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Public or private job placement services—Are private ones more effective?

Stephan, Gesine - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)

Expenditures on job placement and related services make up a substantial share of many countries’ GDP. Contracting out to private providers is often proposed as a more efficient alternative to the state provision of placement services. However, the responsible state agency has to design and...

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Subsidized work before and after the German Hartz reforms: Design of major schemes, evaluation results and lessons learnt

Wolff, Joachim; Stephan, Gesine - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-24

This review discusses empirical studies on hiring subsidies in the private sector and on schemes directly providing usually public or non-profit sector jobs for the unemployed in Germany. An important effect of hiring subsidies is that they stabilise employment. For employment schemes, results...

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Beschäftigung zwischen Mobilität und Stabilität: Empirische Befunde und wirtschaftspolitische Folgerungen

Gerlach, Knut; Hübler, Olaf; Stephan, Gesine - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 44 (2011) 1/2, pp. 91-102

The objective of this paper is to present a short survey of our new research results to mobility and stability of employment on a micro level. This area of conflict is analyzed from an individual and a firm's perspective, taking institutional issues into account. More than previous studies, we...

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Targeting Labour Market Programmes - Results from a Randomized Experiment

Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 145 (2009) 3, pp. 221-268

We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assist caseworkers in Swiss employment offices in choosing appropriate active labour market programmes for their unemployed clients. The support system was piloted in several employment offices in which, randomly,...

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Short-time allowances in times of crisis: A survey experiment

Stephan, Gesine; Dütsch, Matthias; Osiander, Christopher - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-19

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries used short-time work schemes, i.e., subsidies for temporary working hours reductions due to production drops. In Germany, regulations on entitlements and benefits have been much more generous during the pandemic than they were in noncrisis times. This...

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Statistical Assistance for Programme Selection - For a Better Targeting of Active Labour Market Policies in Switzerland

Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - In: CESifo DICE Report 04 (2006) 2, pp. 61-68

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Justice perceptions of occupational training subsidies: findings from a factorial survey

Wolff, Richard; Struck, Olaf; Osiander, Christopher; … - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-18

Workers whose jobs are affected by structural change and digitization are required to continuously adapt their vocational skills to the requirements of the labor market. This adaptation is also essential for the competitiveness of their employer firms. The German legislature addressed this issue...

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Transparency in empirical economic research

Blanco-Perez, Cristina; Brodeur, Abel - In: IZA World of Labor (2019)

The open science and research transparency movement aims to make the research process more visible and to strengthen the credibility of results. Examples of open research practices include open data, pre-registration, and replication. Open science proponents argue that making data and codes...

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Workfare: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen

Koch, Susanne; Stephan, Gesine; Walwei, Ulrich - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 38 (2005) 2/3, pp. 419-440

transfer payments in general to a 'service in return' from the recipient. This concept operates under the name of workfare …. This paper examines the possibilities and limits of workfare in dealing with labour market problems. This includes the … the fiscal consequences. The paper shows that one fundamental premise for the effectiveness of a wide-ranging workfare …

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