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This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital … contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two …, we find that wages are lower for job changers for the group of training participants, so wages decrease when trained …
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comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive …
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lifecycle and attenuation bias a novel sampling procedure is developed and applied to the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP …
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proposals to reform social welfare in the recent German policy debate. We analyse a specific reform proposal with the following … effects of this welfare reform proposal are simulated on the basis of an econometrically estimated partialequilibrium labour … expenditures may be substantial, although the expected labour supply and employment effects of this reform are much smaller than is …
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This paper empirically analyzes the distribution of unemployment durations in West- Germany before and after the changes during the mid 1980s in the maximum entitlement periods for unemployment benefits for elderly unemployed. The analysis is based on the comprehensive IAB employment subsample...
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duration of unemployment. Empirical results for the reform of the unemployment compensation system in Germany during the 1980s … unemployment is not directly observed. For this reason we bound the reform effect on unemployment duration over different … parametric model assumptions. We identify a systematic increase in unemployment duration in response to the reform in samples …
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We compare two options of integrating discrete working time choice of heterogenous households into a general equilibrium model. The first, known from the literature, produces household heterogeneity through a working time preference parameter. We contrast this with a model that directly...
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vorliegenden Arbeit werden die Auswirkungen dieser Reform auf Übergänge von Beschäftigung in Arbeitslosigkeit und Verweildauern in … der 54-56jährigen nach der Reform abnimmt. Außerdem ist eine Verkürzung der Verweildauern in Arbeitslosigkeit nach der … Reform zu beobachten. Die 54-56jährigen unterscheiden sich nach der Reform nicht mehr von der Gruppe der 52-53jährigen …
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In recent years, coinciding with the discussion led in many OECD countries, Germany has started to contract out placement services for the unemployed to private agencies. Whereas in the Netherlands and Australia the whole system of employment services was reorganized at once, making an...
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vorliegenden Arbeit werden die Auswirkungen dieser Reform auf Übergänge von Beschäftigung in Arbeitslosigkeit und Verweildauern in … der 54-56jährigen nach der Reform abnimmt. Au?erdem wird eine Verkürzung der Dauer der Arbeitslosigkeit nach der Reform … beobachtet. Die 54-56jÄahrigen unterscheiden sich nach der Reform nicht mehr von der Gruppe der 52-53jÄahrigen. Insbesondere …
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