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...

For Germany, we analyse the (relative) effects of participation in several active labour market programmes on the employment prospects of participants. First, our results show that different matching algorithms result in different severe problems of common support. Second, we obtain favourable...

From 2002-2004, the German government passed several laws that curtailed the generosity of the unemployment compensation system. One of the most ambitious changes was a considerable reduction in unemployment benefit entitlement lengths for older unemployed, which was effective during 2006 and...

We estimate the effect of a shortening of unemployment benefit entitlements on unemployment duration. Previous studies on the same or related problems have not taken into account that the competing risks duration model is not identified and we shed first light on the question whether the non...

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 tech-niques; it covers an observation period of 3.5 years. First,...

Eingliederungszuschüsse bei Einarbeitung und erschwerter Vermittlung wirken sich positiv auf die Beschäftigungschancen der Geförderten aus. Dies zeigt eine aktuelle Studie des Instituts für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), die im Rahmen der Evaluierung der Hartz- Gesetze I-III im...

Dieser Bericht untersucht, welche Art von Beschäftigungsverhältnissen Arbeitslo-sengeld-II-Empfängerinnen und -Empfänger innehatten, bevor und nachdem sie in den Grundsicherungsbezug übergingen. Die Studie konzentriert sich dabei auf Menschen, die im Jahr 2012 neu Grundsicherung bezogen,...