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What is the Value Added by Caseworkers?
Lechner, Michael; Smith, Jeffrey A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
policy by the caseworkers at local employment offices in Switzerland in 1998. We are particularly interested in whether the … caseworkers allocate the unemployed to services in ways that will maximize the program-induced changes in their employment … subgroups. Our results indicate that Swiss caseworkers do not do a very good job of allocating their unemployed clients to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761813
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A Statistical Programme Assignment Model
Svarer, Michael; Rosholm, Michael; Staghøj, Jonas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
When treatment effects of active labour market programmes are heterogeneous in an observable way across the population, the allocation of the unemployed into different programmes becomes a particularly important issue. In this paper, we present a statistical model designed to improve the present...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233854
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Do German Welfare-to-Work Programmes Reduce Welfare and Increase Work?
Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny; Walter, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Many Western economies have reformed their welfare systems with the aim of activating welfare recipients by increasing welfare-to-work programmes and job search enforcement. We evaluate the three most important German welfare-to-work programmes implemented after a major reform in January 2005...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762293
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Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities and targeting the unemployed under the criteria of "approximate welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762441
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Unemployment and Subsequent Employment Stability: Does Labour Market Policy Matter?
Wulfgramm, Melike; Fervers, Lukas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper analyses the effect of unemployment insurance generosity and active labour market policy on reemployment stability in Europe. Using EU‐SILC and OECD data, we conduct discrete time survival analyses with shared frailty specification to identify policy effects at the micro and macro...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607876
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Migration, Redistribution and the Universal Welfare Model
Andersen, Torben M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
workfare elements as a targeting device to direct benefits to those considered deserving. Thereby social insurance and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814476
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Macroeconomic Impacts of ALMP on the Matching Process in West Germany
Hujer, Reinhard; Zeiss, Christopher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper investigates the macroeconomic effects of job creation schemes and vocational training on the matching processes in West Germany. The empirical analysis is based on regional data for local employment office districts for the period from 1999 to 2003. The empirical model relies on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762212
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Die reformierte Gründungsförderung für Arbeitslose: Chancen und Risiken
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Support schemes for unemployed aiming for self-employment have been recently reformed several times. In 2003, the "start-up subsidy" was added to the existing "bridging allowance". In 2006 both instruments were merged to the "Gründungszuschuss". Since the bridging allowance has been evaluated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703455
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The Curse and Blessing of Training the Unemployed in a Changing Economy: The Case of East Germany After Unification
Lechner, Michael; Miquel, Ruth; Wunsch, Conny - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
male participants. At least part of the explanation for this negative result is that caseworkers severely misjudged the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703594
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Exploiting Regional Treatment Intensity for the Evaluation of Labour Market Policies
Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We estimate the effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) on subsequent employment by nonparametric instrumental variables and matching estimators. Very informative administrative Swiss data with detailed regional information are combined with exogenous regional variation in programme...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703670