The majority of the Member States of the European Union have undertaken remarkably comprehensive welfare and labor market reforms in the years since the 1990s. Many of these reforms, however, have not followed the conventional retrenchment and deregulation recipes, but rather took a liking to...

Employment protection legislation, unemployment benefits and active labor market policy are Janus-faced institutions. On the one hand they are devices of insurance against labor market risk that provide income and employment security. On the other hand they influence the capacities of labor...

The majority of the Member States of the European Union have undertaken remarkably comprehensive welfare and labor market reforms in the years since the 1990s. Many of these reforms, however, have not followed the conventional retrenchment and deregulation recipes, but rather took a liking to...

Employment protection legislation, unemployment benefits, and active labor market policy are Janus-faced institutions. On the one hand they are devices of insurance against labor market risk that provide income and employment security. On the other hand they influence the capacities of labor...

Employment protection legislation, unemployment benefits and active labor market policy are Janus-faced institutions. On the one hand they are devices of insurance against labor market risk that provide income and employment security. On the other hand they influence the capacities of labor...

In diesem Forschungsbericht werden die Datensätze der Bundesagentur für Arbeit vorgestellt, die für die mikroökonometrischen Untersuchungen zur Verfügung stehen. Es handelt sich insbesondere um die Bewerberangebotsdaten (BewA), um die Beschäftigtenhistorik (BeH) sowie um die integrierten...

Aufbauend auf den Mikrodaten werden in diesem Forschungsbericht die Determinanten der Ausgabe von Vermittlungsgutscheinen und deren direkte Wirkungen auf der Individualebene untersucht. Die Analysen legen den Schluss nahe, dass die Gruppe der Arbeitslosen, die einen Vermittlungsgutschein...

Zur Bewertung des Ressourceneinsatzes der Bundesagentur für Arbeit wird eine fiskalische Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse (KNA) auf Basis der Mikround Makroanalyse durchgeführt. Bei der Berechnung der Ertragseffekte werden direkte und indirekte Maßnahmeneffekte einbezogen. Wirkungen auf das...

The paper reviews national and international experiences with different combinations of in-work benefits, subsidized employment, statutory minimum wages and implicit minimum wages defined by social assistance provisions. It calls for a cautious approach regarding the introduction of additional...