Nach ihrer Einführung im Jahre 2005 haben Ein-Euro-Jobs sich zu dem meist verwendeten Instrument der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik für Arbeitslosengeld II-Bezieher entwickelt. In ihrer Gestaltung besteht Spielraum für lokale Akteure, um auf regionale und individuelle Besonderheiten der...

The German "Hartz reforms", introduced by the Red-Green coalition government in the years 2003 to 2005, form part of a broader pattern of European activation policies which have become known as "new labour" policies. The idea of these reforms was to reduce welfare dependency and to boost...

Many Western economies have reformed their welfare systems with the aim of activating welfare recipients by increasing welfare-to-work programmes and job search enforcement. We evaluate the three most important German welfare-to-work programmes implemented after a major reform in January 2005...

Many Western economies have reformed their welfare systems with the aim of activating welfare recipients by increasing welfare-to-work programmes and job search enforcement. We evaluate the three most important German welfare-to-work programmes implemented after a major reform in January 2005...

New Labour has placed great faith in active labour market policies to address problems of long-term unemployment and poverty. This paper considers the effectiveness of welfare-to-work programmes in light of persistent regional employment disparities within the UK. It is argued that the...

This paper asks what governments in the EU Member States and some US states are doing to support workers on low wages. Using model family simulations, we assess the policy measures currently in place to guarantee an adequate disposable income to working families, taking into account minimum...

Ein-Euro-Jobs stehen seit Einführung des SGB II im Jahre 2005 als ein Instrument zur Verfügung, mit dem Arbeitslosengeld II-Bezieher aktiviert werden sollen. Sie wurden in großem Umfang eingeführt, bereits im ersten Jahr gab es mehr als 600.000 Zugänge. Dieses Papier untersucht die...

Many studies have analysed the effectiveness of single active labour market programmes (ALMPs) for welfare recipients in different countries. As empirical evidence reveals that welfare recipients in Germany often participate in multiple programmes, I evaluate the sequential participation of...

Similar to many other European countries, Germany's unemployment policy made a paradigm shift towards activation policy with a tightened monitoring and sanction regime. In our analysis, we examine the impact of benefit sanctions on the probability of getting employed or leaving the labor force....