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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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Does labour mobility reduce disparities between regional labour markets in Germany?

Niebuhr, Annekatrin; Granato, Nadia; Haas, Anette; … - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"Differences in regional labour market conditions are still pronounced in Germany, especially between the Eastern and the Western part. Traditional neoclassical models imply that labour mobility should reduce disparities. In contrast, models that include externalities or selective migration...

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Improving retrospective life course data by combining modularized self-reports and event history calendars : experiences from a large scale survey

Drasch, Katrin; Matthes, Britta - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"Event history calendars (EHC) have proven to be a useful tool to collect retrospective autobiographic life course data. One problem is that they are only standardized to some extent. This limits their applicability in large-scale surveys. However, in such surveys a modularized retrospective...

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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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Eingliederungszuschüsse und Betriebszugehörigkeitsdauer in Westdeutschland (Western German reintegration subsidies und the length of employment at one establishment)

Ruppe, Kathi - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"Wage subsidies are a major instrument of active labor market policies in Germany. This paper analyses for West Germany, if tenure differs across individuals taking up a subsidized or unsubsidized job, respectively, during the second quarter of 2003. The study is based on process generated data...

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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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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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Job entry and the ways out of benefit receipt of young adults in Germany

Schels, Brigitte - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"The study explores the way out of benefit receipt by labour market integration of young adults in Germany. Under 25-year-olds are a target group of the German social policy. If they rely on the payment of social benefits a prompt integration into employment or training is the main priority. The...

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Design and stratification of PASS : a new panel study for research on long term unemployment

Trappmann, Mark; Christoph, Bernhard; Achatz, Juliane; … - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

IAB Discussion Paper 5/2009 Mark Trappmann Bernhard Christoph Juliane Achatz Claudia Wenzig Gerrit Müller Daniel … dialoge IAB-Discussion Paper 5/2009 2 Design and stratification of PASS A New Panel Study for Research on Long Term …) Daniel Gebhardt (IAB) Mit der Reihe „IAB-Discussion Paper“ will das Forschungsinstitut der Bundesagentur für Arbeit den …

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Effectiveness of One-Euro-Jobs: Do programme characteristics matter?

Hohmeyer, Katrin - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009

"Recent labour market reforms in Germany introduced a workfare programme called One-Euro-Jobs with roughly 700,000 means-tested benefit recipients participating per year. In programme design leeway is given to local actors to respond to regional and individual factors. The legislature has set...

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