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The Dynamics of Social Assistance Benefit Receipt in Germany: State Dependence Before and After the 'Hartz Reforms'
Königs, Sebastian - 2014
In this article, I study state dependence in social assistance receipt in Germany using annual survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1995-2011. There is considerable observed state dependence, with an average persistence rate in benefits of 68% comparing to an...
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Reservation wages, offered wages, and unemployment duration: new empirical evidence
Christensen, Björn - 2002
This paper studies the reservation wages of unemployed persons and the wages offered them in Germany from 1987 to 1998, whereby special focus is placed on unemployment duration. The results of the study indicate that in contrast to reservation wages, offered wages decline considerably with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260485
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Die Validität erfragter Reservationslöhne: ein Test auf Basis der stationären Suchtheorie
Christensen, Björn - 2003
Spiegeln in Befragungen ermittelte Reservationslöhne valide das wider, was nach der Suchtheorie zu erwarten wäre? Um diese Frage beantworten zu können, werden auf Basis der stationären Suchtheorie unter zu Hilfenahme von empirisch ermittelten Beobachtungen über den Sucherfolg von...
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The determinants of reservation wages in Germany : does a motivation gap exist?
Christensen, Björn - 2001
This paper investigates the reservation wages of unemployed persons on the basis of a job-search model with non-static reservation wages using panel data from Germany from 1987 to 1998. The results suggest that reservation wages are relatively high in Germany compared to other countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011474420
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Reservation wages, offered wages, and unemployment duration : new empirical evidence
Christensen, Björn - 2002
This paper studies the reservation wages of unemployed persons and the wages offered them in Germany from 1987 to 1998, whereby special focus is placed on unemployment duration. The results of the study indicate that in contrast to reservation wages, offered wages decline considerably with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011474648
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Do active labour market policies for welfare recipients in Germany raise their regional outflow into work? : a matching function approach
Wapler, Rüdiger; Wolf, Katja; Wolff, Joachim - 2018
vieler Reformen der Arbeitslosenunterstützung von Arbeitslosen, auch der Hartz-Reformen in Deutschland, war die Aktivierung … werden Paneldaten der Jobcenter in Deutschland im Zeitraum 2006 bis 2011 auf Quartalsbasis verwendet, um mit einem … Matchingfunktionsansatz die Effekte der quantitativ bedeutsamsten arbeitsmarktpolitischen Maßnahmen auf den Umfang der Abgänge aus Arbeitsuche …
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Characteristics of unemployment dynamics: The chain reaction approach
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000
The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting lagged adjustment processes. In the context of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273099
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Characteristics of unemployment dynamics: The chain reaction approach
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007
The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labour market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting lagged adjustment processes. In the context of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293972
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Characteristics of unemployment dynamics : the chain reaction approach
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000
The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting lagged adjustment processes. In the context of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325992
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Fixed-term contracts in East and West Germany : low wages, poor prospects?
McGinnity, Frances; Mertens, Antje - 2002 - Rev.
Amid lively debate on the consequences of temporary employment, the paper examines the wages and transitions of temporary employees in Germany using socio-economic panel data from the late 1990s. Compared to simple OLS estimates, using a fixed effects model decreases wage differentials between...
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