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The so-called Hartz reform has introduced fundamental changes for publicly sponsored training in Germany. This concerns …
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place in Germany, towards a more Anglo-American system in which a large proportion of transfers are paid to the working poor. …
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It is often argued that the high level of welfare claims in Germany causes little incentive for workers with low …
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In this paper we develop a model to consistently estimate the intertemporal labor supply behavior on the extensive margin (participation decision) and the intensive margin (working hours decision). In this framework we distinguish between voluntary non-participation and involuntary unemployment...
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This paper assesses the dynamics of treatment effects arising from variation in the duration of training. We use German administrative data that have the extraordinary feature that the amount of treatment varies continuously from 10 days to 395 days (i.e. 13 months). This feature allows us to...
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administrative data set, we apply matching and regression methods to measure the effect of the Hartz reform in Germany, which … important type of training in Germany, we find a slightly positive impact of the reform. Our decomposition results suggest that …
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West Germany, we find strong true state dependence in all three states. Moreover, compared to wage employment, non …
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This study analyzes the treatment effects of public training programs for the unemployed in Germany. Based on …
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In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income during job search by taking up …
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assumptions which are consistent with economic theory, e.g. log-normally distributed consumption preferences, the Bayesian method …
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