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Temporary Overpessimism : Job Loss Expectations Following a Large Negative Employment Shock
Emmler, Julian; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2021
Job loss expectations were widespread among workers in East Germany after reunification with West Germany. Though experiencing a large negative employment shock, East German workers were still overpessimistic immediately after reunification with respect to their job risk. Over time, job loss...
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The Role of Unemployment and Job Change When Estimating the Returns to Migration
Emmler, Julian; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2021
Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, we focus on pre-migration employment dynamics, earnings uncertainty, and job change. Migrants are found to be negatively selected with respect to labor market outcomes, with a large drop in earnings and employment during the last few...
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New Insights on Unemployment Duration and Post Unemployment Earnings in Germany : Censored Box-Cox Quantile Regression at Work
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2021
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 …
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Wages and Employment Across Skill Groups : An Analysis for West Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd - 1999
resulted in increased unemployment. Using up-to-date econometric techniques, a balanced mixture between descriptive evidence … found and higher wage flexibility could have alleviated the dispersion in unemployment rates across skill groups. The main …
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Jobs. Jobs? Jobs! : Orientierungshilfen für den Weg zu mehr Beschäftigung
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 2000
Die Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit genießt oberste wirtschaftspolitische Priorität - dieser Feststellung wird kaum jemand widersprechen wollen. Eher scheiden sich die Geister an der Frage nach dem "wirklichen" quantitativen Ausmaß der Unterbeschäftigung, ihren Ursachen und welche...
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The Heterogeneous Effects of Training Incidence and Duration on Labor Market Transitions
Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2010
This paper estimates the impact of training incidence and duration on employment transitions accounting for the endogeneity of program participation and duration. We specify a very flexible bivariate random effects probit model for employment and training participation and we use Bayesian Markov...
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The Heterogeneous Effects of Training Incidence and Duration on Labor Market Transitions
Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2010
This paper estimates the impact of training incidence and duration on employment transitions accounting for the endogeneity of program participation and duration. We specify a very flexible bivariate random effects probit model for employment and training participation and we use Bayesian Markov...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136712
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Essays on the German labor market
Zwiener, Hanna - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012134069