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Do German welfare-to-work programmes reduce welfare and increase work?
Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny; Walter, … - 2009
Many Western economies have reformed their welfare systems with the aim of activating welfare recipients by increasing welfare-to-work programmes and job search enforcement. We evaluate the three most important German welfare-to-work programmes implemented after a major reform in January 2005...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003829742
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Do German Welfare-to-Work Programmes Reduce Welfare and Increase Work?
Huber, Martin - 2009
Many Western economies have reformed their welfare systems with the aim of activating welfare recipients by increasing welfare-to-work programmes and job search enforcement. We evaluate the three most important German welfare-to-work programmes implemented after a major reform in January 2005...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764217
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The intergenerational effects of requiring unemployment benefit recipients to engage in non-search activities
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Dahmann, Sarah Christina; … - 2020
We use a quasi-experimental design and national administrative data to analyze the intergenerational effects of introducing non-search activity requirements for unemployment benefit recipients. The Mutual Obligations Initiative (MOI) required people aged 18-34 receiving unemployment benefits to...
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Active labour-market policies in Germany : do regional labour markets benefit?
Wapler, Rüdiger; Werner, Daniel; Wolf, Katja - 2014
Aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik (AAMP) beeinflusst nicht nur den Arbeitsmarkterfolg der Teilnehmer, sondern kann durch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010460947
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Switching from an inclining to a zero-level unemployment benefit profile : good for work incentives?
Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Inga, Leda - 2020
This paper evaluates the impact on the transition to work of a policy reform in Belgium that restricted the access to a specific unemployment insurance scheme for young labor market entrants. This scheme entitles youths with no or little labor market experience to unemployment benefits after a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012178706
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Switching from an inclining to a zero-level unemployment benefit profile : good for work incentives?
Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Inga, Leda - 2020
This paper evaluates the impact on the transition to work of a policy reform in Belgium that restricted the access to a specific unemployment insurance scheme for young labor market entrants. This scheme entitles youths with no or little labor market experience to unemployment benefits after a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171646
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Modeling Financial Incentives to Get Unemployed Back to Work
van Ours, Jan C.; Boone, Jan - 2021
We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only micro effects concerning the behavior of individual unemployed workers are relevant, but also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321326
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Switching from an inclining to a zero-level unemployment benefit profile : good for work incentives?
Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Inga, Leda - 2020
This paper evaluates the impact on the transition to work of a policy reform in Belgium that restricted the access to a specific unemployment insurance scheme for young labor market entrants. This scheme entitles youths with no or little labor market experience to unemployment benefits after a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012166076
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Labor market reforms in Europe : towards more flexicure labor markets?
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Wehner, Caroline - 2016
Labor market segmentation refers to a salient divide between secure and insecure jobs and is related to problems in important areas, including macro‐economic efficiency, workers' wellbeing and repercussions for social cohesion. European countries have started a new wave of labor market reforms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455858
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A theoretical rationale for flexicurity policies based on education
Davoine, Thomas - 2015
The paper provides a theoretical rationale for flexicurity policies, which consist of low employment protection …, generous unemployment insurance and active labor market programmes. It analyzes in which conditions flexicurity can be optimal … thus provides incentives for costly self-insurance against unemployment risk through education, mitigating the moral hazard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500612