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Fixing the leak: unemployment incidence before and after the 2006 reform of unemployment benefits in Germany
Dlugosz, Stephan; Stephan, Gesine; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2009
From 2002-2004, the German government passed several laws that curtailed the generosity of the unemployment … compensation system. One of the most ambitious changes was a considerable reduction in unemployment benefit entitlement lengths for … highly disputed reform induced a considerable decline in unemployment incidence among older workers. It thus sealed an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299834
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Education and Unemployment: A French-German Comparison
Lauer, Charlotte - 2003
examines the impact of education on both risk components. France faces a higher unemployment rate than West-Germany, due to a … higher risk of entering unemployment whereas the risk, when unemployed, of not getting reemployed is lower than in Germany …This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297286
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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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Mobilität nach der beruflichen Ausbildung: Eine empirische Studie für Westdeutschland
Franz, Wolfgang; Zimmermann, Volker - 1999
data covering the time period 1980 to 1991 in West Germany and is based on a hazard rate model. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297623
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Control transfers in corporate Germany: their frequency, causes and consequences
Köke, Jens - 2000
This study examines changes in block ownership for a large sample of listed and non-listed German firms. The frequency of block trading is similar to other countries, and the vast majority of block trades leads to changes in ultimate ownership (control transfers). Such changes are more likely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297730
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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? Microeconometric evidence from the 1990s
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001
the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297774
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The optimal choice of a reference standard for income comparisons: indirect evidence from immigrants' return visits
Stichnoth, Holger - 2009
I propose two new tests of Falk and Knell's (2004)prediction that individuals'reference income increases with ability. To overcome the difficulty that the reference income is not observed in existing large data sets, I extend Falk and Knell's model to establish a link between immigrants'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298808
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Inflation Expectations of Experts and ECB Communication
Ullrich, Katrin - 2007
The communication policy of the European Central Bank attracts a lot of attention from financial markets. This paper analyses the informational content of the monthly introductory statements of the ECB president explaining interest rate decisions with regard to inflation expectations of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297941
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What drives the vacancy rate for information technology workers?
Falk, Martin - 2001
Deutschland. Datengrundlage ist eine repräsentative telefongestützte (CATI) Umfrage von 4150 Unternehmen für das Jahr 2000. Die …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297781
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Job shopping after vocational training? An empirical analysis of the transition from apprenticeship training to work
Franz, Wolfgang; Zimmermann, Volker - 2001
data covering the time period 1980 to 1991 in West Germany and is based on a hazard rate model. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297801