Introduction -- Background for the Empirical Analyses: Institutional Details and Data -- Centralized versus Decentralized Welfare Administration -- The Employment Effects of an Intensified Use of Benefit Sanctions -- The Effectiveness of Temporary Extra Jobs and Short-Term Training Programs --...

Introduction -- The emergence of the work-first prescription -- Welfare reform and access to postsecondary education: national trends -- The implementation of welfare reform: consistency and change -- The workforce investment act: investment or disinvestment? -- The implementation of WIA: does...

While high rates of youth unemployment are a severe problem in most European countries, the program evaluation literature shows that disadvantaged youths constitute a group that is particularly difficult to assist effectively. As innovative measures are thus needed, we evaluate a German pilot...