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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...
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labor market policies in Germany. It argues in favor of a reduced range of active labor market policy schemes focusing on …
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We estimate the effects of hiring subsidies for older workers on transitions from unemployment to employment in Germany … of unemployed jobseekers in Germany and was specifically made available for our purposes from administrative data …. Consistent support for an employment effect of hiring subsidies can only be found for women in East Germany. Concerning other …
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administrative data set from Germany and statistical matching techniques. Our treatment groups consist of unemployed persons taking …
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This paper explores whether wage, employment and tenure outcomes of workers taking up a job subsidized by the German Federal Employment Agency differ by industry. The analysis utilizes administrative data and statistical matching techniques; it covers an observation period of 3.5 years. First,...
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This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities and targeting the unemployed under the criteria of "approximate welfare efficiency" (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies...
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