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Unemployment Duration and the Length of Entitlement Periods for Unemployment Benefits: Do the IAB Employment Subsample and the German Socio-Economic Panel Yield the Same Results?

Biewen, Martin; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2005

We compare information on the length of unemployment spells contained in the IAB employment subsample (IABS) and in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Due to the lack of information on registered unemployment in the IABS, we use two proxies of unemployment in the IABS as introduced by...

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Reform of Unemployment Compensation in Germany: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis Using Register Data

Lee, Sokbae; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2005

Economic theory suggests that an extension of the maximum length of entitlement for unemployment benefits increases the duration of unemployment. Empirical results for the reform of the unemployment compensation system in Germany during the 1980s are less clear. The analysis in this paper is...

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The Geographical Mobility of Unemployed Workers: Evidence from West Germany

Arntz, Melanie - 2005

Using a competing-risk framework of exiting unemployment to jobs in a local or a distant labor market area, this paper investigates whether unemployed individuals in West Germany choose search strategies that favor migrating out of declining regions. Moreover, the paper investigates how such...

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The Effects of Changes in the Unemployment Compensation System on the Adoption of IT by Older Workers

Spitz, Alexandra - 2005

Two main hypotheses can be found in literature on why elderly workers have a lower probability of using information technology than their younger peers: lower learning capabilities and reduced incentives to invest in human capital. I use law changes in the unemployment compensation system...

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Employment Effects of the Provision of Specific Professional Skills and Techniques in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Speckesser, Stefan - 2005

Based on unique administrative data, which has only recently become available, this paper estimates the employment effects of the most important type of public sector sponsored training in Germany, namely the provision of specific professional skills and techniques (SPST). Using the inflows into...

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Skill Biased Technological Change and Endogenous Benefits: The Dynamics of Unemployment and Wage Inequality

Weiss, Matthias; Garloff, Alfred - 2005

In this paper, we study the effect of skill-biased technological change on unemployment when benefits are linked to the evolution of average income and when this is not the case. In the former case, an increase in the productivity of skilled workers and hence their wage leads to an increase in...

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Application of a simple nonparametric conditional quantile function estimator in unemployment duration analysis

Wichert, Laura; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2005

The paper analyses the potential impact of stock market developments on lending behaviour from different perspectives. First we scrutinize the impact of stock market movements on the banks? and on the borrowers? balance sheets. Subsequently we estimate aggregate credit supply and demand...

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Aus der Not geboren? Besondere Merkmale und Determinanten von Gründungen aus der Arbeitslosigkeit

Niefert, Michaela; Tchouvakhina, Margarita - 2006

In dieser Studie werden Gründungen aus Arbeitslosigkeit der Jahre 2003 und 2004 inklusive der seit Anfang 2003 … geförderten Ich-AGs auf repräsentativer empirischer Basis analysiert. Es zeigt sich, dass Gründungen aus Arbeitslosigkeit im … Arbeitslosigkeit ist aber nicht allein durch finanzielle Restriktionen zu erklären. Vielmehr entscheiden sich Arbeitslose oft eher …

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Deregulating Job Placement in Europe: A Microeconometric Evaluation of an Innovative Voucher Scheme in Germany

Winterhager, Henrik; Heinze, Anja; Spermann, Alexander - 2006

Job placement vouchers can be regarded as a tool to spur competition between public and private job placement activities. The German government launched this instrument in order to end the public placement monopoly and to subsidize its private competitors. We exploit very rich administrative...

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Selbständigkeit in Europa 1991 - 2003: Empirische Evidenz mit Länderdaten

Göggel, Kathrin; Gräb, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2006

In dieser Studie werden ausgewählte makroökonomische Determinanten der Anzahl der Selbständigen in fünfzehn Ländern Europas untersucht. Datenbasis sind die Arbeitskräfteerhebungen der Europäischen Union für die Jahre 1991 ? 2003. Ausgangspunkt der Studie ist der Rückgang der Anzahl der...

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