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Direct job creation revisited: Is it effective for welfare recipients and does it matter whether participants receive a wage?
Wolff, Joachim; Hohmeyer, Katrin - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305957
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Of carrots and sticks: the effect of workfare announcements on the job search behaviour and reservation wage of welfare recipients
Hohmeyer, Katrin; Wolff, Joachim - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 52 (2018) 11, pp. 1-23
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208415
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Give them a break! Did activation of young welfare recipients overshoot in Germany? (A regression discontinuity analysis)
Wolff, Joachim; Nivorozhkin, Anton - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010310111
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Direct job creation revisited: Is it effective for welfare recipients and does it matter whether participants receive a wage?
Hohmeyer, Katrin; Wolff, Joachim - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286672
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Of carrots and sticks: The effect of workfare announcements on the job search behaviour and reservation wage of welfare recipients
Hohmeyer, Katrin; Wolff, Joachim - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527650
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Give them a break! : did activation of young welfare recipients overshoot in Germany? ; (a regression discontinuity analysis)
Nivorožkin, Anton M.; Wolff, Joachim - 2012
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 earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009670776
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Direct job creation revisited : is it effective for welfare recipients and does it matter whether participants receive a wage?
Hohmeyer, Katrin; Wolff, Joachim - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008758006
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Of carrots and sticks : the effect of workfare announcements on the job search behaviour and reservation wage of welfare recipients
Hohmeyer, Katrin; Wolff, Joachim - In: Journal for labour market research 52 (2018) 11, pp. 1-23
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012147151
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Give them a break! Did activation of young welfare recipients overshoot in Germany? (A regression discontinuity analysis)
Wolff, Joachim; Nivorozhkin, Anton - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955212
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Direct job creation revisited: Is it effective for welfare recipients and does it matter whether participants receive a wage?
Wolff, Joachim; Hohmeyer, Katrin - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957296