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The empirical relevance of minimum wages for the low-wage sector

Ragnitz, Joachim; Thum, Marcel - In: CESifo Forum 08 (2007) 2, pp. 35-37

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Imposed benefit sanctions and the unemployment-to-employment transition : the German experience

Müller, Kai-Uwe (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2008

positive short- and long-term effects of benefit sanctions which are robust for men and women in East and West Germany. The …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716523

Would a legal minimum wage reduce poverty? : a microsimulation study for Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2008

an important policy issue in Germany. We analyze the distributional effects of the introduction of a nationwide legal … and had no negative employment effects. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726086

Imposed benefit sanctions and the unemployment-to-employment transition : the German experience

Müller, Kai-Uwe (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2008

positive short- and long-term effects of benefit sanctions which are robust for men and women in East and West Germany. The …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726098

Active labor market policy in Germany : is there a successful policy strategy?

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Schneider, Hilmar - In: Regional science & urban economics 36 (2006) 3, pp. 399-430

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Evaluating continuous training programs using the generalized propensity score1

Kluve, Jochen; Schneider, Hilmar; Uhlendorff, Arne; … - 2007

This paper assesses the dynamics of treatment effects arising from variation in the duration of training. We use German administrative data that have the extraordinary feature that the amount of treatment varies continuously from 10 days to 395 days (i.e. 13 months). This feature allows us to...