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Labour Market Reform in Germany: How to Improve Effectiveness
Wurzel, Eckhard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006
les politiques actives du marché du travail pourraient être conçues de manière à favoriser davantage le retour à l'emploi … des chômeurs, et la réforme institutionnelle du service public de l'emploi doit être poursuivie. S'agissant de la demande … de main-d'oeuvre, l'efficience du système de protection de l'emploi pourrait être améliorée. Par ailleurs, il y aurait …
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Low pay as an alternative to public direct job creation? Lessons from the German case
Eichhorst, Werner - 2015
This contribution draws some conclusions from the experience of attempts by the German government at integrating the most vulnerable groups into the labor market, in particular the long-term unemployed and the low skilled. There has been a sort of paradigm shift that goes beyond active labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348250
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Contingent convergence : a comparative analysis of activation policies
Eichhorst, Werner (contributor);  … - 2008
The trend towards activation has been one of the major issues in recent welfare and labour market reforms in Europe and the US. Despite considerable initial variation across national models with respect to the scope and intensity of activation, redefining the link between social protection and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793501
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Work incentives? : ex post effects of unemployment insurance sanctions ; evidence from West Germany
Hofmann, Barbara - 2008
Unemployment insurance (UI) sanctions in the form of benefit reductions are intended to set disincentives for UI recipients to stay unemployed. Empirical evidence about the effects of UI sanctions in Germany is sparse. Using administrative data we investigate the effects of sanctions on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003805997
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Reduction of employment protection in Europe : a comparative fuzzy-set analysis
Ochel, Wolfgang; Rohwer, Anja - 2009
Since the middle of the 1980s many European countries have reduced the strictness of their employment protection mainly by relaxing it for temporary jobs. These countries are Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. The article explores the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003897340
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Optimal use of labor market policies : the role of job search assistance
Wunsch, Conny - 2010
This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is based on a framework, that allows for endogenous choice of benefit types and levels, wage taxes or subsidies, and activation measures such as monitoring and job search assistance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003940543
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Can training programs or rather wage subsidies bring the unemployed back to work? : a theoretical and empirical investigation for Germany
Neubäumer, Renate - 2010
Our paper investigates the relative effects of wage subsidies and further vocational training on the subsequent employment prospects of previously unemployed program participants. First, we outline a theoretical approach based on a firm's hiring decision. For the relative effectiveness of both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003950725
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Kundenbetreuung aus einer Hand im SGB II? : Integration versus Spezialisierung von Fallmanagement, Vermittlung und materiellen Leistungen
Strotmann, Harald; Rosemann, Martin; Dann, Sabine; … - 2010
Mit der Einführung des SGB II im Jahr 2005 hat der Gesetzgeber den Grundsicherungsstellen vor Ort große Spielräume bei der Umsetzung des SGB II und der konkreten Ausgestaltung der Organisation zentraler Leistungsprozesse eingeräumt. Das SGB II hat somit nicht nur zu einem Wettbewerb zwischen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003951128
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Estimating the impact of immigrants on the host country social security system when return migration is an endogenous choice
Kirdar, Murat G. - 2010
In this paper, I estimate the fiscal impact of immigrants on the German pension insurance (PI) and unemployment insurance (UI) systems when return migration is an endogenous choice. For this purpose, I develop a dynamic stochastic model of joint return migration and saving decisions that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959164
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The effectiveness of targeted wage subsidies for hard-to-place workers
Jaenichen, Ursula; Stephan, Gesine - 2007
Targeted wage subsidies paid to employers are an important element of active labour market policies in Germany. This paper uses propensity score matching to investigate their effect on subsidised hard-to-place workers. In a first scenario, we estimate the average treatment effect of a subsidy on...
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