Bernhard Boockmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 2012040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernhard Boockmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernhard |
| FAMILY NAME | Boockmann |
| SIGNATURE | BOOCKMANN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for European Economic Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9804-6688 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Pension Reform Effects in Times of Technological Change and Shifting Task Composition
We study heterogeneity in the effects of a pension reform in Germany: the introduction of the old-age pension for the very long-term insured, which lowered the threshold for full pension receipt from age 65 to 63. Using a regression discontinuity design (RDD) and rich administrative pension data, we estimate the effects of the reform on eligible workers who differ in a number of occupational characteristics. Transitions into the new early retirem…
Should Welfare Administration be Centralized or Decentralized? Evidence from a Policy Experiment
The 2005 reform of the German welfare system introduced two competing organizational models for welfare administration. In most districts, a centralized organization was established where local welfare agencies are bound to central directives. At the same time, 69 districts were allowed to opt for a decentralized organization. We evaluate the relative success of both types in terms of integrating welfare recipients into employment. Compared to ce…
Evidenzbasierte Wirtschaftspolitik in Deutschland
Moderne Evaluationsmethoden auf der Basis ökonometrischer Verfahren und randomisierter Feldexperimente machen es für immer mehr Politikbereiche möglich, die Wirksamkeit wirtschaftspolitischer Maßnahmen zu überprüfen. Gleichwohl sind diese Methoden in der deutschen Evaluationspraxis nicht der Standard. Andere Länder sind Deutschland in dieser Hinsicht voraus. Gerade vor dem Hintergrund knapper öffentlicher Mittel ist eine Verbesserung der Evaluati…
Intensifying the use of benefit sanctions
In Germany, imposition of benefit cuts for non-compliant welfare recipients depends on the policy of the local welfare agencies resulting in considerable regional variation, expressed in milder and stricter sanction regimes. Findings from international studies show, that benefit sanctions can substantially increase individual employment uptake. This raises the question, whether a stricter use of sanctions will be effective in Germany. We analyze …
Vermittlerstrategien und Arbeitsmarkterfolg – Evidenz aus kombinierten Prozess- und Befragungsdaten
Do human rights offenders oppose human rights resolutions in the United Nations
We investigate whether countries with poor human rights records oppose human rights resolutions in the United Nations General Assembly. An instrumental account of voting would suggest that these countries aim to weaken resolutions since they could be future targets of these policies. We estimate determinants of voting using 13,000 individual voting decisions from 1980 to 2002. Our results from ordered probit estimation show that a country’s human…
The Effect of ILO Minimum Age Conventions on Child Labor and School Attendance
Die Veränderung individueller Beschäftigungsfähigkeit durch arbeitsmarktpolitische Intervention
Die Erhöhung der Beschäftigungsfähigkeit wird als Ziel der aktivierenden Arbeitsmarktpolitik umfassend diskutiert und ist programmatisch fest verankert, wird aber nur selten empirisch untersucht. In unserem Beitrag entwickeln wir ein empirisches Konzept zur Erfassung der Beschäftigungsfähigkeit auf individueller Ebene weiter und analysieren, ob arbeitsmarktpolitische Interventionen die Beschäftigungsfähigkeit verbessern können. Grundlage ist eine…
Workers, Firms, or Institutions
The authors examine job durations of German workers using the Linked Employer-Employee Data of the Institute of Employment Research (LIAB). Results indicate that exit rates are strongly influenced by firm characteristics, such as the existence of works councils and the opportunity for further training. The effects of these characteristics, however, are limited to jobs held by blue-collar workers or by those possessing vocation-educational skills.…
Eingliederungszuschüsse und Entgeltsicherung für Ältere – Analysen auf Basis natürlicher Experimente
Dieses Papier beschreibt Ergebnisse einer Evaluation von Eingliederungszuschüssen (EGZ) und Entgeltsicherung für ältere Arbeitnehmer. Es wird untersucht, ob förderberechtigte Personen im Vergleich zur Situation ohne diese Instrumente früher aus Arbeitslosigkeit in Beschäftigung wechseln. Die Ergebnisse der Evaluation wurden auf Basis natürlicher Experimente und unter Verwendung der reichhaltigsten Datenquelle in Deutschland, den Integrierten Erwe…
Flexibility provisions in multilateral environmental treaties
Participation and voting in committees
Partisan politics and treaty ratification
This article looks at the political and economic determinants of the ratification of International Labour Organisation conventions by 17 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development countries since 1960. Two well‐known models of intra‐governmental decision making – the veto player model and the portfolio allocation model – provide alternative assumptions regarding the political process. Results from stratified Cox estimation of the ratif…
Mixed Motives
Agenda Control by Interest Groups in Eu Social Policy
Some authors have asserted that the Agreement on Social Policy (the `Social Chapter' of the Maastricht Treaty), by allowing the social partners (trade unions and employers' associations) to bargain over the contents of planned social legislation, grants them the power to set the agenda in the Council of Ministers. A problem is that the precise definition of each actor's competences is unclear from the wording of the Agreement. The first purpose o…
Partisan politics and treaty ratification
This article looks at the political and economic determinants of the ratification of International Labour Organisation conventions by 17 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development countries since 1960. Two well‐known models of intra‐governmental decision making – the veto player model and the portfolio allocation model – provide alternative assumptions regarding the political process. Results from stratified Cox estimation of the ratif…
Do human rights offenders oppose human rights resolutions in the United Nations
We investigate whether countries with poor human rights records oppose human rights resolutions in the United Nations General Assembly. An instrumental account of voting would suggest that these countries aim to weaken resolutions since they could be future targets of these policies. We estimate determinants of voting using 13,000 individual voting decisions from 1980 to 2002. Our results from ordered probit estimation show that a country’s human…
The Effect of ILO Minimum Age Conventions on Child Labor and School Attendance
Mixed Motives
Flexibility provisions in multilateral environmental treaties
Workers, Firms, or Institutions
The authors examine job durations of German workers using the Linked Employer-Employee Data of the Institute of Employment Research (LIAB). Results indicate that exit rates are strongly influenced by firm characteristics, such as the existence of works councils and the opportunity for further training. The effects of these characteristics, however, are limited to jobs held by blue-collar workers or by those possessing vocation-educational skills.…
Participation and voting in committees
Die Veränderung individueller Beschäftigungsfähigkeit durch arbeitsmarktpolitische Intervention
Die Erhöhung der Beschäftigungsfähigkeit wird als Ziel der aktivierenden Arbeitsmarktpolitik umfassend diskutiert und ist programmatisch fest verankert, wird aber nur selten empirisch untersucht. In unserem Beitrag entwickeln wir ein empirisches Konzept zur Erfassung der Beschäftigungsfähigkeit auf individueller Ebene weiter und analysieren, ob arbeitsmarktpolitische Interventionen die Beschäftigungsfähigkeit verbessern können. Grundlage ist eine…
Agenda Control by Interest Groups in Eu Social Policy
Some authors have asserted that the Agreement on Social Policy (the `Social Chapter' of the Maastricht Treaty), by allowing the social partners (trade unions and employers' associations) to bargain over the contents of planned social legislation, grants them the power to set the agenda in the Council of Ministers. A problem is that the precise definition of each actor's competences is unclear from the wording of the Agreement. The first purpose o…
Mixed Motives
Eingliederungszuschüsse und Entgeltsicherung für Ältere – Analysen auf Basis natürlicher Experimente
Dieses Papier beschreibt Ergebnisse einer Evaluation von Eingliederungszuschüssen (EGZ) und Entgeltsicherung für ältere Arbeitnehmer. Es wird untersucht, ob förderberechtigte Personen im Vergleich zur Situation ohne diese Instrumente früher aus Arbeitslosigkeit in Beschäftigung wechseln. Die Ergebnisse der Evaluation wurden auf Basis natürlicher Experimente und unter Verwendung der reichhaltigsten Datenquelle in Deutschland, den Integrierten Erwe…
Flexibility provisions in multilateral environmental treaties
Participation and voting in committees
Partisan politics and treaty ratification
This article looks at the political and economic determinants of the ratification of International Labour Organisation conventions by 17 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development countries since 1960. Two well‐known models of intra‐governmental decision making – the veto player model and the portfolio allocation model – provide alternative assumptions regarding the political process. Results from stratified Cox estimation of the ratif…
The Effect of ILO Minimum Age Conventions on Child Labor and School Attendance
Die Veränderung individueller Beschäftigungsfähigkeit durch arbeitsmarktpolitische Intervention
Die Erhöhung der Beschäftigungsfähigkeit wird als Ziel der aktivierenden Arbeitsmarktpolitik umfassend diskutiert und ist programmatisch fest verankert, wird aber nur selten empirisch untersucht. In unserem Beitrag entwickeln wir ein empirisches Konzept zur Erfassung der Beschäftigungsfähigkeit auf individueller Ebene weiter und analysieren, ob arbeitsmarktpolitische Interventionen die Beschäftigungsfähigkeit verbessern können. Grundlage ist eine…
Workers, Firms, or Institutions
The authors examine job durations of German workers using the Linked Employer-Employee Data of the Institute of Employment Research (LIAB). Results indicate that exit rates are strongly influenced by firm characteristics, such as the existence of works councils and the opportunity for further training. The effects of these characteristics, however, are limited to jobs held by blue-collar workers or by those possessing vocation-educational skills.…
Do human rights offenders oppose human rights resolutions in the United Nations
We investigate whether countries with poor human rights records oppose human rights resolutions in the United Nations General Assembly. An instrumental account of voting would suggest that these countries aim to weaken resolutions since they could be future targets of these policies. We estimate determinants of voting using 13,000 individual voting decisions from 1980 to 2002. Our results from ordered probit estimation show that a country’s human…
Evidenzbasierte Wirtschaftspolitik in Deutschland
Moderne Evaluationsmethoden auf der Basis ökonometrischer Verfahren und randomisierter Feldexperimente machen es für immer mehr Politikbereiche möglich, die Wirksamkeit wirtschaftspolitischer Maßnahmen zu überprüfen. Gleichwohl sind diese Methoden in der deutschen Evaluationspraxis nicht der Standard. Andere Länder sind Deutschland in dieser Hinsicht voraus. Gerade vor dem Hintergrund knapper öffentlicher Mittel ist eine Verbesserung der Evaluati…
Intensifying the use of benefit sanctions
In Germany, imposition of benefit cuts for non-compliant welfare recipients depends on the policy of the local welfare agencies resulting in considerable regional variation, expressed in milder and stricter sanction regimes. Findings from international studies show, that benefit sanctions can substantially increase individual employment uptake. This raises the question, whether a stricter use of sanctions will be effective in Germany. We analyze …
Vermittlerstrategien und Arbeitsmarkterfolg – Evidenz aus kombinierten Prozess- und Befragungsdaten
Should Welfare Administration be Centralized or Decentralized? Evidence from a Policy Experiment
The 2005 reform of the German welfare system introduced two competing organizational models for welfare administration. In most districts, a centralized organization was established where local welfare agencies are bound to central directives. At the same time, 69 districts were allowed to opt for a decentralized organization. We evaluate the relative success of both types in terms of integrating welfare recipients into employment. Compared to ce…
Pension Reform Effects in Times of Technological Change and Shifting Task Composition
We study heterogeneity in the effects of a pension reform in Germany: the introduction of the old-age pension for the very long-term insured, which lowered the threshold for full pension receipt from age 65 to 63. Using a regression discontinuity design (RDD) and rich administrative pension data, we estimate the effects of the reform on eligible workers who differ in a number of occupational characteristics. Transitions into the new early retirem…
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