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What Works Best for Getting the Unemployed Back toWork: Employment Services or Small-BusinessAssistance Programmes? Evidence from Romania
Rodriguez-Planas, Nuria - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Recent empirical evidence has found that employment services and small-businessassistance programmes are often successful at getting the unemployed back to work. Oneimportant concern of policy makers is to decide which of these two programmes is moreeffective and for whom...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861856
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Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should betargeted. We contrast measures involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities andtargeting the unemployed under the criteria of "approximate welfare efficiency" (AWE)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862794
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Labor Demand During the Crisis:What Happened in Germany?
Bohachova, Olga; Boockmann, Bernhard; Buch, Claudia M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
In Germany, the employment response to the post-2007 crisis has been muted compared toother industrialized countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522204
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Another Economic Miracle?The German Labor Market and the Great Recession
Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
miracle. In response to the crisis, Germany has shown to bea strong case of internal flexibility. We argue that important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486981
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Labor Market Institutions and Unemployment: A Critical Assessment of the Cross-Country Evidence
Baker, Dean; Glyn, Andrew; Howell, David; Schmitt, John - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2003
policies on the evolving pattern of unemployment in OECD countries. Such widely used indicators as the generosity of … unemployment insurance or the strength of trade unions are neither strongly correlated individually with unemployment nor … contribute robust and well defined impacts on unemployment within increasingly sophisticated multivariate literature. Our own …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870241
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Der Arbeitsmarkt in Deutschland: ZwischenStrukturreformen und sozialpolitischem Reflex
Eichhorst, Werner - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Die Arbeitsmarktreformen der letzten Jahre haben die strukturellen Anpassungsproblemedes deutschen Beschäftigungsmodells zum Teil gelindert - allerdings sind noch längst nichtalle Schwierigkeiten überwunden...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861347
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Targeting Labour Market Programmes:Results from a Randomized Experiment
Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assistcaseworkers in Swiss employment offices in choosing appropriate active labour marketprogrammes for their unemployed clients. This statistical support system predicted the labourmarket outcome for each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861647
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Produktivgenossenschaften als Instrument der Arbeitsmarktpolitik. Anmerkungen zum Berliner Förderungskonzept
Kramer, Jost W. - Hochschule <Wismar> / Fachbereich Wirtschaft - 2003
einer Hinsicht Konsens: Mit den bisher eingesetzten Mitteln und Instrumenten ist das Ziel eines Abbaus der Arbeitslosigkeit … einen zählen Genossenschaften überwiegend zu den eher mittelständisch geprägten Unternehmen, die nach wie vor in Deutschland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862836
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Alternative Labor Market Policies to Increase Economic Self-Sufficiency : Mandating Higher Wages, Subsidizing Employment, and Raising Productivity
Neumark, David - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
The principal means by which individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency is through labor market earnings. As a consequence, it is natural for policy makers to look to interventions that increase the ability of individuals and families to achieve an adequate standard of living...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861120
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Unemployment and Finance:How do Financial and Labour Market FactorsInteract?
Gatti, Donatella; Rault, Christophe; Vaubourg, Anne-Gael - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2010
interact to determine unemployment by estimating a dynamicpanel model using the system generalized method of moments (GMM). We … well as decreased banking concentration reduce unemployment ifthe level of labour market regulation, union density and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360503