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Unemployment persistence : is there evidence for stigma effects?

Biewen, Martin (contributor); Steffes, Susanne (contributor) - 2008

We present evidence for a highly significant interaction between state dependence in individual unemployment risk and the business cycle. The disadvantage from having been unemployed in the previous period is smaller in times of relatively high unemployment and larger in times of low...

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Which program for whom? : evidence on the comparative effectiveness of public sponsored training programs in Germany

Biewen, Martin; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; … - 2007

We use a new and exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to evaluate the employment effects of a variety … dynamic selection into programs. Our results suggest that in West Germany both short-term and medium-term programs show … exceptions, we find little evidence for significant positive treatment effects in East Germany. There is some evidence that the …

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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 (contributor); Wilke, Ralf A. (contributor) - 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...

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Trends in the German income distribution : 2005/06 to 2010/11

Biewen, Martin; Ungerer, Martin; Löffler, Max - 2016

We analyze the potential influence of a number of factors on the distribution of equivalized net incomes in Germany …

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Rising wage inequality in Germany : increasing heterogeneity and changing selection into full-time work

Biewen, Martin; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Lazzer, Jakob de - 2017

This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables …

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