially estimate mean effects, we use quantile regression methods to provide a broader and more complete picture. To account for the potential endogeneity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012176174