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Workers, Firms, or Institutions: What Determines Job Duration for Male Employees in Germany?
Boockmann, Bernhard; Steffes, Susanne - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298698
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Poland on the dole: unemployment benefits, training, and long-term unemployment during transition
Puhani, Patrick A. - 1996
We analyse the duration of unemployment spells in Poland using data from the Polish Labour Force Survey of August 1994. The effects on the duration of unemployment of important socio-economic and demographic characteristics are explored besides the impacts of the unemployment benefit system and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299574
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Individual and Plant-level Determinants of Job Durations in Germany
Boockmann, Bernhard; Steffes, Susanne - 2005
We examine job durations of German workers using a linked employeremployee dataset. The descriptive evidence suggests that firm characteristics have a substantial influence on the job exit rate. However, the extent of dispersion in durations is not substantially lower at the firm level than for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297501
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Beschäftigungsstabilität im Konjunkturzyklus: Eine empirische Analyse mit Individualdaten für Westdeutschland 1984-2005
Walter, Thomas; Hübler, Olaf - 2008
Der Beitrag untersucht unter Verwendung der Daten des Sozio-ökonomischen Panels für Westdeutschland über den Zeitraum 1984-2005, ob und in welcher Form die individuelle Betriebszugehörigkeitsdauer von konjunkturellen Schwankungen beeinflusst wird. Als Analyseinstrument dient die...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298684
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Do Fixed-Term Contracts Increase the Long-Term Employment Opportunities of the Unemployed?
Hagen, Tobias - 2003
The paper investigates whether (unsubsidised) fixed-term contracts (FTCs) are a means of integration for the unemployed in the West German labour market. This is done by analysing whether entering into an FTC improves the employment opportunities of an unemployed person in terms of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297300
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Individual and Plant-level Determinants of Job Durations in Germany
Boockmann, Bernhard; Steffes, Susanne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
We examine job durations of German workers using a linked employeremployee dataset. The descriptive evidence suggests that firm characteristics have a substantial influence on the job exit rate. However, the extent of dispersion in durations is not substantially lower at the firm level than for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097495
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Workers, Firms, or Institutions: What Determines Job Duration for Male Employees in Germany?
Boockmann, Bernhard; Steffes, Susanne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
We examine job durations of German workers using linked employeremployee 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097993
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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 … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297436
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Immigration and Heterogeneous Labor in Western Germany: A Labor Market Classification Based on Nonparametric Estimation
Puhani, Patrick A.; Frölich, Markus - 2002
This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298120
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Job creation schemes in turbulent times
Bergemann, Annette; Pohlan, Laura; Uhlendorff, Arne - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011645010