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Work incentives? Ex-post effects of unemployment insurance sanctions : evidence from West Germany
Hofmann, Barbara - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
receipt between April 2000 and March 2001. By applying a matching approach that takes timing of events into account, we … identify the ex post effect of UI sanctions. As a robustness check a difference-in-differences matching estimator is applied …
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Work incentives? Ex-post effects of unemployment insurance sanctions : evidence from West Germany
Hofmann, Barbara - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
receipt between April 2000 and March 2001. By applying a matching approach that takes timing of events into account, we … identify the ex post effect of UI sanctions. As a robustness check a difference-in-differences matching estimator is applied …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592330
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Active labour-market policies in Germany : do regional labour markets benefit?
Wapler, Rüdiger; Werner, Daniel; Wolf, Katja - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2014
deals with the question whether ALMP improves the matching-process between job-seekers and vacancies and thus increases the … former programme participants. The result from our augmented matching function shows that the lock-in effect is also present … matching process. However, this effect varies largely between different types of programmes. Positive effects occur for long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099832
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Active labour market programmes for women with a partner : challenge or replication of traditional gender roles
Kopf, Eva; Zabel, Cordula - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2014
"A major unemployment and welfare benefit reform took place in Germany in 2005. One objective of this reform was to more strongly encourage an adult worker model of the family, with an emphasis on activating the formerly inactive. Our hypothesis is, however, that assignments to activation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010939192
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005342792
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005342801
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Vom Ein-Euro-Jobber zum ‘regulären‘ Mitarbeiter? : eine Mixed-Methods-Evaluation zu innerbetrieblichen Übergängen aus öffentlich geförderter in sozialversicherungspflichtige Beschä...
Hohendanner, Christian; Klemm, Matthias; Promberger, Markus - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011
"This paper investigates in-firm transitions from so-called 'one-euro-jobs' to regular employment. One-euro-jobs are an important workfare instrument of German labour market policy and are meant to increase employability of long-term unemployed persons, enabling them to apply for regular jobs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364668
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009279896
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Berufliche Statusmobilität von Arbeitslosen nach beruflicher Weiterbildung : ein empirischer Beitrag zur Evaluation der Förderung beruflicher Weiterbildung
Deeke, Axel; Baas, Meike - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
"Evaluations of the promotion of further vocational training for the unemployed often address the question, whether further vocational training increases subsequent transitions into employment. But in regard of labour market policy the quality of the employment gained is also important. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010641647
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The impact of labour market reforms and economic performance on the matching of short-term and long-term unemployed
Klinger, Sabine; Rothe, Thomas - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2010
on the efficiency of matching out of unemployment. Especially focussing on searcher heterogeneity, we estimate a system … of simultaneous stock-flow matching functions for short-term and long-term unemployment (3SLS) on the basis of … administrative data. In sum, matching efficiency accelerated for the short-term and particularly the long-term unemployed although we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008457325