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The long-term impact of job displacement in Germany during the 1982 recession on earnings, income, and employment

Schmieder, Johannes; Wachter, Till von; Bender, Stefan - 2010

We show that workers displaced from their stable jobs during mass-layoffs in 1982 recession in Germany suffered permanent earnings losses of 10-15% lasting at least 15 years. These estimates are obtained using data and methodology comparable to similar studies for the United States. Exploiting...

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Determinants of lifetime unemployment : a micro data analysis with censored quantile regressions

Schmillen, Achim; Möller, Joachim - 2010

Arbeitslosigkeit für die westdeutschen Geburtskohorten 1950-1954 zu beantworten. Wir finden, dass Lebensarbeitslosigkeit sehr ungleich …

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The effects of unemployment insurance on labor supply and search outcomes : regression discontinuity estimates from Germany

Schmieder, Johannes; Wachter, Till von; Bender, Stefan - 2010

This paper evaluates the impact of large changes in the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) in different economic environments on labour supply, job matches, and search behaviour. We show that differences in eligibility thresholds by exact age give rise to a valid regression discontinuity...

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Do small labor market entry cohorts reduce unemployment?

Garloff, Alfred; Pohl, Carsten; Schanne, Norbert - 2011

Arbeitslosigkeit in Westdeutschland. Von einem theoretischen Standpunkt aus kann eine Abnahme der Kohortengröße einerseits – in … Umkehrung des Kohortenverdrängungseffektes – zu einem Abbau der Arbeitslosigkeit führen. Andererseits kann der Eintritt kleiner … Kohorten auch dazu führen, dass Firmen überproportional ihr Angebot an Arbeitsplätzen reduzieren, so dass die Arbeitslosigkeit …

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Revisiting German labour market reform effects : a panel data analysis for occupational labour markets

Stops, Michael - 2015

There is an ongoing discussion that centres on the German labour market reforms (2003- 2005) and the role of these reforms in boosting the German economy. Considering that one of the main objectives of the reforms was to improve the matching process on the labour market, I use rich,...

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Offshoring of medium-skill jobs, polarization, and productivity effect : implications for wages and low-skill unemployment

Vallizadeh, Ehsan; Muysken, Joan; Ziesemer, Thomas - 2015

We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task-assignment model with skill heterogeneity. Exact conditions for the following insights are derived. The distributional effect of offshoring (high-) low-skill-intensive tasks is similar to...

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