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Short-term training variety for welfare recipients: the effects of different training types

Kopf, Eva - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"Since 2005, jobless employable individuals have to be available for the labour market with various activation programmes helping them. One major programme is short-term training teaching certain skills or assisting in job search. However, little is known about the effectiveness of such a short...

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Fixing the leak: Unemployment incidence before and after the 2006 reform of unemployment benefits in Germany

Dlugosz, Stephan; Stephan, Gesine; Wilke, Ralf A. - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"From 2002 - 2004, the German government passed several laws that curtailed the generosity of the unemployment compensation system. One of the most ambitious changes was a considerable reduction in unemployment benefit entitlement lengths for older unemployed, which was effective during 2006 and...

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Industrial clusters and economic integration : theoretic concepts and an application to the European Metropolitan Region Nuremberg

Litzel, Nicole; Möller, Joachim - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"Economic integration typically goes along with disintegration of production through outsourcing and offshoring (Feenstra 1998). As horizontal and vertical links between firms become more and more pronounced, value chains within regions are increasingly organized by production and innovation...

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Employer wage subsidies and wages in Germany : some evidence from individual data

Stephan, Gesine - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

IAB Discussion Paper 9/2009 Gesine Stephan Employer wage subsidies and wages in Germany Some evidence from individual … Gesine Stephan (IAB and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) Mit der Reihe „IAB-Discussion Paper“ will das Forschungsinstitut … Forschungsergebnissen über das Internet soll noch vor Drucklegung Kritik angeregt und Qualität gesichert werden. The “IAB-Discussion Paper …

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Disparities, persistence and dynamics of regional unemployment rates in Germany

Kunz, Marcus - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"The paper shows that the distribution of regional unemployment rates in Germany exhibits strong persistent behaviour. Furthermore, panel unit root tests and autoregressive fixed effects models indicate that regional unemployment rates display conditional rather than unconditional convergence....

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Fehlende Daten beim Record Linkage von Prozess- und Befragungsdaten : ein empirischer Vergleich ausgewählter Missing Data Techniken (Missing data in the record linkage of process and survey data : An empirical comparison of selected missing data techniques)

Krug, Gerhard - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"To compare different missing data techniques, in this paper I use a survey where participants were among other things asked permission for combining the survey with administrative data (record linkage). For those who refuse their permission I set their survey answers to missing, creating...

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They are even larger! More (on) puzzling labor market volatilities

Gartner, Hermann; Merkl, Christian; Rothe, Thomas - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market at the business cycle frequency. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, the labor market tightness and vacancies) divided by the...

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Do more placement officers lead to lower unemployment? : evidence from Germany

Hainmueller, Jens; Hofmann, Barbara; Krug, Gerhard; … - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"In this paper we examine the effect of a pilot project of the German Federal Employment Agency, where in 14 German local employment offices the caseload (number of unemployed per caseworker) was significantly reduced. Since the participating local offices were not chosen at random, we have to...

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What makes a 'jack-of-all-trades'?

Oberschachtsiek, Dirk - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"This paper addresses the 'Jack-of-all-Trades' hypothesis, which presumes that it is individuals' variety of competencies/experience that drives entrepreneurship instead of their level of productivity (Lazear, 2005). The analysis focuses on two related dimensions of this variety argument: taste...

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Sources for regional unemployment disparities in Germany : lagged adjustment processes, exogenous shocks or both?

Kunz, Marcus - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"The paper analyses movements in the unemployment rate of West German districts in the period 1992-2004 by the chain reaction theory of unemployment (CRT). The estimations show that unemployment movements are generated together by lagged adjustment processes and by exogenous shocks. We find that...

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