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Thumbscrews for agencies or for individuals? : how to reduce unemployment ; conference paper
Launov, Andrey; Wälde, Klaus - 2014
To which extent does an increase in effectiveness of a public employment agency on the one hand and a reduction of unemployment benefits on the other reduce unemployment? Using the recent labour market reform in Germany we find that an improved agency explains substantial part of the observed...
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Decomposing a matching estimation : correlated unobserved non-random selection, substitution, and causal effects in a large scale ALMP Program in Germany ; conference paper
Brändle, Tobias; Fervers, Lukas; Webel, Carina - 2014 - Preliminary version
We analyse the treatment effects of a large scale German active labour market program. Modellprojekte Bürgerarbeit is a modified public employment scheme, with an activation period as a first step. Using data from individual employment records we perform matching estimations to analyse the...
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Gute Arbeit - gutes Leben! : wir Frauen zahlen eure Krise nicht! ; 12. SGB-Frauenkongress vom 15. und 16. November 2013
Werder, Christina; Staubhaar, Ruth - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341805
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Labour market effects of retraining for the unemployed : the role of occupations
Kruppe, Thomas; Lang, Julia - 2014
We analyse the impact of retraining for the unemployed on future labour market success, and estimate effects separately for different target occupations. We use German registry data and apply statistical matching methods. The results show that on average, after a period with strong lock-in...
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The evaluation of start-up subsidies for the unemployed and the role of unobserved characteristics for matching estimators : conference paper
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2013 - Preliminary draft
entrepreneurs are different , e.g., with respect to personality traits, non-cognitive skills and risk preferences. Since most of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344639
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Unobservable, but unimportant? : the influence of personality traits (and other usually unobserved variables) for the estimation of treatment effects ; conference paper
Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Mitnik, Oscar A. - 2014 - Preliminary version, this draft: February 28, 2014
A large and highly used number of treatment effects estimators rely on the unconfoundedness assumption ("selection on observables") which is fundamentally non testable. When evaluating the effects of labor market policies, researchers need to observe both variables that affect treatment...
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Does work-time flexibility really improve the reconciliation of family and work? : conference paper
Scheffel, Juliane - 2013
Temporal work flexibility is often viewed as means to improve the reconciliation of family and work. By exploiting … allows mothers to spend more time with their children. The additional childcare time is added to the already existing work … burden. It is accommodated by reductions in regenerative time and leisure which makes a reconciliation of family and work …
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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. We estimate proportional hazard models using German...
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Hacia la institucionalización del enfoque de género en las políticas económico-laborales en América Latina : informe del Seminario Regional, Santiago de Chile, 12 y 13 de junio de...
Bravo, Loreto (contributor); Rico, María Nieves (contributor) - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001655149
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Europäische Sozialagenda auf der Tagung des Europäischen Rates in Nizza am 7., 8. und 9. Dezember 2000 angenommen
In: Amtsblatt der Europäischen Gemeinschaften / C 44 (2001) 157, pp. 4-12
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