The promotion of self-employment as part of active labour market policy ranks as one of the most important support schemes in Germany. The main idea is to grant unemployed individuals financial support to start their own business and therefore to escape unemployment. For this purpose two schemes...

"The promotion of self-employment as part of active labour market policy ranks as one of the most important support schemes in Germany. The main idea is to grant unemployed individuals financial support to start their own business and therefore to escape unemployment. For this purpose two...

"The promotion of self-employment as part of active labour market policy ranks as one of the most important support schemes in Germany. The main idea is to grant unemployed individuals financial support to start their own business and therefore to escape unemployment. For this purpose two...

Seit Herbst 2004 kann die berufsbezogene Sprachkompetenz von Arbeitslosen mit Migrationshintergrund in dreimonatigen Maßnahmen zur Vermittlung von Deutschkenntnissen im Rahmen des ESF-BA-Programms gefördert werden - zunächst nur in Westdeutschland, dann ab 2005 bundesweit, aber seitdem...

"We estimate short, medium, and long-run individual labor market effects of training programs for unemployed by following program participation on a monthly basis over a ten-year period. Since analyzing the effectiveness of training over such a long period is impossible with experimental data,...

"Seit Herbst 2004 kann die berufsbezogene Sprachkompetenz von Arbeitslosen mit Migrationshintergrund in dreimonatigen Maßnahmen zur Vermittlung von Deutschkenntnissen im Rahmen des ESF-BA-Programms gefördert werden - zunächst nur in Westdeutschland, dann ab 2005 bundesweit, aber seitdem...

"We estimate short, medium, and long-run individual labor market effects of training programs for unemployed by following program participation on a monthly basis over a ten-year period. Since analyzing the effectiveness of training over such a long period is impossible with experimental data,...

Diese Pilotstudie soll auf der inhaltlichen Ebene erste Erkenntnisse darüber liefern, inwieweit unterschiedliche Vermittlerstrategien und -einstellungen Auswirkungen auf die Wiederbeschäftigungschancen der betreuten Arbeitslosen haben. Auf der methodischen Ebene soll untersucht werden,...

In spite of extensive regulations, Germany's job offices and their caseworkers have substantial discretion in implementing labor market policies. Based on the analysis of combined survey and administrative data, this study compares the effectiveness of different strategies aimed at...

"This pilot study examines the question of how different strategies and attitudes of caseworkers in German job offices influence the chances of re-employment of the job seekers they counsel. We use data from a standardised survey among caseworkers that we combine with administrative data of the...