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Network dependency in migration flows : a space-time analysis for Germany since re-unification

Mitze, Timo - 2010

The contribution of this paper is to analyse the role of network interdependencies in a dynamic panel data model for German internal migration flows since re-unification. So far, a capacious account of spatial patterns in German migration data is still missing in the empirical literature. In the...

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Testing the neoclassical migration model : overall and age-group specific results for German regions

Mitze, Timo; Reinkowski, Janina - 2010

This paper tests the empirical validity of the neoclassical migration model in predicting German internal migration flows. We estimate static and dynamic migration functions for 97 Spatial Planning Regions between 1996 and 2006 using key labor market signals including income and unemployment...

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Continuous training, job satisfaction and gender : an empirical analysis using German panel data

Burgard, Claudia; Görlitz, Katja - 2011

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper analyzes the relationship between training and job satisfaction focusing in particular on gender differences. Controlling for a variety of socio-demographic, job and firm characteristics, we find a difference between males and...

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The pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns to voucher-financed training

Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2015

This paper analyzes the returns to training that was co-financed by the German voucher program "Bildungsprämie". The estimation strategy compares outcomes of participants in voucher training with voucher recipients who intended to participate in training, but did not do so because of a random...

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Returns to formal, non-formal and informal training for workers at risk of automation

Zeyer-Gliozzo, Birgit - 2020

The automation of work tasks due to technological change increases the pressure on employees whose workplaces consist largely of such activities. Further training is an important way of adapting skills and enabling the performance of tasks that cannot be automated and are required in modern...

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Making intense skills training work at scale : evidence on business and labor market outcomes in Tanzania

Calderone, Margherita; Fiala, Nathan; Melyoki, Lemayon … - 2022

Improving youth labor market outcomes is a primary concern for countries around the world. We conduct a randomized controlled trial in Tanzania on an intense gender-sensitive skills training program that worked with over 53,000 youth in the region. After two years, we find the program increased...

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Technological change and returns to training

Klauser, Roman; Tamm, Marcus - 2023

Do returns to training differ if training is accompanied by technological innovations at the workplace? We analyze this potential heterogeneity of returns based on panel data from Germany that provide a unique measure for individuals’ adoption of new technology at the workplace. In the...

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The dynamic and heterogeneous effects of retirement on cognitive decline

Schmitz, Hendrik; Westphal, Matthias - 2021

We study effects of retirement on cognitive abilities (up to ten years after retirement) using data from 21 countries in Continental Europe, England, and the US, and exploiting early-retirement thresholds for identification. For this purpose, combines event-study estimations with the marginal...

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Marginal college wage premiums under selection into employment

Westphal, Matthias; Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2020

In this paper, we identify female long-term wage returns to college education using the educational expansion between 1960–1990 in West Germany as exogenous variation for college enrollment. We estimate marginal treatment effects to learn about the underlying behavioral structure of women who...

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How do non-monetary performance incentives for physicians affect the quality of medical care? : a laboratory experiment ; conference paper

Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja; Krieger, Miriam - 2014

improve the quality of medical care. Evidence on the effect of non-monetary feedback incentives, predominantly in the form of …: subjects take on the role of physicians and make treatment decisions for patients, receiving feedback on the quality of their … treatment. The subjects decisions result in payments to real patients. By giving either private or public feedback we are able …

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