In Germany, due to special rules 15- to 24-year-old welfare recipients, registered with Public Employment Office, are highly targeted by mandatory activation policies. This paper investigates the effects of the special rules in terms of enhancing the (re-)employment probability, increasing...

Die Untersuchung bewertet für eine Stichprobe von Arbeitslosengeld II-Empfängern die Auswirkungen ihrer Beteiligung an kurzzeitigen Trainingsmaßnahmen in Deutschland. Die Autoren verwenden die Methode des Propensity Score Matching und amtliche Daten über Maßnahmeteilnehmer und für eine...

Zentrales Ziel der Einbindung privater Vermittlungsdienstleister - über so genannte Beauftragungen Dritter mit der gesamten Vermittlung - ist die Einführung von Wettbewerb. Über den Marktmechanismus soll sich die Effektivität der Arbeitsvermittlung erhöhen. Die Studie untersucht die...

In 2005 a major reform of the German means-tested unemployment benefit system came into force. The reform aimed at activating benefit recipients, e.g., by a workfare programme, the so-called One-Euro-Job. This programme was implemented at a large scale. Participants receive their means-tested...

Bringing welfare recipients into jobs is a major goal of German labour market policy since a reform of the year 2005. Direct job creation providing participants with tem-porary subsidized jobs mainly in the non-profit sector plays an important role for achieving this goal. There are three...

The German workfare scheme "One-Euro-Jobs", which provides additional jobs of public interest for welfare recipients, has a number of different goals. On the one hand, One-Euro-Jobs are intended to increase the participants' employment prospects in the medium term. On the other hand, they can be...

The German workfare scheme ‘One-Euro-Jobs’ that provides additional jobs of public interest for welfare recipients has a number of different goals. One the one hand, One-Euro-Jobs are intended to increase the participants’ employment prospects in the medium term. On the other hand, they...