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Founders' experience and self-employment duration : the importance of being a 'Jack-of-all-trades'. An analysis based on competing risks

Oberschachtsiek, Dirk - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008

"This paper investigates how founders' experience and professional background affect the duration of periods of self-employment, and to what extent the duration is affected by a balanced skill set in particular. In this context, an occupational choice framework based on a competing risk setting...

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Looking beyond the bridge: How temporary agency employment affects labor market outcomes

Jahn, Elke J.; Rosholm, Michael - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2010

-ployment but also analyze its effect on post-unemployment wages and job stability for unemployed Danish workers. We find evidence … intensity increases the likelihood of leaving unemployment for regular jobs. Our results show that agency employment is even …

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Minimum wages, wage dispersion and unemployment : a review on new search models

Garloff, Alfred - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008

heterogenous case theoretical results are mixed. There is no unique connection between unemployment and minimum wages, and the … market, seem to support the hypothesis that an increase in the minimum wage generally leads to an increase in unemployment as …

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Lone mothers' participation in labor market programs for means-tested benefit recipients in Germany

Zabel, Cordula - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011

lone mothers receiving means-tested unemployment benefits in Germany. Since the 2005 Hartz IV labor market policy reforms …

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Do changing institutional settings matter? : educational attainment and family related employment interruptions in Germany

Drasch, Katrin - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011

"Cross-sectional studies show that in West Germany women with different levels of educational attainment participate differently in the labor market. In this paper, I examine one potential underlying mechanism: the re-entry of mothers in the labor market after a period of inactivity. I argue...

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In-work benefits for low wage jobs : can additional income hinder labor market integration?

Krug, Gerhard - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2007

"By financially supplementing low wages, in-work benefits are an instrument of active labor market policy to encourage labor market integration of low skilled and long-term unemployed persons. The hypothesis of this paper is that the financial benefit from the state, even though increasing the...

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Do changes in regulation affect employment duration in temporary work agencies?

Antoni, Manfred; Jahn, Elke J. - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2006

"Over the past three decades Germany has repeatedly deregulated the law on temporary agency work by stepwise increasing the maximum period for hiring-out employees and allowing temporary work agencies to conclude fixed-term contracts. These reforms should have had an effect on the employment...

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Compression of morbidity and the labor supply of older people

Romeu Gordo, Laura - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2006

"This paper tests whether there is evidence of compression of morbidity using data from the American Health and Retirement Study and analyzes the effects of this on the labor supply of older people. We find younger cohorts to suffer less from functional problems than older cohorts at given ages....

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Job search via social networks : An analysis of monetary and non-monetary returns for low-skilled unemployed

Krug, Gerhard; Rebien, Martina - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011

"Using a search theoretical model, we analyse the effects of the information flow via social networks (friends, relatives and other personal contacts) by comparing monetary and non-monetary outcomes in obtaining jobs via networks versus formal methods. Propensity-score matching on survey data...

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Unemployment and occupational mobility at the beginning of employment career in Germany and the UK

Schmelzer, Paul - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011

"The beginning of the employment career is often associated with phases of unemployment. We argue that unemployment has … UK and Germany. While search and matching models argue that an unemployment phase might be used for an active job search …-based and rigid labour market in Germany creates a stigma attached to unemployment and therefore might have negative …

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