In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment …

heterogeneity into account. Our results indicate that participation in JCS increases the unemployment duration mainly due to … participants leave unemployment quicker than other groups, which results in highly skilled women benefiting from participation …. However, we find no significant impact on post-unemployment employment stability. Our results are robust to allowing for …

innovative survey data. The administrative part of the dataset consists of a large random sample of inflows into unemployment in …,000 individuals who entered unemployment between June 2007 and May 2008. They were initially interviewed shortly after becoming …