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Koch, Susanne; Stephan, Gesine; Walwei, Ulrich - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2005

transfer payments in general to a 'service in return' from the recipient. This concept operates under the name of workfare …. This paper examines the possibilities and limits of workfare in dealing with labour market problems. This includes the … the fiscal consequences. The paper shows that one fundamental premise for the effectiveness of a wide-ranging workfare …

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Workfare: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen

Koch, Susanne; Stephan, Gesine; Walwei, Ulrich - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2005

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Participation of unemployment benefit recipients in active labor market programs : before and after the German labor market reforms

Stephan, Gesine; Zickert, Kathi - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008

"Between 2005 and 2007 the German government raised a per-capita amount of around 10.000 Euros for each transition out of unemployment benefit receipt into basic social care, to be paid by the unemployment insurance. The so called 'Aussteuerungsbetrag' set strong incentives that investments in...

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A pairwise comparison of the effectiveness of selected active labour market programmes in Germany

Stephan, Gesine; Pahnke, André - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008

"For Germany, our study estimates average effects of further vocational training, short training and job creation schemes on the employment prospects of participants. We compare participation in each programme with non-participation as well as with participation in one of the other programmes....

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Evaluation der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik: Ein Sachstandsbericht für die Instrumentenreform 2011 (Evaluation of active labor market programs : a summary of recent results for the...

Heyer, Gerd; Koch, Susanne; Stephan, Gesine; Wolff, Joachim - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011

"This article provides a result-oriented view on the current status of German active labor market policy evaluation. The literature shows that nearly all groups of instruments positively affect the labor market prospects of at least particular groups of participants. However, regarding the...

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Wirkungsanalyse in der Bundesagentur für Arbeit : Konzeption, Datenbasis und ausgewählte Befunde

Stephan, Gesine; Rässler, Susanne; Schewe, Torben - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2006

"In der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) wird derzeit ein System der quantitativen Wirkungsanalyse arbeitsmarktpolitischer Maßnahmen entwickelt, das in Zukunft die operative Steuerung unterstützen soll. Wichtiger Bestandteil ist die neu aufgebaute Datenbank des Projektes 'Treatment Effects and...

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Long-run effects of public sector sponsored training in West Germany

Lechner, Michael; Miquel, Ruth; Wunsch, Conny - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2005

"Between 1991 and 1997 West Germany spent on average about 3.6 bn Euro per year on public sector sponsored training programmes for the unemployed. We base our empirical analysis on a new administrative data base that plausibly allows for selectivity correction by microeconometric matching...

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Are training programs more effective when unemployment is high?

Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2007

"We estimate short, medium, and long-run individual labor market effects of training programs for unemployed by following program participation on a monthly basis over a ten-year period. Since analyzing the effectiveness of training over such a long period is impossible with experimental data,...

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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 - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2005

"We analyse the effects of public sector sponsored training for the unemployed in the transition process in East Germany. For the microeconometric analysis, we use a new, large and informative administrative database that allows us to use matching methods to reduce potential selection bias,...

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The effects of active labor market programs in Germany : an investigation using different definitions of non-treatment

Stephan, Gesine - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008

"This paper estimates the effects of several German labor market programs - starting in March 2003 - on the employment outcomes of participants using propensity score matching. The main objective is to compare estimated average treatment effects for treatment and comparison groups, which vary in...

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