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  -