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Under heavy pressure : intense monitoring and accumulation of sanctions for young welfare recipients in Germany

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - 2017

With the introduction of a new welfare benefit system in 2005, Germany implemented quite strict benefit sanctions for welfare recipients aged younger than 25 years. For all types of non-compliance except for missing appointments, their basic cash benefit is withdrawn for three months. A second...

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Sanctions for young welfare recipients

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - 2013

Social welfare systems usually imply specific obligations for benefit recipients. If a recipient does not comply with these obligations, a sanction involving a punitive benefits reduction may be imposed. In this paper we give an overview of the literature on the effects of sanctions in social...

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Die Wirkung der Hartz-Reform im Bereich der beruflichen Weiterbildung

Schneider, Hilmar (contributor); … - 2006

The so-called Hartz reform has introduced fundamental changes for publicly sponsored training in Germany. This concerns primarily the emission of training vouchers as an exclusive allocation device, allowing potential participants free choice among training providers within a given training...

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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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Labour supply effects of a subsidised old-age part-time scheme in Austria

Graf, Nikolaus; Hofer, Helmut; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2009

policy to allow flexible retirement options for the elderly with an aim to increase labour supply. According to our matching …. Furthermore, the programme seems to reduce the measured unemployment risk. However, the total number of hours worked is …

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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 …

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

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

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 …

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Job creation schemes in turbulent times

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

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 …

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Job creation and job destruction over the life cycle : the older workers in the spotlight

Hairault, Jean-Olivier (contributor); … - 2007

policies in France. Finally we show that the age-dynamics of employment is optimal when the Hosios condition holds and we …

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