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Optimal use of labor market policies : the role of job search assistance

Wunsch, Conny - 2009

This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is based on a framework, that allows for endogenous choice of benefit types and levels, wage taxes or subsidies, and activation measures such as monitoring and job search assistance...

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Estimating incentive and welfare effects of non-stationary unemployment benefits

Launov, Andrey; Wälde, Klaus - 2010

The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits displays a time-varying exit rate. Building on Semi-Markov processes, we translate these exit rates into an expression for the aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation...

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Welfare to work in the US : a model for Germany?

Ochel, Wolfgang - 2001

and a Workfare model. The EITC and the Workfare model as implemented in the State of Wisconsin are described andanalysed …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399661

Work incentives? : ex post effects of unemployment insurance sanctions ; evidence from West Germany

Hofmann, Barbara - 2008

Unemployment insurance (UI) sanctions in the form of benefit reductions are intended to set disincentives for UI recipients to stay unemployed. Empirical evidence about the effects of UI sanctions in Germany is sparse. Using administrative data we investigate the effects of sanctions on the...

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The subjective well-being of workfare participants : insights from a day reconstruction survey

Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weimann, Joachim - 2015

In this paper, we shed more light on the subjective well-being of workfare participants and compare it to the well …-being of unemployed and employed workers. We use data from a self-conducted survey among participants in workfare schemes in … obtain a more comprehensive view of the subjective impact of workfare jobs. Our results show that the life satisfaction of …

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Welfare-to-work experiences with specific work-first programmes in selected countries

Ochel, Wolfgang - 2004

This paper reviews the evidence of specific mandatory work-first programmes (job search assistance and workfare) for …

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Workfare in Germany and the problem of vertical fiscal externalities

Feist, Holger; Schöb, Ronnie - 1999

Social assistance to the poor is increasingly subject to compulsory work requirements in Germany. Municipalities have started to offer temporary employment in their job-creation companies to claimants who are able to work. These claimants earn wages and social insurance contributions if they...

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The employment effect of reforming a public employment agency

Launov, Andrey; Wälde, Klaus - 2015

By how much does an increase in operating effectiveness of a public employment agency (PEA) and a reduction of unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the...

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Does active labour market policy work? : lessons from the Swedish experiences

Calmfors, Lars; Forslund, Anders; Hemström, Maria - 2002

The Swedish experiences of the 1990s provide a unique example of how large-scale active labour market programmes (ALMPs) have been used as a means to fight high unemployment. This paper surveys the empirical studies of the effects of ALMPs in Sweden. On the whole, ALMPs have probably reduced...

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Working time reduction and employment in a finite world

Fagnart, Jean-François; Germain, Marc; Van der Linden, … - 2021

We study the consequences of a working time reduction (WTR hereafter) in a growth model with efficiency wages and an essential natural resource (natural capital). Considering that technical progress cannot reduce the resource content of final production to zero, we show that the effects of a WTR...

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