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Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L. - 1998 - (Second Revision)

The principal justification for minimum wage legislation resides in improving the economic condition of low-wage workers. Most previous analyses of the distributional effects of minimum wages have been confined to simulation exercises employing rather restrictive assumptions that guarantee the...

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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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Do public works programs work? : some unpleasant results from the East German experience

Kraus, Florian; Puhani, Patrick A.; Steiner, Viktor - 1998

We analyze the effectiveness of public works programs (PWP, Arbeitsbeschaffungsmaßnahmen) in east Germany as measured by their effects on individual future reemployment probabilities in regular jobs. These are estimated by discrete hazard rate models on the basis of individual-level panel data....

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Advantage through training? : a microeconometric evaluation of the employment effects of active labour market programmes in Poland

Puhani, Patrick A. - 1998

We estimate the employment effects of training, intervention works (subsidised employment), and public works programmes in Poland. The analysis is based on retrospective monthly calendar information on the labour force state and active labour market programme (ALMP) participation between January...

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Identifying effekt heterogeneity to improve the effeciency of job creation schemes in Germany?

Caliendo, Marco (contributor); Hujer, Reinhard (contributor) - 2005

Previous empirical studies of job creation schemes in Germany have shown that the average effects for the participating individuals are negative. However, we find that this is not true for all strata of the population. Identifying individual characteristics that are responsible for the effect...

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Evaluation der Eingliederungseffekte von Arbeitsbeschaffungsmaßnahmen in reguläre Beschäftigung für Teilnehmer in Deutschland

Caliendo, Marco (contributor); Huber, Reinhard (contributor) - 2004

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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...

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Minimum wages and competition : the case of the German roofing sector

Kraft, Kornelius; Rammer,Christian; Gottschalk, Sandra - 2012

This paper analyses the effects of minimum wages on competition in the German roofing sector. The case is particularly interesting since this sector is faced with a uniform minimum wage despite significant regional disparities in productivity and wages. As a control industry we take the plumbing...

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Carbon taxes and general joint implementation : an applied general equilibrium analysis for Germany and India

Böhringer, Christoph; Conrad, Klaus; Löschel, Andreas - 2000

countries such as India where Germany pays emission reduction abroad rather than meeting its reduction target solely by domestic … framework of a large-scale general equilibrium model for Germany and India where Germany may undertake joint implementation with … plants produced in Germany. This provides positive employment effects and additional income for Germany. For India, joint …

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Heterogeneous labour markets in a microsimulation-AGE model : application to welfare reform in Germany

Boeters, Stefan (contributor); Feil, Michael (contributor) - 2008

Labour market reforms that are designed to stimulate labour supply at the lower end of the wage distribution can never be precisely restricted to affect only the target group. Spillovers to and feedback from other segments of the labour market are unavoidable and may counteract the direct...

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