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Unemployment Durations in West-Germany Before and After the Reform of the Unemployment Compensation System During the 1980s
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2004
This paper empirically analyzes the distribution of unemployment durations in West- Germany before and after the … West Germany. We introduce two proxies for unemployment, since the data do not involve a precise economic definition of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297359
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Unemployment Duration and the Length of Entitlement Periods for Unemployment Benefits: Do the IAB Employment Subsample and the German Socio-Economic Panel Yield the Same Results?
Biewen, Martin; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2005
We compare information on the length of unemployment spells contained in the IAB employment subsample (IABS) and in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Due to the lack of information on registered unemployment in the IABS, we use two proxies of unemployment in the IABS as introduced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297415
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Beschäftigung und Arbeitslosigkeit älterer Arbeitnehmer: Eine mikroökonometrische Evaluation der Arbeitslosengeldreform von 1997
Zahn, Philipp; Wilke, Ralf A.; Müller, Eva - 2006
m Jahr 1997 wurden die maximalen Anspruchsdauern auf Arbeitslosengeld für ältere Beschäftigte verkürzt. In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden die Auswirkungen dieser Reform auf Übergänge von Beschäftigung in Arbeitslosigkeit und Verweildauern in Arbeitslosigkeit der 54-56jährigen untersucht....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298017
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Distributional and Behavioural Effects of the German Labour Market Reform
Clauss, Markus; Schnabel, Reinhold - 2008
We estimate the effects of the reform of the German Unemployment Insurance that replaced the wage related Unemployment Assistance with an income maintenance program and stronger means testing. We model the tax-benefit system and use the Socio-Economic Panel. We estimate a discrete labour supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297991
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Employment Effects of the Provision of Specific Professional Skills and Techniques in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Speckesser, Stefan - 2005
effects of the most important type of public sector sponsored training in Germany, namely the provision of specific … Germany compared to East Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297489
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Employment Effects of Publicly Financed Training Programs The East German Experience
Kraus, Florian; Puhani, Patrick A.; Steiner, Viktor - 1997
We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297569
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Reforming Social Welfare as We Know It? A Microsimulation Study for Germany
Jacobebbinghaus, Peter; Steiner, Viktor - 2003
-specified time limits, are viewed as one important reason for the persistently high level of unemployment in Germany by many … typically assumed by contributors to recent discussions on the potential labour market effects of welfare reforms in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297285
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Eine empirische Analyse von Sanktionen für Arbeitslose in Westdeutschland während der 1980er und 1990er Jahre
Wilke, Ralf A. - 2003
This paper describes some empirical phenomena about sanctions in the unemployment compensation system in Germany using … the unemployed. From these results it is questionable whether the current activation policy for unemployed in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297337
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Reform of Unemployment Compensation in Germany: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis Using Register Data
Lee, Sokbae; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2005
duration of unemployment. Empirical results for the reform of the unemployment compensation system in Germany during the 1980s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297436
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The Effects of Changes in the Unemployment Compensation System on the Adoption of IT by Older Workers
Spitz, Alexandra - 2005
changes in the unemployment compensation system enacted in Germany during the 1980s and 1990s to demonstrate that ?incentives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297447