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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 …

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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...

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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...

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What Works? A Meta Analysis of Recent Active Labor Market Program Evaluations

Card, David - 2015

We present a meta-analysis of impact estimates from over 200 recent econometric evaluations of active labor market programs from around the world. We classify estimates by program type and participant group, and distinguish between three different post-program time horizons.Using meta-analytic...

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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 …

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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...

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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...

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How Effective are Active Labor Market Policies in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence

McKenzie, David J. - 2017

Jobs are the number one policy concern of policymakers in many countries. The global financial crisis, rising demographic pressures, high unemployment rates, and concerns over automation all make it seem imperative that policymakers employ increasingly more active labor market policies. This...

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How Demanding are Activation Requirements for Jobseekers?

Immervoll, Herwig - 2018

This paper presents new information on activity-related eligibility criteria for unemployment and related benefits in OECD and EU countries in 2017, comparing the strictness of "demanding" elements built into unemployment benefits across countries and over time. Eligibility criteria for...

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The Effect of the Hartz Labor Market Reforms on Post-Unemployment Wages, Sorting, and Matching

Woodcock, Simon D. - 2020

effects into components attributable to selection on unobservables, and to changes in the way that displaced workers are …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832592

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