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The impact of education on personality : evidence from a German high school reform
Dahmann, Sarah; Anger, Silke - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015
"This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students' personality traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from...
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Potenzialnutzung in Ostdeutschland : eine Analyse von Angebot und Nachfrage auf dem Arbeitsmarkt
Fuchs, Michaela; Wesling, Mirko; Weyh, Antje - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2014
"After years of declining employment and high unemployment, the situation on the East German labour market changed profoundly in the middle of the 2000s. Given the more pronounced demographic change it is expected that in East Germany the recruitment of skilled workers will become more difficult...
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Ostdeutschland 20 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall: Was war und was ist heute mit der Wirtschaft?
Brenke, Karl; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Der Artikel zeigt in den grundlegenden Zügen die Entwicklung in Ostdeutschland seit dem Beginn der Umstrukturierung auf … mit einer starken Besiedlungsdichte zusammenhängt. In Ostdeutschland ist das auch der Fall – wegen der enormen … überfälligen Abbau von Subventionen eine Neuausrichtung der Regionalförderung – und zwar nicht speziell für Ostdeutschland, sondern …
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Logib-D und die Entgeltunterschiede zwischen Männern und Frauen in deutschen Betrieben : eine Abschätzung des politischen Handlungsfeldes (Logib-D and the gender pay gaps in German...
Beblo, Miriam; Ohlert, Clemens; Wolf, Elke - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 44 (2011) 1/2, pp. 43-52
"Since 2009, the German Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ) provides a statistical tool - named Logib-D - for firms to measure their internal wage inequality voluntarily. We use our estimation model of firm-specific gender pay gaps, developed in the DFG...
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Lohnentwicklung im Lebenszyklus : eine Analyse von Ausmaß, Begründung und Heterogenität von Lohnsteigerungen (Wages over the life cycle : an empirical analysis of wage structures i...
Orlowski, Robert; Riphahn, Regina T. - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 44 (2011) 1/2, pp. 29-41
"This paper summarizes the findings of studies which investigate the determinants of wages in Germany, using data of the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP). The empirical analyses apply least squares estimates as well as the estimators developed by Altonji and Shakotko, Rev. Econ. Stud. 54, 437...
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20 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall: Arbeitslosigkeit in ostdeutschen Regionen
Blien, Uwe; Phan thi Hong, Van; Kaufmann, Klara; … - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 43 (2010) 2, pp. 125-143
"Themes of the paper are differences in unemployment rates between East and West Germany and the spatial differentiation in the East. 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall there is still a strong division between the economies and labour markets of Eastern and Western Germany. In the last...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008691824
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Erwerbskarrieren in Ostdeutschland - 20 Jahre nach der Deutschen Einheit und darüber hinaus (Labour market careers in East Germany - 20 years after reunification and beyond)
Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 43 (2010) 2, pp. 169-190
"The unemployment rate in East Germany has been almost twice as high as in West Germany since unification. At the same time, employment subject to social security contributions decreased markedly. We analyse how these developments are reflected in the careers of birth cohorts born between 1937...
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More than just one labor market cycle in Germany? : an analysis of regional unemployment data
Boysen-Hogrefe, Jens; Pape, Markus - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 44 (2011) 3, pp. 279-292
"We analyze unemployment dynamics for Germany on a regional basis by means of an approximate factor model. We first estimate the number of factors corresponding to the number of cycles. At least for the pre-'Hartz' reform data we find strong evidence for more than just one dynamic labor market...
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Employment adjustment in German firms (Betriebliche Beschäftigungsanpassung in Deutschland)
Jung, Sven - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 47 (2014) 1-2, pp. 83-106
"Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, I show that, in line with the existing literature for several countries, firms' adjustment costs for employment are characterized by a fixed and convex functional form. Furthermore, they are asymmetric with dismissal costs exceeding...
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The effectiveness of sequences of One-Euro Jobs : is it better to do more One-Euro-Jobs or to wait?
Dengler, Katharina - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2013
"Many studies have analysed the effectiveness of single active labour market programmes (ALMPs) for welfare recipients in different countries. As empirical evidence reveals that welfare recipients in Germany often participate in multiple programmes, I evaluate the sequential participation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010701768