This paper analyzes the determinants of employability differences between short-term and long-term unemployed persons. Knowing these differences could help to address active labor market policy programs more adequately to the needs of the job-seekers in order to increase employment integration....

We evaluate the effects of the most frequently used German welfare-to-work program on the employment chances of immigrant welfare recipients. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between immigrants and natives and what might cause these potential differences. Our results...

We evaluate the individual employment effects of four types of short-term training for immigrants and natives in the German welfare system and identify differences in the effects determined by unobservable factors. Based on comprehensive and unique administrative data, we apply propensity score...

Der Band gibt einen Überblick über die aktuellen Entwicklungen des Arbeitsmarktes in Niedersachsen und diskutiert zentrale Themenfelder, die zukünftig eine noch größere Bedeutung für Beschäftigung und Arbeit bekommen werden. Hierzu vereint er eine Reihe von Aufsätzen, die aus Anlass des...