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How weather-proof is the construction sector? : empirical evidence from Germany

Arntz, Melanie (contributor); Wilke, Ralf A. (contributor) - 2008

With the purpose to reduce winter unemployment and to promote all-season employment in the constructions sector, Germany maintains an extensive bad weather allowance system. Since the mid 1990s, these regulations have been subject to several reforms that resemble the range of approaches for...

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Beschäftigung und Arbeitslosigkeit älterer Arbeitnehmer : eine mikroökonometrische Evaluation der Arbeitslosengeldreform von 1997

Brüning, Eva M. (contributor); Wilke, Ralf A. (contributor) - 2006

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Private job placement services : a microeconometric evaluation for Germany

Winterhager, Henrik (contributor) - 2006

In recent years, coinciding with the discussion led in many OECD countries, Germany has started to contract out placement services for the unemployed to private agencies. Whereas in the Netherlands and Australia the whole system of employment services was reorganized at once, making an...

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Reforming home care provision in Germany : evidence from a social experiment

Arntz, Melanie (contributor); … - 2008

In a long-run social experiment, personal budgets have been tested as an alternative to the home care programs of the German long-term care insurance (LTCI). Due to extending the coverage beyond LTCI approved services and agencies, personal budgets may improve care outcomes compared to the...

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Choosing from the reform menu card : individual determinants of labour market policy preferences

Heinemann, Friedrich (contributor); … - 2009

This contribution empirically explores the drivers of labour market reform acceptance for the individual level in … in the former German Democratic Republic drive individual reform preferences. Our empirical results support this notion … narrow scope of self-interest strongly shape individual reform preferences. …

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Welfare reform and lone parents in the UK

Gregg, Paul; Harkness, Susan; Smith, Sarah - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 119 (2009), pp. 38-65

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Unemployment duration in Germany : individual and regional determinants of local job finding, migration and subsidized employment

Arntz, Melanie (contributor); Wilke, Ralf A. (contributor) - 2006

Recent labor market reforms in Germany aim, among other things, at reducing unemployment by restricting passive unemployment measures, emphasizing local labor market policies and re-structuring public employment services. This paper uses extensive individual administrative and regional aggregate...

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The retrenchment hypothesis and the extension of the franchise in England and Wales

Aidt, Toke; Daunton, Martin J.; Dutta, Jayasri - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 120 (2010) 547, pp. 990-1020

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Beschäftigung und Arbeitslosigkeit älterer Arbeitnehmer : eine mikroökonometrische Evaluation der Arbeitslosengeldreform von 1997

Brüning, Eva M. (contributor); Wilke, Ralf A. (contributor) - 2006 - Rev. version

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. The paper analyses the effects of this reform on the risk of … the unemployment benefits scheme. We show that the reform effectively reduced the amount of early retirement at the …

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Distributional and behavioural effects of the German labour market reform

Clauss, Markus (contributor); Schnabel, Reinhold (contributor) - 2008

We estimate the effects of the reform of the German Unemployment Insurance that replaced the wage related Unemployment … impact of the reform. …

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