In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment … this. The results show that IAs early in the spell have on average a small positive effect on entering employment within a … adverse prospects. Among them, being assigned to an early IA increases the probability of re-employment within a year from 45 …

Integration Agreement (IA) are contracts between the employment agency and the unemployed, nudging the latter to comply … individual baseline employability. A small positive effect on entering employment is driven by individuals with adverse prospects …. For them, early IA increase re-employment within a year from 45% to 53%. …

sufficient re-employment prospects of a job-seeker. We comparatively examine the impact of participation for the quantitatively … most important type of training programs before and after the reform by using administrative data of the Federal Employment … training programs had a positive impact on employment prospects already before the reform. Results for the relative short …

to overcome such limitations for Germany by complementing administrative data from the Federal Employment Agency with … innovative survey data. The administrative part of the dataset consists of a large random sample of inflows into unemployment in …,000 individuals who entered unemployment between June 2007 and May 2008. They were initially interviewed shortly after becoming …