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For selected target groups, such as unemployed and disadvantaged youth, Christoph Ehlert demonstrates that flexible and well-targeted programmes significantly improve employment chances. To be effective, these programmes must combine individual coaching, classroom training and temporary work....
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This paper evaluates a job search assistance program for unemployment insurance recipients. The assignment to the program is dynamic. We provide a discussion on dynamic treatment effects and identification conditions. In the empirical analyses we use administrative data from a unique...
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Employment agencies aim to match individuals to appropriate jobs. There are public and private employment agencies, which co-exist in many countries. Selection effects may be relevant in the sense that private agencies potentially engage in 'cream-skimming' by prioritizing highly qualified...
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This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is based on a framework, that allows for endogenous choice of benefit types and levels, wage taxes or subsidies, and activation measures such as monitoring and job search assistance...
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Over the past three decades Germany has repeatedly deregulated the law on temporary agency work by stepwise increasing the maximum period for hiring-out employees and allowing temporary work agencies to conclude fixed-term contracts. These reforms should have had an effect on the employment...
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Job placement vouchers can be regarded as a tool to spur competition between public and private job placement activities. The German government launched this instrument in order to end the public placement monopoly and to subsidize its private competitors. We exploit very rich administrative...
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This paper studies the effect of two labor market institutions, unemployment insurance (UI) and job search assistance (JSA), on the output cost and welfare cost of recessions. The paper develops a tractable incomplete-market model with search unemployment, skill depreciation during unemployment,...
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Arbeitsmarkt und Beschäftigung -- Qualifikationsspezifische Grundlagen der Arbeitsvermittlung -- Job Center und … Fallmanagement: Herzstücke der Arbeitsmarktreformen -- Arbeitsvermittlung, Profiling und Matching -- Berufs- und … tätigkeitsorientierte Grundlagen der Arbeitsvermittlung -- Integration behinderter Menschen in den Arbeitsmarkt -- Stichwortverzeichnis. …
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Arbeitsmarkt und Beschäftigung -- Qualifikationsspezifische Grundlagen der Arbeitsvermittlung -- Job-Center und … Fallmanagement -- Arbeitsvermittlung, Profiling und Matching -- Berufe als Informationsgrundlage für die Personalvermittlung … für die Vorbereitung auf Tätigkeiten im Bereich der Arbeitsvermittlung für unterschiedliche Zielgruppen erforderlich sind …
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Our paper analyzes the role of public employment agencies in job matching, in particular the effects of the restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment. Based on two microeconomic datasets, we show that the...
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