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Making Work Pay for the Elderly Unemployed: Evaluating Alternative Policy Reforms for Germany
Haan, Peter; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
We evaluate three policy reforms targeted at older unemployed people: (i) an hourly wage subsidy, (ii) an in-work credit, and (iii) a subsidy of social security contributions on low wages. The work incentive, labour supply and welfare effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068857
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Makroökonomie : Blind Spot Gender : Erweiterung makroökonomischer Indikatoren durch eine Gender-Komponente am Beispiel der empirischen Phillips-Kurve
Holst, Elke; Barth, Denise - 2019
Dieser Beitrag möchte einen Impuls zur stärkeren Berücksichtigung von Genderaspekten in makroökonomischen Modellen geben. Am Beispiel der Philipps-Kurve geht es um die Frage, ob sich das Erwerbsverhalten von Frauen und Männern so stark voneinander unterscheidet, dass sich dies im Verlauf...
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'Marginal Employment' and the Demand for Heterogenous Labour: Empirical Evidence from a Multi-factor Labour Demand Model for Germany
Freier, Ronny; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
We develop a structural multi-factor labour demand model which distinguishes between eight labour categories including non-standard types of employment such as marginal employment. The model is estimated for both the number of workers and total working hours using a new panel data set. For...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068909
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Arbeitszeitrealitäten und Arbeitszeitwünsche in Deutschland : methodische Unterschiede ihrer Erfassung im SOEP und Mikrozensus
Holst, Elke; Bringmann, Julia - 2016
Die Debatte um Arbeitszeiten und deren Regulierung wird in der deutschen Öffentlichkeiterneut geführt. Empirische Grundlage sind dabei häufig Studien auf Basis des Mikrozensusoder des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP), die teilweise erhebliche Unterschiede in ihrenErgebnissen aufweisen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514863
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Institutionelle Determinanten der Erwerbsarbeit: Zur Notwendigkeit einer Gender-Perspektive in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Holst, Elke - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001
In this paper institutions are understood as rules of individual behavior. The focus is on the impacts of institutions … West Germany. In the background of this analysis, the influence of institutions on the allocation of resources is examined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068876
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Institutionelle Determinanten der Erwerbsarbeit : zur Notwendigkeit einer Gender-Perspektive in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Holst, Elke - 2001
In this paper institutions are understood as rules of individual behavior. The focus is on the impacts of institutions … West Germany. In the background of this analysis, the influence of institutions on the allocation of resources is examined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433982
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Gender identity and wives' labor market outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016
Sprengholz, Maximilian; Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2019
We exploit the natural experiment of German reunification in 1990 to investigate if the institutional regimes of the formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped different gender identity prescriptions of family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011995255
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Self-Employment - a Way to End Unemployment?: Empirical Evidence from German Pseudo-Panel Data
Glocker, Daniela; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
This paper contributes to the policy-relevant question whether self-employment is a way out of (long-term) unemployment …. We estimate the relationship between the entry rate into self-employment and previous (long-term) unemployment on the … measurement errors induced by the pseudo panel structure. We find that previous (long-term) unemployment significantly increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069100
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Interrelationships among locus of control and years in management and unemployment : differences by gender
Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - 2010
unemployment. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the extent to which gender differences occur in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003936664
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Imposed benefit sanctions and the unemployment-to-employment transition : the German experience
Müller, Kai-Uwe (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2008
We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people … entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine … effects diminish with the elapsed unemployment duration until a sanction is imposed. The limited use of benefit sanctions can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726098