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Intensifying the use of benefit sanctions: An effective tool to increase employment?
Boockmann, Bernhard; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 3 (2014), pp. 1-19
In Germany, imposition of benefit cuts for non-compliant welfare recipients depends on the policy of the local welfare agencies resulting in considerable regional variation, expressed in milder and stricter sanction regimes. Findings from international studies show, that benefit sanctions can...
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Young beneficiaries’ routes off benefits through labour market integration: the case of Germany
Schels, Brigitte - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 44 (2011) 3, pp. 261-278
The study explores routes off benefits through labour market integration for young adults in Germany. Policies for young people are focused on a rapid integration into employment or training to prevent long-term benefits dependency. The causes of long-term benefits receipt can be related to poor...
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Should local public employment services be merged with local social benefit administrations?
Holzner, Christian; Munz, Sonja - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 46 (2013) 2, pp. 83-102
The German Federal government has allowed local governments of some regions (Approved Local Providers) to be solely responsible for the care of unemployment benefit II recipients. In the remaining regions Joint Local Agencies were formed, where the local social benefit administrations work...
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Can public works programs mitigate the impact of crises in Europe? The case of Latvia
Azam, Mehtabul; Ferré, Céline; Ajwad, Mohamed - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-21
To mitigate the impact of the 2008-2010 global financial crisis on vulnerable households, the Government of Latvia established Workplaces with Stipends, an emergency public works program that targeted registered unemployed people who were not receiving unemployment benefits. This paper evaluates...
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Long-term unemployment and the capability approach: The case of the German labor market
Olejniczak, Michael - In: Management Revue 23 (2012) 2, pp. 140-157
This text focuses on long-term unemployment in the German labor market caused by insufficient work skills capabilities and discusses the deficits of the current policy in improving the situation of job seekers who are repeatedly rejected in their efforts to find a job. For both the German...
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Of carrots and sticks: the effect of workfare announcements on the job search behaviour and reservation wage of welfare recipients
Hohmeyer, Katrin; Wolff, Joachim - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 52 (2018) 11, pp. 1-23
The German workfare scheme "One-Euro-Jobs", which provides additional jobs of public interest for welfare recipients, has a number of different goals. On the one hand, One-Euro-Jobs are intended to increase the participants' employment prospects in the medium term. On the other hand, they can be...
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Impact of private and public initiatives on individuals' employment and income during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Peru
Mongrut, Samuel Arturo; Cruz, Vivian; Pacussich, Daniela - In: Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Science 29 (2024) 57, pp. 57-76
Purpose - The Purpose - of this paper is to determine the impact of private and public initiatives (financial literacy, entrepreneurship, remote work and government aid) on individual job loss and decrease in income during the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru. Design/methodology/approach The authors...
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The effect of gender and code of ethics on budgetary slack ethical judgment: Experimental evidence from Indonesia
Lucyanda, Jurica; Sholihin, Mahfud - In: Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Science 28 (2023) 56, pp. 273-286
of gender and code of ethics on budgetary slack ethical judgment. Design/methodology/approach This study adopts the … gender affects budgetary slack ethical judgment, in which women judge budgetary slack as more unethical than men … literature by identifying the effect of gender and code of ethics on budgetary slack righteous judgment. …
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On households and unemployment insurance
Choi, Sekyu; Valladares-Esteban, Arnau - In: Quantitative Economics 11 (2020) 1, pp. 437-469
household they live in: some agents live alone while others live with their spouses as a family. Our exercise is motivated by … with special emphasis on matching differences in labor market transitions across gender and marital status as well as …
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Female labor force participation and child education in India: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
Afridi, Farzana; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Sahoo, Soham - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 5 (2016) 7, pp. 1-27
We exploit the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme to identify exogenous shifts in mothers' labor force participation and its impact on their children's educational outcomes. Using child level panel data, we find that a mother's participation in the labor force...
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