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Similar to many other European countries, Germany's unemployment policy made a paradigm shift towards activation policy …
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Similar to numerous other European countries, Germany's unemployment policy went through a paradigm shift towards …
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This paper reviews the dramatic and widely noted developments in the German labor market in the past decade and surveys the most plausible reasons for these changes. Alternative hypotheses are compared and contrasted. I argue that the labor market reforms associated with the Agenda 2010 – the...
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in Germany. Our findings are consistent with a stable demand for labor, especially in western Germany, implying that …
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This paper proposes a new approach to evaluate the macroeconomic effects of the Hartz IV reform in Germany, which … was a major driver for the decline of Germany's unemployment and that partial and equilibrium effect where of equal …
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reforms between 2003 and 2005. We focus on the quality of new jobs started between 1998 and 2010 in West Germany in terms of …
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The number of unemployed workers in Germany decreased dramatically from its peak in February 2005 at over 5.2 million …Seit ihrem Höhepunkt im Februar 2005 sank die Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland innerhalb von drei Jahren von 5 …
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We use linked longitudinal data on employers and employees to estimate how the 2003-2005 Hartz reforms affected the wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage effects into components attributable to selection on...
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Dissertationsschrift werden zunächst Lohnrisiken analysiert, um dann das Altersarmutsrisiko in Deutschland aufzuzeigen. Nach einer … Qualifikationsniveau. In Kapitel 4 wird das Altersarmutsrisiko in Deutschland untersucht. In einem Mikrosimulationsmodell werden die … wage risks and shows the risk of old-age poverty in Germany. After a short introduction, the effects of income and …
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participation, inequality and welfare in Germany. Unemployment fell because the Hartz IV reform induced a large fraction of the long …. Overall we find that Germany increased welfare as unemployment fell. …
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