New Publications

Economics Letters: "Heterogeneity in unemployment state dependence"

29.09.2015 -

New publication by Alexander Plum and Sara Ayllón:

By applying a heterogeneous slope model, Alexander Plum and Sara Ayllón (University of Girona) show that unemployment state dependence varies across workers. Assuming a homogeneous effect of past unemployment on the risk of staying unemployed underestimates the scarring effect of unemployment in the majority of European countries analyzed.

The publication can be found here.

Economics Letters

CESifo Working Paper Series: "The Subjective Well-Being of Workfare Participants"

25.06.2015 -

New working paper by Andreas Knabe, Ronnie Schöb and Joachim Weimann:

In a new working paper, Andreas Knabe, Ronnie Schöb and Joachim Weimann shed more light on the subjective well-being of workfare participants and compare it to the well-being of unemployed and employed workers. Using data from a self-conducted survey among participants in workfare schemes in Germany, two subdimensions of subjective well-being life satisfaction and emotional well-being are separately examined to obtain a more comprehensive view of the subjective impact of workfare jobs. The results show that the life satisfaction of workfare participants is between that of employed and unemployed people. More surprisingly, perhaps, their emotional well-being is the highest of these three groups.

 

The working paper can be found here.

 

The Stata Journal: "Simulated multivariate random-effects probit models for unbalanced panels"

30.06.2014 -

New publication by Alexander Plum:

This article develops a method for implementing a simulated multivariate random-effects probit model for unbalanced panels (with gaps) and illustrates the model by using artificial data. Halton draws generated by mdraws are used to simulate multivariate normal probabilities with the mvnp() egen function. The estimator can be easily adjusted, for example, to allow for autocorrelated errors. The advantages of this simulated estimation, when compared with existing commands such as redpace, are high accuracy and improved stability.

The publication can be found here.

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CESifo Working Papers: "Looking Back in Anger? Retirement and Unemployment Scarring"

08.05.2014 -

New discussion paper by Andreas Knabe, Clemens Hetschko and Ronnie Schöb:

In a new discussion paper, Andreas Knabe (together with Clemens Hetschko and Ronnie Schöb, Freie Universität Berlin) examines whether unemployment leads to long-lasting losses in life satisfaction even after becoming reemployed that are not related to income losses (scarring effects). By examining the transition of unemployed persons to retirement, it is possible to separate the scars caused by future labor market uncertainty from genuine scars purely related to past experiences. The study finds evidence for such genuine unemployment scars for people who were unemployed for the first time in their life directly prior to retirement, but not for people with earlier unemployment experiences.

 

The discussion paper can be found here.

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Oxford Economic Papers: "Subsidizing extra jobs: promoting employment by taming the unions"

12.11.2013 -

New publication by Andreas Knabe and Ronnie Schöb:

Wage subsidies can help to create employment and reduce unemployment by lowering labor costs and increasing labor demand. A problem of wage subsidies is, however, that they might give rise to higher wage claims by labor unions. The resulting increase in labor costs would reduce the initially positive employment effect of the wage subsidies. In a recent research article, Andreas Knabe and Ronnie Schöb (FU Berlin) show that the shifting of the subsidy into higher wages can be reduced if the subsidy is granted only for marginal, i.e. additional, employment. With this restriction, the employment-creation effect of wage subsidies can be maintained.

The publication can be found here.

Oxford Economic Papers

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