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Unemployment Benefits and Unemployment Rates of Low-Skilled and Elder Workers in West Germany: A Search Equilibrium Approach
No full textApproach Author & abstract Download 16 References 1 Citations Related works & more Corrections Author Listed: Launov, Andrey ([email protected]) (University of Kent) Wolff, Joachim ([email protected]) (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg) Klasen, Stephan ([email protected]) (University of Göttingen) Registered: Stephan Klasen Abstract In this paper we investigate whether the extension of the entitlement to unemployment benefits in the mid 80s can explain the increase in the unemployment rates of unskilled and elder workers in western Germany. To answer this question we estimate a version of the Burdett-Mortensen search equilibrium model and analyze how workers’ search behaviour responded to these reforms. We try both nonparametric and fully-parametric estimation methods and identify the cases in which the nonparametric approach cannot be applied. We find that the entitlement reforms are largely responsible for the increase of unemployment among unskilled workers
Unemployment Benefits and Unemployment Rates of Low-Skilled and Elder Workers in West Germany: A Search Equilibrium Approach
No full textApproach Author & abstract Download 16 References 1 Citations Related works & more Corrections Author Listed: Launov, Andrey ([email protected]) (University of Kent) Wolff, Joachim ([email protected]) (Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg) Klasen, Stephan ([email protected]) (University of Göttingen) Registered: Stephan Klasen Abstract In this paper we investigate whether the extension of the entitlement to unemployment benefits in the mid 80s can explain the increase in the unemployment rates of unskilled and elder workers in western Germany. To answer this question we estimate a version of the Burdett-Mortensen search equilibrium model and analyze how workers’ search behaviour responded to these reforms. We try both nonparametric and fully-parametric estimation methods and identify the cases in which the nonparametric approach cannot be applied. We find that the entitlement reforms are largely responsible for the increase of unemployment among unskilled workers
"Wenn Ihnen der liebe Gott zwei Zehntelsekunden oder das 'Mhm' schenken würde, dann könnten Sie die Welt verändern." Stephan Wolff im Gespräch mit René Salomon
Get PDFStephan WOLFF zeichnet in diesem Interview die Entwicklung seines eigenen theoretischen und methodischen Vorgehens und akademischen Werdegangs nach. Dabei wird deutlich, dass es WOLFF gelungen ist, die Ethnomethodologie als eine äußerst gewinnbringende, aber eben auch flexible Haltung zu betrachten. Dies ermöglichte ihm, auf verschiedene sozial- und gesellschaftstheoretische Angebote zurückzugreifen und diese durch eine ethnomethodologische Grundhaltung so zu operationalisieren, dass sie ethnografische Studien in verschiedensten Feldern informieren konnten. Stephan WOLFF schaffte es dadurch wie kaum ein anderer deutscher Soziologe, den ethnomethodologischen Ansatz für andere Fachdisziplinen fruchtbar zu machen und in diese hineinzutragen. Das Interview bietet einen Einblick in die Situation der bundesrepublikanischen geisteswissenschaftlichen Theorie- und Forschungslandschaft seit den 1970er Jahren und zeichnet detailliert die Rezeptionsgeschichte der Ethnomethodologie nach. Dabei wird deutlich, wie schwerfällig die deutsche Soziologie auf die Ethnomethodologie reagierte und wie sehr eine Rezeptionsgeschichte von dem Engagement einzelner Personen abhängen kann
Die Ambivalenz von Institutionalisierung und De-Institutionalisierung in der sozialen Arbeit in Geschichte und Gegenwart
Get PDFDer Beitrag von Stephan Wolff widmet sich der Analyse des 'Wechselspiels' von De-Institutionalisierungs- und Institutionalisierungsprozessen vor dem Hintergrund der neo-institutionalistischen Organisationstheorie und untersucht diese Prozesse anhand der historischen Verläufe der Forderung nach Alternativen zu anstaltsförmigen Praxen der Unterbringung, Behandlung und Kontrolle im Bereich der Psychiatrie und der Behindertenhilfen, die als praktische Kritik De-Institutionalisierung auf Ihre Fahnen geschrieben hatten. Dabei werden insbesondere die Ambivalenzen der De-Institutionalisierung als auch das pfadabhängige Beharrungsvermögen von Organisationen gegen Versuche der De-Institutionalisierung herausgearbeitet
Ask questions, get sales : close the deak and create long-term relationships / Stephan Schiffman.
No full textIncludes index.v, 168 pages ;In Ask Questions, Get Sales, the author and sales guru Stephan Schiffman helps readers boost their careers to the gold-medal level by teaching them how to strengthen their questioning skills during the sales process. The premise is simple yet effective: In order to be successful, salespeople need to change their mindset from "need-orientated" to "do-orientated". The message of the book centers around six core "do" questions: What do you do? How do you do it? When and where do you do it? Why do you do it that way? Who do you do it with? How can we help you do it better? With this indispensable guide in their briefcase, salespeople will have information at the ready to score big sales over the short term and the long term
Daniela Böhringer / Ute Karl / Hermann Müller / Wolfgang Schröer / Stephan Wolff: Den Fall bearbeitbar halten, Gespräche in Jobcentern mit jungen Menschen. Opladen & Farmington Hills: Verlag Barbara Budrich 2012 [Rezension]
Get PDFRezension von: Daniela Böhringer / Ute Karl / Hermann Müller / Wolfgang Schröer / Stephan Wolff: Den Fall bearbeitbar halten, Gespräche in Jobcentern mit jungen Menschen, Opladen & Farmington Hills: Verlag Barbara Budrich 2012 (265 S.; ISBN 978-3-86649-451-0
Measuring Vulnerability to Poverty Using Long-Term Panel Data
No full textMeasuring Vulnerability to Poverty Using Long-Term Panel Data Author & abstract Download & other version 16 References 4 Citations Related works & more Corrections Author Listed: Katja Landau (Georg-August-University Göttingen) Stephan Klasen (Georg-August-University Göttingen) Walter Zucchini (Georg-August-University Göttingen) Registered: Stephan Klasen Abstract We investigate the accuracy of ex ante assessments of vulnerability to income poverty using cross-sectional data and panel data. We use long-term panel data from Germany and apply di fferent regression models, based on household covariates and previous-year equivalence income, to classify a household as vulnerable or not. Predictive performance is assessed using the Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC), which takes account of false positive as well as true positive rates. Estimates based on cross-sectional data are much less accurate than those based on panel data, but for Germany, the accuracy of vulnerability predictions is limited even when panel data are used. In part this low accuracy is due to low poverty incidence and high mobility in and out of poverty
Measuring Vulnerability to Poverty Using Long-Term Panel Data
No full textMeasuring Vulnerability to Poverty Using Long-Term Panel Data Author & abstract Download & other version 16 References 4 Citations Related works & more Corrections Author Listed: Katja Landau (Georg-August-University Göttingen) Stephan Klasen (Georg-August-University Göttingen) Walter Zucchini (Georg-August-University Göttingen) Registered: Stephan Klasen Abstract We investigate the accuracy of ex ante assessments of vulnerability to income poverty using cross-sectional data and panel data. We use long-term panel data from Germany and apply di fferent regression models, based on household covariates and previous-year equivalence income, to classify a household as vulnerable or not. Predictive performance is assessed using the Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC), which takes account of false positive as well as true positive rates. Estimates based on cross-sectional data are much less accurate than those based on panel data, but for Germany, the accuracy of vulnerability predictions is limited even when panel data are used. In part this low accuracy is due to low poverty incidence and high mobility in and out of poverty
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