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Marginal employment, unemployment duration and job match quality

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2012

In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income during job search by taking up "marginal employment" up to a threshold without any deduction from their benefits. Marginal employment can be considered as a wage subsidy as it lowers labour costs for firms owing to...

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The Threat Effect of Participation in Active Labor Market Programs on Job Search Behavior of Migrants in Germany

Bergemann, Annette - 2011

Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects may differ according to ethnic origin. We apply a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job search behavioral outcomes, such as the reservation wage or...

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The IZA Evaluation Dataset : Towards Evidence-Based Labor Policy-Making

Caliendo, Marco - 2011

The evaluation of labor market policies has become an important issue in many European countries. In recent years, many of them have opened their administrative databases for evaluation studies. The advantages of administrative data are straightforward: they are accurate, contain a large number...

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Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality

Caliendo, Marco - 2012

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Fighting Youth Unemployment : The Effects of Active Labor Market Policies

Caliendo, Marco - 2012

A substantial number of young unemployed participate in active labor market programs (ALMP) in Germany each year. While the aims of these programs are clear – a fast re-integration into employment or enrollment in further education – a comprehensive analysis of their effectiveness has yet to...

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Personality Traits and the Evaluation of Start-Up Subsidies

Caliendo, Marco - 2016

Many countries support business start-ups to spur economic growth and reduce unemployment with different programmes. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal interpretation of the results only if all relevant...

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The Short-Run Employment Effects of the German Minimum Wage Reform

Caliendo, Marco - 2017

affirm the absence of anticipation effects and verify the assumption of a common trend in wages before the reform. Based on …

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New Evidence on Long-Term Effects of Start-Up Subsidies : Matching Estimates and Their Robustness

Caliendo, Marco - 2019

. Using propensity score matching (PSM) as our main empirical approach, we provide estimates of long-term effects of the post-reform … are larger than what was estimated for the pre-reform program. Extensive sensitivity analyses within the standard PSM … variation in the likelihood of receiving treatment. Here, we exploit the fact that the reform increased the discretionary power …

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Do Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed Affect Participants' Well-Being? A Rigorous Look at (Un-)Intended Consequences of Labor Market Policies

Caliendo, Marco - 2019

We estimate the long-term effects of start-up subsidies (SUS) for the unemployed on subjective outcome indicators of well-being, as measured by the participants' satisfaction in different domains. This extends previous analyses of the current German SUS program ("Gründungszuschuss") that...

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The Short-Run Employment Effects of the German Minimum Wage Reform

Caliendo, Marco - 2018

affirm the absence of anticipation effects and verify the assumption of a common trend in wages before the reform. Based on …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929738