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    <title>Job search via social networks: An analysis of monetary and non-monetary returns for low-skilled unemployed</title>
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    <description>Title: Job search via social networks: An analysis of monetary and non-monetary returns for low-skilled unemployed
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Krug, Gerhard; Rebien, Martina
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Using a search theoretical model, we analyse the effects of the information flow via social networks (friends, relatives and other personal contacts) by comparing monetary and non-monetary outcomes in obtaining jobs via networks versus formal methods. Propensity-score matching on survey data from the low-skilled unemployed is used to identify causal effects. The analysis takes into account unobserved heterogeneity by applying Rosenbaum bounds. Because of the potential ambiguity when comparing outcomes in accepted jobs, we also examine the effectiveness of job searches using social networks as a source of information compared to not using networks. We find no evidence for causal effects on monetary outcomes and, at best, only weak evidence for effects on non-monetary job outcomes.</description>
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    <title>Do small labor market entry cohorts reduce unemployment?</title>
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    <description>Title: Do small labor market entry cohorts reduce unemployment?
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Garloff, Alfred; Pohl, Carsten; Schanne, Norbert
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: In this paper we study the effect of small labor market entry cohorts on (un)employment in Western Germany. From a theoretical point of view, decreasing cohort sizes may on the one hand reduce unemployment due to inverse cohort crowding or on the other hand increase unemployment if companies reduce jobs disproportionately. Consequently, the actual effect of cohort shrinking on (un)employment is an empirical question. We analyze the relationship between (un)employment and cohort sizes using a long panel of Western German labor market regions. In this context, we account for both the likely endogeneity of cohort size due to migration of the (young) workforce across regions using lagged births as instruments as well as for temporal and spatial autocorrelation. Our results provide good news for the (Western) German labor market: small entry cohorts are indeed likely to decrease the overall unemployment rate and thus to improve the situation of job seekers. Accordingly, with regard to the employment rate we find that it is positively affected by a decrease in the youth share.</description>
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    <title>Low-wage jobs - stepping stones or just bad signals?</title>
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    <description>Title: Low-wage jobs - stepping stones or just bad signals?
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Mosthaf, Alexander
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: This study investigates how the effects of low-wage employment and non-employment on wage prospects vary depending on qualification. We apply dynamic multinomial logit models with random effects and include interactions of the lagged labor market state with qualification to estimate heterogeneity in state dependence. We find that low-wage jobs are stepping stones to high-paid jobs for low qualified workers. In contrast, the chances of workers with a university degree to obtain a high-paid job are the same when being low-paid or non-employed (whereas their risk of non-employment is lower when having a low-paid job). Furthermore, our results suggest that for workers with university degree low-wage jobs are associated with negative signals.</description>
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    <title>Typenbildung mit quantitativen und qualitativen Daten: Methodologische Überlegungen</title>
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    <description>Title: Typenbildung mit quantitativen und qualitativen Daten: Methodologische Überlegungen
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Promberger, Markus
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: In diesem Essay wird gezeigt, dass die Verschränkung von qualitativen und quantitativen Methoden im Forschungsprozess nicht nur durch das Zählen von Wörtern in qualitativen Dokumenten, durch Exemplifikation von Statistiken mit Einzelfallstudien, durch 'hypothesengenerierende' Explorationsstudien oder ähnliches geschehen kann. Vielmehr stellt die Typenbildung einen Schlüsselschritt für die Genese konvergenter Befunde aus beiden methodischen Richtungen dar. Der Aufsatz skizziert eine wissenschaftstheoretische Begründung hierfür, diskutiert gelungene Beispiele, erörtert Gründe für deren Seltenheit und zeigt Grundbedingungen für den Erfolg dieser Vorgehensweise auf.</description>
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