Elke J. Jahn

Institute for Employment Research (IAB)

Regensburger Str. 104

Nuremberg, 90478

Germany

University of Bayreuth

Bayreuth, 95447

Germany

IZA Institute of Labor Economics

P.O. Box 7240

Bonn, D-53072

Germany

  • Institute for Employment Research (IAB)

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1.

Looking Beyond the Bridge: How Temporary Agency Employment Affects Labor Market Outcomes

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4973
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 29 Jun 2010
Elke J. Jahn and Michael Rosholm
Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and Aarhus University - Department of Economics
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temporary agency employment, stepping stone, employment stability, wages

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Migration and the Wage Curve: A Structural Approach to Measure the Wage and Employment Effects of Migration

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3423
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 03 Nov 2008
Herbert Brücker and Elke J. Jahn
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
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migration, wage curve, labor demand, panel data

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Is There Monopsonistic Discrimination Against Immigrants? First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6472
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 14 Apr 2012
Boris Hirsch and Elke J. Jahn
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
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monopsony, native-immigrant wage differential, discrimination, Germany

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Do Changes in Regulation Affect Employment Duration in Temporary Work Agencies?

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2343
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 17 Oct 2006
Manfred Antoni and Elke J. Jahn
Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
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temporary agency work, regulation, labor law, duration analysis, hazard rate models

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Contracting Out Temporary Help Services in Germany

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 1580
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 26 Nov 2005
Elke J. Jahn and Wolfgang Ochel
Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and University of Munich - Ifo Institute for Economic Research
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contracting out, quasi-markets, temporary agency work, Personnel Service

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What Drives the Demand for Temporary Agency Workers?

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What Drives the Demand for Temporary Agency Workers?

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5333
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 29 Nov 2010
Elke J. Jahn and Jan Bentzen
Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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business cycle, labor law, temporary agency employment, regulation

What Drives the Demand for Temporary Agency Workers?

LABOUR, Vol. 26, Issue 3, pp. 341-355, 2012
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 17 Aug 2012
Elke J. Jahn and Jan Bentzen
Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Do Neighbors Help Finding a Job? Social Networks and Labor Market Outcomes after Plant Closures

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Do Neighbors Help Finding a Job? Social Networks and Labor Market Outcomes after Plant Closures

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 08 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2016
Elke J. Jahn and Michael Neugart
Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and Technische Universität Darmstadt
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social networks, job search, neighborhood, employment, wages, plant closures

Do Neighbors Help Finding a Job? Social Networks and Labor Market Outcomes after Plant Closures

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10480
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 22 Jan 2017
Elke J. Jahn and Michael Neugart
Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and Technische Universität Darmstadt
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social networks, job search, neighborhood, employment, wages, plant closures

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Contractual Employment Protection and the Scarring Risk of Unemployment

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1813
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 07 Nov 2005
Elke J. Jahn and Thomas Wagner
Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and University of Applied Sciences Nurnberg
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scarring effect of unemployment, contractual employment protection, guaranteed employment contract, severance pay contract, implicit contract, moral hazard, prudence

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Do Changes in Regulation Affect Temporary Agency Workers' Job Satisfaction?

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8803
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 14 Feb 2015
Henna Nivalainen, Elke J. Jahn and Christine Singer
University of Jyväskylä, Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and Government of the Federal Republic of Germany - Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
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temporary agency employment, deregulation, job satisfaction

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Reassessing the Wage Penalty for Temps in Germany

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3663
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 27 Aug 2008
Elke J. Jahn
Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
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temporary agency employment, wage differential, earnings, Germany, reform

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Do Targeted Hiring Subsidies and Profiling Techniques Reduce Unemployment?

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3768
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 19 Oct 2008
Elke J. Jahn and Thomas Wagner
Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and University of Applied Sciences Nurnberg
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matching model, hiring subsidy, endogenous separation rate, active labour market policy, PES, random search

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The Urban Wage Premium in Imperfect Labour Markets

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9635
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 18 Jan 2016
Boris Hirsch, Elke J. Jahn and Michael Oberfichtner
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg-Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen Nürnberg
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urban wage premium, imperfect labour markets, monopsony, search frictions

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Migration and Imperfect Labor Markets: Theory and Cross-Country Evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6713
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 21 Jul 2012
Herbert Brücker, Elke J. Jahn and Richard Upward
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and University of Nottingham - School of Economics
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immigration, unemployment, wages, labor markets, panel data, comparative studies

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Does the Sector Experience Affect the Pay Gap for Temporary Agency Workers?

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5837
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 11 Jul 2011
Elke J. Jahn and Dario Pozzoli
Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and Aarhus University - School of Business and Social Sciences
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temporary agency employment, treatment intensity, dose response function approach, wages, Germany

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Identifying the Substitution Effect of Temporary Agency Employment

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6471
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 14 Apr 2012
Elke J. Jahn and Enzo Weber
Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and University of Regensburg
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temporary agency employment, substitution effect, Germany

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The Cyclical Behaviour of Employers' Monopsony Power and Workers' Wages

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7776
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 04 Dec 2013
Boris Hirsch, Elke J. Jahn and Claus Schnabel
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
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monopsony power, business cycle, entry wages

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Base Period, Qualifying Period and the Equilibrium Rate of Unemployment

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2151
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 13 Jun 2006
Elke J. Jahn and Thomas Wagner
Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and University of Applied Sciences Nurnberg
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matching model, unemployment insurance, base period, qualifying period

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Reviews

Kyklos, Vol. 55, pp. 99-146, 2002
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 30 Dec 2002
Farhad Rassekh, Kurt W. Rothschild, Indira Gurbaxani, Lucia Reisch, Benno Torgler, Ivo Maes, Leland G. Neuberg, Calvin Blackwell, Roland Doehrn, Gert-Jan Hospers, Norbert Thom, Oliver Budzinski, Peter Bernholz, Michael Rothgang, Raimund Dietz, Elke J. Jahn, Bruno S. Sergi, Sergio Rossi, Nils A. Radmacher-Nottelmann, Albrecht Rothacher and Hans Nutzinger
University of Hartford - Barney School of Business, University of Linz, University of Tuebingen - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Hohenheim - Institute of Household and Consumer Economics, Yale University - Yale Center for International and Area Studies, National Bank of Belgium, Leland G. Neuberg, College of Charleston - School of Business, Rheinisch-Westfalisches Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung, Essen (Rhine-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research), University of Twente, University of Bern - Institute for Organization and Human Resource, Ilmenau University of Technology, University of Basel - Center of Economics and Business Administration (WWZ), Rheinisch-Westfalisches Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung, Essen (Rhine-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research), Independent, Institute for Employment Research (IAB), University of Messina, University of Fribourg - Faculty of Economics and Social Science, Rheinisch-Westfalisches Institut fur Wirtschaftsforschung, Essen (Rhine-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research), European Commission and University of Kassel - Economics
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Is Temporary Agency Employment a Stepping Stone for Immigrants?

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6405
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 17 Mar 2012
Elke J. Jahn and Michael Rosholm
Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and Aarhus University - Department of Economics
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immigrants, temporary agency employment, stepping stone

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Does Better Pre-Migration Performance Accelerate Immigrants' Wage Assimilation?

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7240
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 09 Mar 2013
Boris Hirsch, Elke J. Jahn, Ott Toomet and Daniela Hochfellner
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Institute for Employment Research (IAB), University of Aarhus and Government of the Federal Republic of Germany - Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
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migration, labor market assimilation, ethnic Germans, transferability of human capital

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The Cyclicality of the Stepping-Stone Effect of Temporary Agency Employment

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11377
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 12 Mar 2018
Elke J. Jahn and Michael Rosholm
Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and Aarhus University - Department of Economics
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temporary agency employment, stepping-stone effects, cyclicality, Germany

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Birds, Birds, Birds: Co-Worker Similarity, Workplace Diversity, and Voluntary Turnover

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12333
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 21 May 2019
Boris Hirsch, Elke J. Jahn and Thomas Zwick
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and University of Würzburg - Business Administration & Economics
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workforce demography, co-worker similarity, workplace diversity, voluntary turnover

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The Effect of Temporary Help Jobs on Employment Volatility

Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, Vol. 49, Issue 1, pp. 412-427, 2016
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 15 Sep 2016
Elke J. Jahn and Enzo Weber
Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and University of Regensburg
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Feature: Flexible Forms of Employment: Boon and Bane

The Economic Journal, Vol. 122, Issue 562, pp. F115-F124, 2012
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 14 Aug 2012
Elke J. Jahn, Regina T. Riphahn and Claus Schnabel
Institute for Employment Research (IAB), University of Erlangen-Nuremberg-Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen Nürnberg - Department of Economics and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
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Migration and Wage‐Setting: Reassessing the Labor Market Effects of Migration

Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol. 113, Issue 2, pp. 286-317, 2011
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 24 May 2011
Herbert Brücker and Elke J. Jahn
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
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Immigration, wages, unemployment, Germany, panel data, F22, J31, J61

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Do Changes in Regulation Affect Temporary Agency Workers’ Job Satisfaction?

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Vol. 56, Issue 3, pp. 514-544, 2017
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 09 Jun 2017
Henna Busk, Christine Dauth and Elke J. Jahn
Pellervo Economic Research Institute, Helsinki, Government of the Federal Republic of Germany - Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
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