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Evaluating Continuous Training Programs Using the Generalized Propensity Score
Kluve, Jochen; Schneider, Hilmar; Uhlendorff, Arne; … - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264707
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Automation, offshoring, and the role of public policies
Schmidpeter, Bernhard; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2019
automation is reducing the job finding probability; a problem which has increased over the past years. We show that this … development is associated with increasing re-employment wages and job stability. Taken together, our findings imply a trade off … on the job finding rate but we find mixed effects in terms of post-unemployment wages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012143513
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Sons‘ Unexpected Long Term Scarring due to Fathers‘ Unemployment
Kind, Michael; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012
This study focuses on the long term effects of unemployment on subjective wellbeing in a family context for 17-24 year old sons living with at least one parent, using data from the German SOEP. As fathers enter unemployment, sons‘ subjective wellbeing is not only reduced immediately, but also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010598405
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Lags and leads in life satisfaction: a test of the baseline hypothesis
Clark, Andrew E.; Diener, Ed; Georgellis, Yannis; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
We look for evidence of habituation in twenty waves of German panel data: do individuals, after life and labour market events, tend to return to some baseline level of well-being? Although the strongest life satisfaction effect is often at the time of the event, we find significant lag and lead...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745154
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Back to baseline in Britain: adaptation in the British household panel survey
Clark, Andrew E.; Georgellis, Yannis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
We look for evidence of adaptation in wellbeing to major life events using eighteen waves of British panel data. Adaptation to marriage, divorce, birth of child and widowhood appears to be rapid and complete; this is not so for unemployment. These findings are remarkably similar to those in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126217
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Clash of Career and Family - Fertility Decisions after Job Displacement
Del Bono, Emilia; Weber, Andrea Maria; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2008
consequence of job displacement. Using an event study approach we compare the birth rates of displaced women with those of women … unaffected by job loss after establishing the pre-displacement comparability of these groups. Our results reveal that job … slows down after the birth of a child and all specific human capital is destroyed upon job loss. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277081
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Sons' Unexpected Long Term Scarring due to Fathers' Unemployment
Kind, Michael; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2012
This study focuses on the long term eff ects of unemployment on subjective wellbeing in a family context for 17-24 year old sons living with at least one parent, using data from the German SOEP. As fathers enter unemployment, sons' subjective wellbeing is not only reduced immediately, but also 5...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289818
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The long-term labor market effects of parental unemployment
Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2020
I investigate the impact of parental unemployment on children's educational attainment and long-run labor market outcomes in Austria. I find that parental unemployment shortly before an important educational decision by parents for their children lowers a child's probability of holding a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290754
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Clash of Career and Family - Fertility Decisions after Job Displacement
Bono, Emilia Del; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2008
consequence of job displacement. Using an event study approach we compare the birth rates of displaced women with those of women … unaffected by job loss after establishing the pre-displacement comparability of these groups. Our results reveal that job … slows down after the birth of a child and all specific human capital is destroyed upon job loss. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005738710
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Training + Temp Work = Stepping Stone? – Evaluating an Innovative Activation Program for Disadvantaged Youths
Kluve, Jochen; Ehlert, Christoph; Schaffner, Sandra - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011
While high rates of youth unemployment are a severe problem in most European countries, the program evaluation literature shows that disadvantaged youths constitute a group that is particularly difficult to assist effectively. As innovative measures are thus needed, we evaluate a German pilot...
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