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Do German Welfare-to-Work Programmes Reduce Welfare and Increase Work?
Huber, Martin - 2009
regional information. We use this richness to allow for a selection-on-observables approach when doing the econometric …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764217
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Optimal Use of Labor Market Policies : The Role of Job Search Assistance
Wunsch, Conny - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147543
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Does Leaving Welfare Improve Health? Evidence for Germany
Huber, Martin - 2009
Using exceptionally rich linked administrative and survey information on German welfare recipients we investigate the health effects of transitions from welfare to employment and of assignments to welfare-to-work programmes. Applying semi-parametric propensity score matching estimators we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157019
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Vouchers and Caseworkers in Public Training Programs : Evidence from the Hartz Reform in Germany
Rinne, Ulf - 2009
, we isolate the effect induced by changes in the composition of program participants due to stricter selection by the … caseworkers (selection effect) from the effect based on the introduction of vouchers (voucher effect). Analyzing the most … the selection effect is - if at all - slightly negative, and that the voucher effect increased both, the employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765322
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Before and after the Hartz Reforms : The Performance of Active Labour Market Policy in Germany
Jacobi, Lena; Kluve, Jochen - 2021
Having faced high unemployment rates for more than a decade, the German government implemented a comprehensive set of labour market reforms during the period 2003-2005. This paper describes the economic and institutional context of the German labour market before and after these so-called Hartz...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317618
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Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives
Brown, Alessio J.G; Orszag, J. Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2008
We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014058461
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Wage Rigidity or Fiscal Redistribution? The Unemployment Bias of Time Consistent Redistributive Policies
Lehmann, Etienne - 2021
Because of Time Inconsistency considerations, policymakers underestimate the drawbacks of wage rigidity as a redistributive tool. Consequently, they redistribute inefficiently income from high to low skilled workers. They typically implement too much wage rigidity whereas other means (in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317603
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The German Labor Market after the Great Recession : Successful Reforms and Future Challenges
Caliendo, Marco - 2012
The reaction of the German labor market to the Great Recession 2008/09 was relatively mild – especially compared to other countries. The reason lies not only in the specific type of the recession – which was favorable for the German economy structure – but also in a series of labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099760
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Activation Policies in Germany : From Status Protection to Basic Income Support
Eichhorst, Werner; Grienberger-Zingerle, Maria; … - 2021
This paper provides an overview of the sequential shift towards activating labor market and social policy in Germany. It not only shows the changes in the instruments of active and passives labor market policies but also analyzes the implications of this change for the political economy, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317280
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Wage Subsidies for Needy Job-Seekers and Their Effect on Individual Labour Market Outcomes after the German Reforms
Bernhard, Sarah; Gartner, Hermann; Stephan, Gesine - 2021
Our paper estimates the average effect of wage subsidies - paid to employers for a limited period of time - on the labour market prospects of needy job-seekers without access to insurance-paid 'unemployment benefit I'. The results show that wage subsidies had large and significant favourable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324897