This paper estimates the impact of training incidence and duration on employment transitions accounting for the endogeneity of program participation and duration. We specify a very flexible bivariate random effects probit model for employment and training participation and we use Bayesian Markov...

This paper estimates the impact of training incidence and duration on employment transitions accounting for the endogeneity of program participation and duration. We specify a very flexible bivariate random effects probit model for employment and training participation and we use Bayesian Markov...

As the first, substantive contribution, this paper revisits the effectiveness of two widely used public sponsored training programs, the first one focusing on intensive occupational training and the second one on short-term activation and job entry. We use an exceptionally rich administrative...

As the first, substantive contribution, this paper revisits the effectiveness of two widely used public sponsored training programs, the first one focusing on intensive occupational training and the second one on short-term activation and job entry. We use an exceptionally rich administrative...

Auch wenn zuletzt wieder mehr neue Ausbildungsverträge geschlossen wurden und die Nachfrage nach einer dualen Ausbildung gestiegen ist, steht der deutsche Ausbildungsmarkt weiter vor großen Herausforderungen. Mit den Daten des IAB-Betriebspanels 2023 wird in diesem Kurzbericht untersucht, wie...

Kurzarbeit wurde in der Corona-Krise in bisher nicht gekannten Umfang genutzt und hat sich als zentraler Rettungsschirm für den Arbeitsmarkt erwiesen. Entsprechend groß war das öffentliche Interesse an zeitnahen Daten, die zunächst nur über Sondererhebungen in den Betrieben zu bekommen...

Economists increasingly recognise the importance of personality traits for socioeconomic outcomes, but little is known about the stability of these traits over the life cycle. Existing empirical contributions typically focus on age patterns and disregard cohort and period influences. This paper...

This study re-estimates the employment effects of training programs for the unemployed using exogenous variation in participation caused by budget rules in Germany in the 1980s and early 1990s, resulting in the infamous "end-of-year spending". In addition to estimating complier effects with...

This paper investigates the changes in the German wage structure for full-time working males from 1999 to 2006. Our analysis builds on the task-based approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany, and also accounts for job complexity. We perform a...