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In recent years, coinciding with the discussion led in many OECD countries, Germany has started to contract out … contracted out so far in Germany. In this paper a microeconometric evaluation of this system using propensity score matching is …
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This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ?rigid? in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...
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This paper presents an applied general equilibrium model for Germany. The model integrates specific labour market …
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International concern about climate change has led to the Kyoto Protocol, negotiated in 1997, which contains legally binding emission targets for industrialized countries to be achieved during the commitment period 2008-2012. While proponents of the Protocol celebrate it as a breakthrough in...
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The paper aims at assessing the costs and benefits of antitrust enforcement. The analysis starts with an investigation of why competition is typically worth protecting followed by a collection of empirical evidence which shows that competition actually needs protection by antitrust policy in...
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Between 1991 and 1997 West Germany spent on average about 3.6 bn Euro per year on public sector sponsored training …
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Germany and give a measure for deadweight loss. …
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Die vorliegende Studie untersucht auf der Basis von Prozessdaten der Bundesagentur für Arbeit Inanspruchnahme, direkte Wirkungen und Effizienz von Vermittlungsgutscheinen, die im Zeitraum Mai 2003 bis Juni 2004, also in der Einführungsphase, von Arbeitslosen in Anspruch genommen wurden....
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Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die relative Wirksamkeit von Vermittlungsgutscheinen und Beauftragungen Dritter mit der gesamten Vermittlung im direkten Vergleich. Die Untersuchung basiert auf den Prozessdaten der Bundesagentur für Arbeit und bezieht sich auf das Jahr 2004. Als Zielvariable...
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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 …
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