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Wages, rents, unemployment, and the quality of life
Wrede, Matthias - 2013 - This version: March 2013
Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a search-matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the willingness to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011560029
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The effect of the Hartz labor market reforms on post-unemployment wages, sorting, and matching
Woodcock, Simon D. - 2020
wage loss. Collectively, the sorting and matching channels explain almost all of the Hartz reforms' effect on post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228177
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Benefit duration, unemployment duration and job match quality : a regression-discontinuity approach
Caliendo, Marco; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2009
The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit generosity, either in terms of benefit duration or entitlement, has a negative impact on the job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932248
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Benefit duration, unemployment duration and job match quality : a regression-discontinuity approach
Caliendo, Marco; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2009
The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit generosity, either in terms of benefit duration or entitlement, has a negative impact on the job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003921279
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579318
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Transitions in the German labor market : structure and crisis
Krause, Michael; Uhlig, Harald - 2011
featured mainly declining unemployment rates. We develop a search and matching model with heterogeneous skills to explore the … destroyed is likely to have prevented strong increases in unemployment. -- German Hartz IV reforms ; search and matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009490829
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Evaluation of active labour market policy : methodological concepts and empirical estimates
Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco - 2000
Persistently high unemployment, tight government budgets and the growing scepticism regarding the effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) are the basis for a growing interest in evaluating these measures. This paper intends to explain the need for evaluation on the micro- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339682
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The aggregate effects of the Hartz reforms in Germany
Hertweck, Matthias S.; Sigrist, Oliver - 2012 - This Version: December 21, 2012
This paper quantifies the impact of the Hartz reforms on matching efficiency, using monthly SOEP gross worker flows … the outflow rate (job finding) has been steadily increasing. This indicates that matching efficiency has improved … substantially in recent years. Results from an estimated matching function - pointing to efficiency gains of more than 20 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687896
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Job matching across occupational labour markets
Stops, Michael - 2012
This paper refers to an analysis of matching processes in occupational labour markets in terms of classes of jobs that … on the assumption of separate occupational labour markets. This assumption suggests that job search and matching … cross-sectional dependency lags for regressors to test the hypothesis that job search and matching occur across occupational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009670237
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The aggregate effects of the Hartz reforms in Germany
Hertweck, Matthias S.; Sigrist, Oliver - 2013
This paper quantifies the impact of the Hartz reforms on matching efficiency, using monthly SOEP gross worker flows … the outflow rate (job finding) has been steadily increasing. This indicates that matching efficiency has improved … substantially in recent years. Results from an estimated matching function - pointing to efficiency gains of more than 20 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009717883