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Vouchers and caseworkers in public training programs : evidence from the Hartz reform in Germany

Rinne, Ulf (contributor); Uhlendorff, Arne (contributor); … - 2008

administrative data set, we apply matching and regression methods to measure the effect of the Hartz reform in Germany, which … introduced training vouchers and imposed more selective criteria on participants. Besides estimating the overall reform effect … important type of training in Germany, we find a slightly positive impact of the reform. Our decomposition results suggest that …

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The IZA evaluation dataset : towards evidence-based labor policy-making

Caliendo, Marco; Falk, Armin; Kaiser, Lutz C.; … - 2010

The evaluation of labor market policies has become an important issue in many European countries. In recent years, a number of them have opened their administrative databases for evaluation studies. The advantages of administrative data are straightforward: they are accurate, contain a large...

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Earnings exemptions for unemployed workers : the relationship between marginal employment, unemployment duration and job quality

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016

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...

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Marginal employment, unemployment duration and job match quality

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2012

In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income during job search by taking up "marginal employment" up to a threshold without any deduction from their benefits. Marginal employment can be considered as a wage subsidy as it lowers labour costs for firms owing to...

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Mandatory integration agreements for unemployed job seekers: a randomized controlled field experiment in Germany

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Stephan, Gesine - 2021

In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment agency and the unemployed, jointly signed by the latter and the caseworker. IAs stipulate rights and obligations but are generally perceived as instruments to control search...

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Job creation schemes in turbulent times

Bergemann, Annette; Pohlan, Laura; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016

This paper analyzes the impact of job creation schemes (JCS) on job search outcomes in the context of the turbulent East German labor market in the aftermath of the German reunification. High job destruction characterized the economic environment. JCS were heavily used in order to cushion this...

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Employment effects of welfare reforms : evidence from a dynamic structural life-cycle model

Haan, Peter (contributor); Prowse, Victoria (contributor); … - 2008

In this paper we develop a dynamic structural life-cycle model of labor supply behavior which fully accounts for the effect of income tax and transfers on labor supply incentives. Additionally, the model recognizes the demand side driven rationing risk that might prevent individuals from...

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Evaluating continuous training programs using the generalized propensity score

Kluve, Jochen; Schneider, Hilmar; Uhlendorff, Arne; … - 2007

This paper assesses the dynamics of treatment effects arising from variation in the duration of training. We use German administrative data that have the extraordinary feature that the amount of treatment varies continuously from 10 days to 395 days (i.e. 13 months). This feature allows us to...

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Too bad to benefit? : Effect heterogeneity of public training programs

Rinne, Ulf (contributor); Schneider, Marc (contributor); … - 2007

This study analyzes the treatment effects of public training programs for the unemployed in Germany. Based on propensity score matching methods we extend the picture that has been sketched in previous studies by estimating treatment effects of medium-term programs for different sub-groups with...

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