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Collective wage agreements and the adjustment of workers and hours in German service firms
Kaiser, Ulrich; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2000
There is a growing concern about collective wage agreement and employment dynamics in Germany. In this paper, evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444737
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Tarifverträge und Beschäftigungspolitik in Dienstleistungsunternehmen
Kaiser, Ulrich; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2000
Der Beitrag untersucht die Verbreitung von Tarifverträgen in Dienstleistungsunternehmen sowie deren Wirkungen auf die Beschäftigungspolitik im Falle von Nachfrageschwankungen. Der empirische Teil basiert auf der ZEW/Creditreform Konjunkturumfrage bei unternehmensnahen...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009784011
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The heterogeneous effects of training incidence and duration on labor market transitions
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; Paul, Marie - 2010
start. The effects are higher for women than for men and higher in West Germany than in East Germany. Further, we find that …Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen sind ein wichtiger Bestandteil der Aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland und in vielen … Beschäftigungssuche ab, denn in Deutschland können dem Arbeitslosen zu jedem Zeitpunkt Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen zugewiesen werden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008665400
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Do employment subsidies reduce early apprenticeship dropout?
Fries, Jan; Goebel, Christian; Maier, Michael F. - 2013
We evaluate the effect of the Apprenticeship Bonus, an employment subsidy programme, on early dropout of apprenticeship. Eligibility to the programme is restricted to school leavers who have actively searched for apprenticeship training to start immediately after leaving school, but were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009784072
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Deja vu? : short-term training in Germany 1980-1992 and 2000-2003
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Orlyanskaya, Olga; Osikominu, Aderonke - 2008
Short-term training has recently become the largest active labor market program in Germany regarding the number of … paper estimates the effects of short-term training programs in West Germany starting in the time period 1980 to 1992 and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003721828
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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
participation caused by budget rules in Germany in the 1980s and early 1990s, resulting in the infamous "end-of-year spending". In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571449
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Is Portugal really so arteriosclerotic? : results from a cross-country analysis of labor adjustment
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 1999
Reputation indexes of employment protection have proven popular constructs in studies of the covariation of labor market institutions and macroeconomic outcomes. Portugal occupies an unenviable rank order in such measures of the stringency of employment protection. We critique this reputation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442864
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Does innovation stimulate employment? : a firm-level analysis using comparable micro-data from four uropean countries
Harrison, Rupert; Jaumandreu Balanzo, Jordi; Mairesse, … - 2008
innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated using comparable firm-level data from France, Germany, Spain and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793866
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Is temporary employment a stepping stone for unemployed school leavers?
Goebel, Christian (contributor);  … - 2008
Many school-leavers enter the labour market via temporary employment. In this paper we investigate the impact of a temporary employment spell at the start of the career on the transition rate into permanent employment. We compare the case of temporary employment to the hypothetical case of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777857