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Carrot and stick: How reemployment bonuses and benefit sanctions affect job finding rates
van der Klaauw, Bas; van Ours, Jan C. - 2010
To increase their transition from welfare to work, benefit recipients in the municipality of Rotterdam were exposed to various financial incentives, including both carrots to sticks. Once their benefit spell exceeded one year, welfare recipients were entitled to a reemployment bonus if they...
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Carrot and Stick: How Reemployment Bonuses and Benefit Sanctions affect Job Finding Rates
van der Klaauw, Bas; van Ours, Jan C. - 2010
To increase their transition from welfare to work, benefit recipients in the municipality of Rotterdam were exposed to various financial incentives, including both carrots to sticks. Once their benefit spell exceeded one year, welfare recipients were entitled to a reemployment bonus if they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326047
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The impact of participation in job creation schemes in turbulent times
Bergemann, Annette; Pohlan, Laura; Uhlendorff, Arne - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 47 (2017), pp. 182-201
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Carrot and stick : how reemployment bonuses and benefit sanctions affect job finding rates
Klaauw, Bas van der; Ours, Jan C. van - 2010
To increase their transition from welfare to work, benefit recipients in the municipality of Rotterdam were exposed to various financial incentives, including both carrots to sticks. Once their benefit spell exceeded one year, welfare recipients were entitled to a reemployment bonus if they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011380926
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Kommunale Arbeitsmarktpolitik mit Hebelwirkung
Bosch, Gerhard; Knuth, Matthias; Mühge, Gernot; … - 1999
Die Wirtschafts- und Beschäftigungsförderung Dortmund verfügt mit dem KommunalenArbeitsmarktfonds seit 1989 über ein Instrument der Anlauf- und Spitzenfinanzierung, mit demsie arbeitsmarktpolitisch geförderte Beschäftigungsprojekte in Dortmund initiiert oder ihrZustandekommen erst...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005857192
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The IZA Evaluation Dataset:Towards Evidence-Based Labor Policy-Making
Caliendo, Marco; Falk, Armin; Kaiser, Lutz C.; … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
The evaluation of labor market policies has become an important issue in many Europeancountries. In recent years, a …. Therefore, information that might be relevantfor economic modeling is often absent. The IZA Evaluation Dataset aims to overcome … sampling andcontents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset and outlines the future development.... …
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Individual Incentives in Program Participation : Splitting up the Process in Assignment and Enrollment
Weber, Andrea - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
In this paper we investigate two stages in the process that leads to participation in ALMP programs. We use unique administrative data from the Austrian unemployment registers which allow us to distinguish between caseworker assignment and actual program enrollment. Although 25% of newly...
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Dann warens nur noch vier Wie viele (und welche) Maßnahmen der aktivenArbeitsmarktpolitik brauchen wir noch?
Eichhorst, Werner; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Die deutsche Arbeitsmarktpolitik ist im Zuge der Hartz-Reformen grundsätzlich neustrukturiert und systematisch evaluiert worden. Die vorliegenden Evaluationsberichte derersten drei Hartz-Gesetze belegen nun vielfach, welche Instrumente der aktivenArbeitsmarktpolitik sich durch ihre Wirksamkeit...
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Evaluating an innovative redundancy-retraining project : the Austrian Steel Foundation
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2001
This paper evaluates an Austrian manpower training program, which is highly innovative in its content and financing – and could therefore serve as a role model for other programs. In the late 1980s privatization and down-sizing of nationalized steel firms have lead to large-scale redundancies....
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Estimating the effects of public training on Polish unemployment by way of the augmented matching function approach
Puhani, Patrick A. - 1999
We analyse Polish active labour market policy (ALMP) training programmes from a macroeconomic (regional) point of view. The effects of training programmes on the outflows from unemployment and the effects of all ALMP programmes on the outflows from employment (to identify displacement effects)...
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