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Fat Chance! Obesity and the Transition from Unemployment to Employment
Caliendo, Marco; Lee, Wang-Sheng - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
applicants in Germany get treated or behave differently from non-obese applicants. Based on two waves of rich survey data from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147303
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Fat chance!: Obesity and the transition from unemployment to employment
Caliendo, Marco; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2011
applicants in Germany get treated or behave differently from non-obese applicants. Based on two waves of rich survey data from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278446
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Drinking Is Different! Examining the Role of Locus of Control for Alcohol Consumption
Caliendo, Marco; Hennecke, Juliane - 2020
Unhealthy behavior can be extremely costly from a micro- and macroeconomic perspective and exploring the determinants of such behavior is highly important from an economist's point of view. We examine whether locus of control (LOC) can explain alcohol consumption as an important domain of health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269951
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Side Effects of Labor Market Policies
Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2020
Labor market policy tools such as training and sanctions are commonly used to help bring workers back to work. By analogy to medical treatments, the individual exposure to these tools may have side effects. We study effects on health using individual-level population registers on labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322645
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The short-run employment effects of the German minimum wage reform
Caliendo, Marco; Fedorets, Alexandra; Preuß, Malte; … - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 53 (2018), pp. 46-62
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130031
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Earnings exemptions for unemployed workers : the relationship between marginal employment, unemployment duration and job quality
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Uhlendorff, Arne - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 42 (2016), pp. 177-193
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011703659
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Unobservable, but unimportant? : the relevance of usually unobserved variables for the evaluation of labor market policies
Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Mitnik, Oscar A. - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 46 (2017), pp. 14-25
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951528
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Did the minimum wage reduce the gender wage gap in Germany?
Caliendo, Marco; Wittbrodt, Linda - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 78 (2022), pp. 1-11
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014234254
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Start-up subsidies in East Germany: finally, a policy that works?
Caliendo, Marco - 2008
Germany in the last decade. The effectiveness of the most important programs (in terms of participants and spending) such as … effectiveness of two start-up programs in East Germany. Our findings even though partly preliminary - are rather promising, showing … a labor market with structural problems such as the one in East Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268805
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The Employment Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany : A Microeconometric Evaluation
Caliendo, Marco; Hujer, Reinhard; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2005
In this paper we evaluate the employment effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany …. Job creation schemes are a major element of active labour market policy in Germany and are targeted at long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262224