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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 …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496735
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Participation of unemployment benefit recipients in active labor market programs : before and after the German labor market reforms
Stephan, Gesine; Zickert, Kathi - 2008
gerechtfertigt waren. Wir vergleichen dazu Kohorten, die im März der Jahre 2003 bis 2006 in Arbeitslosigkeit eingetreten sind und zu …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003873961
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003873105
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003873948
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A pairwise comparison of the effectiveness of selected active labour market programmes in Germany
Stephan, Gesine; Pahnke, André - 2008
Wir untersuchen die Wirkung im März 2003 begonnener Weiterbildungs-, Trainings- und Arbeitsbeschaffungsmaßnahmen auf die Arbeitsmarktchancen der Geförderten. Hierzu werden die jeweiligen Teilnehmer sowohl mit einer ähnlichen Gruppe nicht geförderter Personen als auch mit ähnlichen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003874066
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Evaluation der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik : ein Sachstandsbericht für die Instrumentenreform 2011
Heyer, Gerd; Koch, Susanne; Stephan, Gesine; Wolff, Joachim - 2011
Der Beitrag gibt einen ergebnisorientierten Überblick über den Stand der Evaluation der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik in …- und Ausbildungsmarkt bei. -- Evaluation der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik ; Instrumentenreform ; Maßnahmen zur Verbesserung …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009273076
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573675
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Fixing the leak : unemployment incidence before and after the 2006 reform of unemployment benefits in Germany
Dlugosz, Stephan; Stephan, Gesine; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2009
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 … highly disputed reform induced a considerable decline in unemployment incidence among older workers. It thus sealed an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003914220
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Fixing the leak : unemployment incidence before and after the 2006 reform of unemployment benefits in Germany
Dlugosz, Stephan; Stephan, Gesine; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2009
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 … highly disputed reform induced a considerable decline in unemployment incidence among older workers. It thus sealed an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003948156