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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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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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Selektivität und direkte Wirkungen von Vermittlungsgutscheinen: Empirische Befunde aus der Einführungsphase

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Winterhager, Henrik - 2006

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht auf der Basis von Prozessdaten der Bundesagentur für Arbeit Inanspruchnahme, direkte Wirkungen und Effizienz von Vermittlungsgutscheinen, die im Zeitraum Mai 2003 bis Juni 2004, also in der Einführungsphase, von Arbeitslosen in Anspruch genommen wurden....

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Aggregate Unemployment Decreases Individual Returns to Education

Ammermüller, Andreas; Kuckulenz, Anja; Zwick, Thomas - 2006

On the basis of a theoretical model, we argue that higher aggregate unemployment affects individual returns to education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education level in a standard Mincer equation. Our results show...

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Get Training or Wait? Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed in West Germany

Osikominu, Aderonke; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Völter, Robert - 2006

Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employment effects and often it is not possible to assess whether positive long-run effects exist. Based on unique administrative data, this paper estimates the long-run differential employment effects of...

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Extended benefit entitlement periods and the duration of unemployment in West Germany

Steiner, Viktor - 1997

Germany1, as most other European countries, has been plagued by a persistently high level of long?term unemployment since the early 1980's. In contrast, long? term unemployment is much less of a problem in the United States. One potential reason for the different structure of unemployment...

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