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Jobs, crime, and votes : a short-run evaluation of the refugee crisis in Germany
Gehrsitz, Markus; Ungerer, Martin - 2016
Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one million arriving in Germany alone. Yet, little is known about the impact of this inflow on labor markets, crime, and voting behavior. This article uses administrative data on refugee allocation and provides an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572599
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Jobs, crime, and votes : a short-run evaluation of the refugee crisis in Germany
Gehrsitz, Markus; Ungerer, Martin - 2018
Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one million arriving in Germany alone. Yet, little is known about the impact of this inflow on labor markets, crime, and voting behavior. This article uses administrative data on refugee allocation and provides an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011876117
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Education and unemployment : a French-German comparison
Lauer, Charlotte - 2003
This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based … on a discrete time competing risks hazard rate model applied to comparable microdata sets. The unemployment risk is … broken down into the risk of entering unemployment and the risk, once unemployed, of not getting reemployed. The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448577
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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
combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009784011
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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
inflows into unemployment for the years 1986/87 and 1993/94 and apply local linear matching based on the estimated propensity … score to estimate the effects of training programs starting during 1 to 2, 3 to 4, and 5 to 8 quarters of unemployment. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003338016
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New insights on unemployment duration and post unemployment earnings in Germany : censored box-cox quantile regression at work
Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor);  … - 2007
periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post{unemployment earnings in West Germany. For … the unemployment duration, we estimate censored Box{Cox quantile regression, which is robust with respect to the … the length of benefit entitlement is only of minor importance for the duration of search unemployment and for post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003435417
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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
inflows into unemployment for the years 1986/87 and 1993/94 and apply local linear matching based on the estimated propensity … score to estimate the effects of training programs starting during 1 to 2, 3 to 4, and 5 to 8 quarters of unemployment. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003607610
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Reduction in the long-term unemployment of the elderly : a success story from Finnland
Kyyrä, Tomi (contributor); Wilke, Ralf A. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002240654
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End-of-year spending and the long-run employment effects of training programs for the unemployed
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Furdas, Marina; Sajons, Christoph - 2016
This study re-estimates the employment effects of training programs for the unemployed using exogenous variation in participation caused by budget rules in Germany in the 1980s and early 1990s, resulting in the infamous "end-of-year spending". In addition to estimating complier effects with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571449
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Language usage, participation, employment and earnings : evidence for foreigners in West Germany with multiple sources of selection
Aldashev, Alisher (contributor);  … - 2008
Language proficiency may not only affect the earnings of the individual, but the probability to participate in the labor market or becoming employed as well. It may also affect selection of people into economic sector and occupation. In this paper, the effects of language proficiency on earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777754