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Under heavy pressure : intense monitoring and accumulation of sanctions for young welfare recipients in Germany
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - 2017
With the introduction of a new welfare benefit system in 2005, Germany implemented quite strict benefit sanctions for welfare recipients aged younger than 25 years. For all types of non-compliance except for missing appointments, their basic cash benefit is withdrawn for three months. A second...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012415082
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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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Earnings exemptions for unemployed workers : the relationship between marginal employment, unemployment duration and job quality
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016
analyze the unemployment dynamics of job seekers with and without marginal employment, we consider an inflow sample into … unemployment and estimate multivariate duration models. While we do not find any significant impact on the job finding probability … probability of marginal employment at the beginning of the unemployment spell and an increased job finding probability for the …
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Marginal employment, unemployment duration and job match quality
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2012
incentives due to higher net earnings. Additional earnings during unemployment might lead to higher reservation wages prolonging … the duration of unemployment, yet also giving unemployed individuals more time to search for better and more stable jobs … evaluate the impact of marginal employment on unemployment duration and subsequent job quality, we consider a sample of fresh …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579318
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Marginal employment, unemployment duration and job match quality
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2012
incentives due to higher net earnings. Additional earnings during unemployment might lead to higher reservation wages prolonging … the duration of unemployment, yet also giving unemployed individuals more time to search for better and more stable jobs … evaluate the impact of marginal employment on unemployment duration and subsequent job quality, we consider a sample of fresh …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009536462
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Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality
Caliendo, Marco; Kuenn, Steffen; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2012
incentives due to higher net earnings. Additional earnings during unemployment might lead to higher reservation wages prolonging … the duration of unemployment, yet also giving unemployed individuals more time to search for better and more stable jobs … evaluate the impact of marginal employment on unemployment duration and subsequent job quality, we consider a sample of fresh …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014167675
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Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality
Caliendo, Marco - 2012
incentives due to higher net earnings. Additional earnings during unemployment might lead to higher reservation wages prolonging … the duration of unemployment, yet also giving unemployed individuals more time to search for better and more stable jobs … evaluate the impact of marginal employment on unemployment duration and subsequent job quality, we consider a sample of fresh …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107201
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The impact of sanctions for young welfare recipients on transitions to work and wages and on dropping out
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Uhlendorff, Arne; Wolff, Joachim - 2019
The reintegration of young welfare recipients into the labor market is a major policy goal in many European countries. In this context monitoring and sanctions are important policy tools. In this paper, we analyze the impact of strict sanctions on job search outcomes for young welfare recipients...
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Job creation schemes in turbulent times
Bergemann, Annette; Pohlan, Laura; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016
heterogeneity into account. Our results indicate that participation in JCS increases the unemployment duration mainly due to … participants leave unemployment quicker than other groups, which results in highly skilled women benefiting from participation …. However, we find no significant impact on post-unemployment employment stability. Our results are robust to allowing for …
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