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Gender wage gap in West Germany : how far do gender differences in human capital matter?

Lauer, Charlotte - 2000

attributed to women's relative deficit with respect to human capital endowment, an equally large part stems from the fact that … inequality with respect to the returns to human capital in terms of wage which favours women. Nevertheless, women improved their …, mainly because women have a lower educational attainment than men but also because similar qualification levels yield lower …

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Selektivität und direkte Wirkungen von Vermittlungsgutscheinen : empirische Befunde aus der Einführungsphase

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor); … - 2006

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How do employment effects of job creation schemes differ with respect to the foregoing unemployment duration?

Hujer, Reinhard (contributor); … - 2006

Based on new administrative data for Germany covering entrances into job creation schemes between July 2000 and May 2001, we evaluate the effects of this active labour market policy programme on the employability of the participating individuals. The programme effects are estimated considering...

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Get training or wait? : Long-run employment effects of training programs for the unemploymed in West Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); … - 2006

Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employment effects and often it is not possible to assess whether positive long-run effects exist. Based on unique administrative data, this paper estimates the long-run differential employment effects of...

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Long-run effects of training programs for the unemployed in East Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); … - 2007

Public sector sponsored training was implemented at a large scale during the transition process in East Germany. Based on new administrative data, we estimate the differential effects of three different programs for East Germany during the transition process. We apply a dynamic multiple...

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Get training or wait? : long-run employment effects of training programs for the unemploymed in West Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); … - 2007

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Deregulating job placement in Europe : a microeconometric evaluation of an innovative voucher scheme in Germany

Winterhager, Henrik (contributor); Heinze, Anja (contributor) - 2006

Job placement vouchers can be regarded as a tool to spur competition between public and private job placement activities. The German government launched this instrument in order to end the public placement monopoly and to subsidize its private competitors. We exploit very rich administrative...

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A macroeconomic model for the evaluation of labor market reforms

Krebs, Tom; Scheffel, Martin - 2010

We develop a tractable macroeconomic model with employment risk and labor market search in order evaluate the effects of labor market reform on unemployment, growth, and welfare. The model has a large number of risk-averse households who can invest in risk-free physical capital and risky human...

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Spillover effects of labour market reforms in a three-country world

Fries, Claudia - 2015

I extend the model-based literature on spillover effects of labour market reforms on foreign (un-)employment by allowing for third-country effects. When the workhorse two-country model is enlarged to include a third country, a reform causes an additional indirect effect through a terms-of-trade...

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What active labour market programmes work for immigrants in Europe? : A meta-analysis of the evaluation literature

Butschek, Sebastian; Walter, Thomas - 2013

A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour markets and investigates the employment effects of Active Labour Market Pro-grammes (ALMPs) on this subgroup. Using a meta-analysis, we condense 93 estimates from 33 empir-ical...

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