The German government introduced in 2005 a fundamental labor market reform, which emphasizes the activation of unemployed welfare recipients. A variety of active labor market policies (ALMPs) should help the unemployed find a job or increase their employability. One important activation program...

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...

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...

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...

In 2005, a large-scale direct job creation programme – the so-called One-Euro-Jobs – was introduced in Germany. One-Euro-Jobs are mainly temporary, part-time non-profit-sector jobs, which have to be additional and of public interest. Their central goal is to improve the employability and in...

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...