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Evaluating the dynamic employment effects of training programs in East Germany using conditional difference-in-differences

Bergemann, Annette (contributor); … - 2005

This study analyzes the employment effects of training in East Germany. We propose and apply an extension of the widely used conditional difference-in-differences evaluation method. Focusing on transition rates between nonemployment and employment we take into account that employment is a state...

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The effectiveness of targeted wage subsidies for hard-to-place workers

Jaenichen, Ursula; Stephan, Gesine - 2007

Targeted wage subsidies paid to employers are an important element of active labour market policies in Germany. This paper uses propensity score matching to investigate their effect on subsidised hard-to-place workers. In a first scenario, we estimate the average treatment effect of a subsidy on...

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The effects of active labor market programs in Germany : an investigation using different definitions of non-treatment

Stephan, Gesine - 2008

,5 Jahren an keiner Maßnahme der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik teilgenommen haben ("joining versus never in any program"). Ein …

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Evaluating the Dynamic Employment Effects of Training Programs in East Germany Using Conditional Difference-in-Differences

Bergemann, Annette; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Speckesser, Stefan - 2021

This paper evaluates the effects of Public Sponsored Training in East Germany in the context of reiterated treatments. Selection bias based on observed characteristics is corrected for by applying kernel matching based on the propensity score. We control for further selection and the presence of...

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Mandatory integration agreements for unemployed job seekers: a randomized controlled field experiment in Germany

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Stephan, Gesine - 2021

In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment agency and the unemployed, jointly signed by the latter and the caseworker. IAs stipulate rights and obligations but are generally perceived as instruments to control search...

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Mandatory integration agreements for unemployed job seekers: a randomized controlled field experiment in Germany

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Stephan, Gesine - 2021

Integration Agreement (IA) are contracts between the employment agency and the unemployed, nudging the latter to comply with rules on search behavior. We designed and implemented an RCT involving thousands of newly unemployed workers, randomizing at the individual level both the timing of the IA...

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The impact of participation in job creation schemes in turbulent times

Bergemann, Annette; Pohlan, Laura; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2017

This paper analyzes the impact of participation in job creation schemes (JCSs) on job search outcomes in the context of … the turbulent East German labor market in the aftermath of the German reunification. High job destruction characterized … the typical program duration of twelve months, probably driven by reduced job search effort during participation resulting …

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Job creation schemes in turbulent times

Bergemann, Annette; Pohlan, Laura; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2017

This paper analyzes the impact of job creation schemes (JCSs) on job search outcomes in the context of the turbulent … East German labor market in the aftermath of the German reunification. High job destruction characterized the economic … locking-in effects. However, twelve months after the program start the significantly negative impact on the job finding …

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The relative effectiveness of selected active labour market programmes and the common support problem

Stephan, Gesine (contributor); Pahnke, André (contributor) - 2008

job creation schemes. Third, while lock-in effects are smaller for shorter programmes, long retraining shows mainly … positive effects compared to shorter training at the end of the observation period. Fourth, participants in job creation …

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Wage subsidies for needy job-seekers and their effect on individual labour market outcomes after the German reforms

Bernhard, Sarah (contributor); Gartner, Hermann (contributor) - 2008

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 effects: 20 months after taking up a subsidised job, the share of … placement difficulties benefit comparatively more from subsidisation. -- Wage subsidies ; unemployment benefits II for needy job …

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