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Die deutsche Arbeitsmarktpolitik ist im Zuge der Hartz-Reformen grundsätzlich neustrukturiert und systematisch evaluiert worden. Die vorliegenden Evaluationsberichte derersten drei Hartz-Gesetze belegen nun vielfach, welche Instrumente der aktivenArbeitsmarktpolitik sich durch ihre Wirksamkeit...
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In 2021, the Biden Administration issued mandates requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for U.S. federal employees and contractors and for some healthcare and private sector workers. Although these mandates have been subject to legal challenges and some have been halted or delayed, rigorous appraisal...
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We examine Singapore's fairly homogeneous private-housing market and show that new apartments on historical multi-century leases trade at a non-zero discount relative to property owned in perpetuity. Descriptive regressions indicate that new apartments with 825 to 986 years of tenure remaining...
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social and political costs of a GREXIT, but also of a continuing austerity policy. It proposes a reform policy fostering …
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current subsidy program underwent a major reform in 2011 that changed its key parameters: support was lowered, eligibility …-ante predictions on the post-reform effectiveness of the program are ambiguous, and knowledge about the importance of institutional … and business characteristics of participants before and after the reform and we find significant differences in terms of …
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the aggregate level, thus precluding any assessment of the overall impact of such measures. The reform of 1998 recognized …
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the implications of this reform from the perspective of the distance of municipalities from their regional administrative … capital. We show that despite fears of negative consequences for peripheral regions, the reform did not result in slower socio …
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'Marginal employment', i.e. employment at low working hours and earnings not covered bysocial security, has been gaining importance in the German economy over the past decade.Using a large newly available panel data set and statistical matching techniques, we analysethe effects of marginal...
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We use a new and exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to evaluate theemployment effects of a variety of public sponsored training programs in the early 2000s.Building on the work of Sianesi (2003, 2004), we employ propensity score matching methodsin a dynamic, multiple...
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In July 2004, the Belgian government intensified monitoring within the UnemploymentInsurance scheme. Workers claiming unemployment benefits for more than 13 months arenotified that past job-search behavior will be monitored 8 months later...
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