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Arbeitsmarktpolitische Maßnahmen und ihre Evaluierung : eine Bestandsaufnahme

Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000

Germany, relatively little is known about their actual impact. To the contrary, past evaluation efforts typically failed to … intervention. This paper argues that Germany lags clearly behind the current evaluation practice of other advanced economies, and …

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Escaping the unemployment trap : the case of East Germany

Merkl, Christian (contributor); … - 2008 - Rev. version

-productivity "trap," through the attrition of skills and work habits. We develop and calibrate a model along these lines for East Germany … are present. -- Labor market ; labor market traps ; calibration ; East Germany …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003775079

Escaping the unemployment trap : the case of East Germany

Merkl, Christian (contributor); … - 2007

-productivity "trap," through the attrition of skills and work habits. We develop and calibrate a model along these lines for East Germany … are present. -- Labor markets ; labor market traps ; calibration ; East Germany …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003414301

Escaping the unemployment trap : the case of East Germany

Merkl, Christian (contributor); … - 2008

persistence versus relatively high microeconomic labor market flow numbers. We calibrate the model for East Germany and examine … are present. -- Labor market ; labor market trap ; East Germany …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003758672

Keine Notwendigkeit einer Reform des Gesetzes zur Förderung der Stabilität und des Wachstums der Wirtschaft

Michaelis, Henrike; Elstner, Steffen; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2015

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Active labor market policy in Germany : is there a successful policy strategy?

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Schneider, Hilmar - 2002

Each year Germany and many other developed economies spend tens of billions of Euros on active measures of employment … offices in Germany. To this end, we analyze ALMP in Germany in a spatially augmented regression framework. Our results suggest …

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Comparing the effectiveness of employment subsidies

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2010 - October 2010 (this final and revised version)

This paper provides a theoretical and quantitative analysis of various types of wellknown employment subsidies. Two important questions are addressed: (i) How should employment subsidies be targeted? (ii) How large should the subsidies be? We consider measures involving targeting workers with...

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Hartz IV and the decline of German unemployment : a macroeconomic evaluation

Hochmuth, Brigitte; Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian; … - 2019

This paper proposes a new approach to evaluate the macroeconomic effects of the Hartz IV reform in Germany, which … was a major driver for the decline of Germany's unemployment and that partial and equilibrium effect where of equal …

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The German labor market in the Great Recession : shocks and institutions

Gehrke, Britta; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian - 2017

This paper analyzes Germany's unusual labor market experience during the Great Recession. We estimate a general … equilibrium model with a detailed labor market block for postunification Germany. This allows us to disentangle the role of …

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Discretionary measures of active labor market policy : the German employment promotion reform in perspective

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000

recent studies analyze the impact of measures of employment promotion for the case of Germany, no comparable study exists on …

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