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Previous empirical studies of job creation schemes in Germany have shown that the average effects for the participating … West Germany who benefit from participation in terms of higher employment rates. …
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Recent years have brought growing evidence for an increasing labour demand for high skilled and a deterioration of the labour position of less skilled employees. The two most common explanations for this finding are an increasing international trade and a skill biased technological change....
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estimate the impacts of ALMP in Germany for the time period 1999-2001 with regional data of 175 labour office districts. Due to … accounts especially for the inherent simultaneity problem of ALMP. For West Germany we find positive effects of vocational … training and job creation schemes on the labour market situation, whereas the results for East Germany do not allow profound …
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representative German establishment data set, the IAB establishment panel, the study finds that the presence of team-work, a …
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survey", a rich German data set with information on 0.1 percent of all individuals employed in Germany in 1998/1999. We use a …
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In many European countries, labor markets are characterized by high regional disparities in terms of unemployment rates on the one hand and low geographical mobility among the unemployed on the other hand. This is somewhat surprising and raises the question of why only minor shares of unemployed...
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This study quantifies the short-term distributional effects of the new statutory minimum wage in Germany. Using …
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We assess the short-term employment effects of the introduction of a national statutory minimum wage in Germany in 2015 …
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Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empirical evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive evidence on the incidence of the phenomenon and concentrates on the effectiveness of change...
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unclear, however, if the employment opportunities of the majority of the labour force in Germany-employees with a degree from …
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