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Do high-skilled immigrants find jobs faster than low-skilled immigrants? : conference paper

Hochfellner, Daniela; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2014 - Preliminary version: 27th February 2014

This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We first show theoretically that the job-finding rate for the high-skilled varies depending on their search strategy: if they are prepared to look for both unskilled as well as...

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The aggregate effects of the Hartz reforms in Germany : conference paper

Hertweck, Matthias Sebastian; Sigrist, Oliver - 2013

(1983-2009). We show that, until the early 2000s, close to 60% of changes in the unemployment rate are due to changes in the …

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Effect of past coworkers on job search evidence from Austria : conference paper

Saygin, Perihan; Weber, Andrea; Weynandt, Michèle - 2013

exit hazard from unemployment, and to a 2.5 percent decrease in the drop out hazard. It is also associated with a 0.5 EUR …

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Unemployment compensation and unemployment duration : evidence from the German Hartz IV reform ; conference paper

Kloß, Michael; Nagl, Wolfgang - 2013 - This version: August 23, 2013

In 2005, the unemployment compensation for long-term unemployed was reduced in Germany. We examine how this reform … affected the transition probability to employment. Additionally, we inspect how this effect varies over unemployment duration … raised the transition probability of short-term unemployed. The effect is even higher, the longer the unemployment duration …

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Keeping up with the Joneses : income comparisons and labour supply ; conference paper

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2013 - Preliminary version August 07, 2013

We investigate whether working time is related to the intensity of income comparisons and relative income. Our simple theoretical model demonstrates that the effects of relative income concerns depend on whether an individual can choose contractual working hours and/or overtime. In the empirical...

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Opinion dynamics and wisdom under conformity

Buechel, Berno; Hellmann, Tim; Klößner, Stefan - 2013

We present a model of opinion formation where individuals repeatedly engage in discussion and update their opinion in a social network similarly to the DeGroot model. Abstracting from the standard assumption that individuals always report their opinion truthfully, agents in our model may state...

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Culture and the spatial dissemination of ideas evidence from Froebel's kindergarten movement : conference paper

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver - 2013 - This version: January 2013

Friedrich Froebel, a German pedagogue, established the first kindergarten worldwide in Thuringia in 1839. We study the spatial dissemination of the kindergarten movement in Germany in the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Spatial dissemination can be explained by the cultural proximity,...

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Job search and the age-inequality profile : conference paper

Marotzke, Petra - 2013

, the model captures the shapes of the empirically observed age profiles of average wages, the unemployment rate, the … unemployment to employment transition rate, and the employment to employment transition rate. …

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Double matching : social contacts in a labour market with on-the-job search ; conference paper

Zaharieva, Anna - 2013

This paper develops a labour market matching model with heterogeneous firms, on-thejob search and referrals. Social capital is endogenous, so that better connected workers bargain higher wages for a given level of productivity. This is a positive effect of referrals on reservation wages. At the...

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Simultaneous search and network efficiency : conference paper

Gautier, Pieter; Holzner, Christian - 2013

When workers send applications to vacancies they create a bipartite network. Coordination frictions arise if workers and firms only observe their own links. We show that those frictions and the wage mechanism are in general not independent. Only wage mechanisms that allow for ex post competition...

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