This article provides a result-oriented view on the current status of German active labor market policy evaluation. The literature shows that nearly all groups of instruments positively affect the labor market prospects of at least particular groups of participants. However, regarding the...

Die als Ein-Euro-Jobs bekannten Zusatzjobs haben im Rahmen des Sozialgesetzbuches II die Aufgabe erwerbsfähige, bedürftige Personen, die anderenfalls keine Arbeit finden, wieder an den Arbeitsmarkt heranzuführen. Ferner dienen sie als ein Test auf Arbeitsbereitschaft ("Work-Test"), also zur...

Arbeitsgelegenheiten in der Entgeltvariante stehen seit Einführung des SGB II im Jahre 2005 als ein Instrument zur Verfügung, mit dem die Beschäftigungsfähigkeit arbeitsloser Bezieher von ALG II erhöht werden soll. Im ersten Jahr wurden über 25.000 Hilfebedürftige durch dieses Instrument...

"The German workfare programme 'One-Euro-Jobs' can be used for different goals. On the one hand, they aim at improving employment prospects of long-term jobless welfare recipients. On the other hand, they can also be used to test the willingness to work of welfare recipients. Based on data from...

"This article provides a result-oriented view on the current status of German active labor market policy evaluation. The literature shows that nearly all groups of instruments positively affect the labor market prospects of at least particular groups of participants. However, regarding the...

"Bringing welfare recipients into jobs is a major goal of German labour market policy since a reform of the year 2005. Direct job creation providing participants with temporary subsidized jobs mainly in the non-profit sector plays an important role for achieving this goal. There are three...

"This article provides a result-oriented view on the current status of German active labor market policy evaluation. The literature shows that nearly all groups of instruments positively affect the labor market prospects of at least particular groups of participants. However, regarding the...

"In 2005 a major reform of the German means-tested unemployment benefit system came into force. The reform aimed at activating benefit recipients, e.g., by a workfare programme, the so-called One-Euro-Job. This programme was implemented at a large scale. Participants receive their means-tested...

"Contracting out placement services aims at enhancing the effectiveness of placements of unemployed job-seekers through market mechanisms. This paper analyses the effectiveness of the temporary assignment of needy job-seekers to private placement services by comparing their outcomes with respect...

"This paper estimates for a sample of means-tested unemployment benefit recipients the effects of their participation in short-term training programmes in Germany. We apply propensity score matching and rely on a large sample of treated and controls from administrative data, which in contrast to...