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Bergemann, Annette - 2017

This paper analyzes the impact of job creation schemes (JCSs) on job search outcomes in the context of the turbulent East German labor market in the aftermath of the German reunification. High job destruction characterized the economic environment. JCSs were heavily used in order to cushion this...

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Workers, Firms, or Institutions : What Determines Job Duration for Male Employees in Germany?

Boockmann, Bernhard; Steffes, Susanne - 2009

We examine job durations of German workers using linked employer-employee data. Our results indicate that exit rates are strongly influenced by firm characteristics. The effects of some of these characteristics, however, are limited to particular job positions or skill groups. There is clear...

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Seniority and Job Stability : A Quantile Regression Approach Using Matched Employer-Employee Data

Boockmann, Bernhard; Steffes, Susanne - 2008

Job mobility and employment durations can be explained by different theoretical approaches, such as job matching or human capital theory or dual labor market approaches. These models may, however, apply to different degrees at different durations in the employment spell. Standard empirical...

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Reform of Unemployment Compensation in Germany : A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis Using Register Data

Lee, Sokbae; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2008

duration of unemployment. Empirical results for the reform of the unemployment compensation system in Germany during the 1980s … unemployment is not directly observed. For this reason we bound the reform effect on unemployment duration over different … parametric model assumptions. We identify a systematic increase in unemployment duration in response to the reform in samples …

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Explaining the Employability Gap of Short-Term and Long-Term Unemployed Persons

Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2008

This paper analyzes the determinants of employability differences between short-term and long-term unemployed persons. Knowing these differences could help to address active labor market policy programs more adequately to the needs of the job-seekers in order to increase employment integration....

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The Effects of Short-Term Training Measures on the Individual Unemployment Duration in West Germany

Hujer, Reinhard - 2008

Short-term training measures are the most important intervention of German active labor market policy in terms of persons promoted. However, evidence on the impacts of programs is missing. This study analyzes the effects of these programs on the individual unemployment duration in West Germany....

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Unemployment and Labor Reallocation in Europe

Hogrefe, Jan - 2014

We ask whether sectoral shocks and the subsequent labor reallocation are responsible for unemployment within selected European economies. Our measure of sectoral labor reallocation is adjusted for aggregate influences and the remaining variation is linked to unemployment in country specific...

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The Geographical Mobility of Unemployed Workers

Arntz, Melanie - 2008

Using a competing-risk framework of exiting unemployment to jobs in a local or a distant labor market area, this paper investigates whether unemployed individuals in West Germany choose search strategies that favor migrating out of declining regions. Moreover, the paper investigates how such...

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Youth Unemployment After Apprenticeship Training and Individual, Occupation and Training Employer Characteristics

Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2014

This paper analyses the risk of unemployment, unemployment duration and the risk of long-term unemployment immediately after apprenticeship graduation. Unemployed apprenticeship graduates constitute a large share of unemployed youth in Germany but unemployment incidence within this group is...

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Fixed Term Contracts as Sorting Mechanisms : Evidence from Job Durations in West Germany

Boockmann, Bernhard - 2008

We estimate the effect of initial episodes under fixed term contracts (FTCs) on job duration in the further course of the employment spell, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) from 1985 to 2002. Using a statistical matching approach, we find that job exit rates are initially...

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