TY  - JOUR
A1  - Caliendo, Marco
A1  - Gehrsitz, Markus
T1  - Obesity and the labor market: A fresh look at the weight penalty
JF  - Inorganics : open access journal
KW  - Obesity
KW  - Wages
KW  - Employment
KW  - Semiparametric regression
KW  - Gender differences
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2016.09.004
SN  - 1570-677X
SN  - 1873-6130
VL  - 23
SP  - 209
EP  - 225
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Caliendo, Marco
A1  - Kuenn, Steffen
A1  - Weißenberger, Martin
T1  - Personality traits and the evaluation of start-up subsidies
JF  - European economic review
N2  - Many countries support business start-ups to spur economic growth and reduce unemployment with different programmes. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal interpretation of the results only if all relevant variables affecting participation and success are accounted for. While the entrepreneurship literature has emphasised the important role of personality traits as predictors for start-up decisions and business success, these variables were neglected in evaluation studies so far due to data limitations. In this paper, we evaluate a new start-up subsidy for unemployed individuals in Germany using propensity score matching under the CIA. Having access to rich administrative-survey data allows us to incorporate usually unobserved personality measures in the evaluation and investigate their impact on the estimated effects. We find strong positive effects on labour market reintegration and earned income for the new programme. Most importantly, results including and excluding individuals׳ personalities do not differ significantly, implying that concerns about potential overestimation of programme effects in the absence of personality measures might be less justified if the set of other control variables is rich enough.
KW  - Start-up subsidies
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Self-employment
KW  - Personality
KW  - Treatment effects
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2015.11.008
SN  - 0014-2921
SN  - 1873-572X
VL  - 86
SP  - 87
EP  - 108
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Caliendo, Marco
A1  - Künn, Steffen
A1  - Uhlendorff, Arne
T1  - Earnings exemptions for unemployed workers: The relationship between marginal employment, unemployment duration and job quality
JF  - Labour economics : an international journal
N2  - In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income by working a few hours per week. The intention is to keep unemployed job seekers attached to the labour market and to increase their job-finding probabilities. To analyze the unemployment dynamics of job seekers with and without marginal employment, we consider an inflow sample into unemployment and estimate multivariate duration models. While we do not find any significant impact on the job finding probability in a model with homogeneous effects, models allowing for time-varying coefficients indicate a decreased job finding probability of marginal employment at the beginning of the unemployment spell and an increased job finding probability for the long-term unemployed. Our results suggest that job seekers with marginal employment find more stable post-unemployment jobs, and we find some evidence that the relationship between marginal employment and wages and employment stability varies with respect to skill levels, sector and labor market tightness. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
KW  - Marginal employment
KW  - Mini-job
KW  - Unemployment duration
KW  - Job search
KW  - Employment stability
KW  - Multivariate duration models
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2016.07.003
SN  - 0927-5371
SN  - 1879-1034
VL  - 42
SP  - 177
EP  - 193
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -