"A major unemployment and welfare benefit reform took place in Germany in 2005. One objective of this reform was to more strongly encourage an adult worker model of the family, with an emphasis on activating the formerly inactive. Our hypothesis is, however, that assignments to activation...

Die Integration von arbeitsuchenden Personen in den Arbeitsmarkt gehört zu den wichtigsten Aufgaben der Arbeitsmarktpolitik. Aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik wie z. B. die Fort- und Weiterbildung von Arbeitsuchenden soll dabei helfen. Aber erst in diesem Jahrtausend wurde die Analyse der Wirkungen...

"The German workfare programme 'One-Euro-Jobs' can be used for different goals. On the one hand, they aim at improving employment prospects of long-term jobless welfare recipients. On the other hand, they can also be used to test the willingness to work of welfare recipients. Based on data from...

"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 temporary subsidized jobs mainly in the non-profit sector plays an important role for achieving this goal. There are three...

"Die Integration von arbeitsuchenden Personen in den Arbeitsmarkt gehört zu den wichtigsten Aufgaben der Arbeitsmarktpolitik. Aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik wie z. B. die Fort- und Weiterbildung von Arbeitsuchenden soll dabei helfen. Aber erst in diesem Jahrtausend wurde die Analyse der Wirkungen...

"Sequential strategies of assigning persons to different subsequent programmes play an important role in the activation of unemployed people through active labour market programmes. Especially for unemployment benefit II recipients it could be necessary to participate in different programmes to...

"In 2005 major reforms of the means-tested unemployment benefit system were implemented in Germany. One element of the reforms was to activate benefit recipients by a workfare programme, the so-called One-Euro-Job programme. More than 600,000 benefit recipients entered this programme in the year...

"In 2005 major reforms of the means-tested unemployment benefit system were implemented in Germany. One element of the reforms was to activate benefit recipients by a workfare programme, the so-called One-Euro-Job programme. More than 600,000 benefit recipients entered this programme in the year...

"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 temporary subsidized jobs mainly in the non-profit sector plays an important role for achieving this goal. There are three...