Lohnsubventionen und Kombilöhne sind ein fester Bestandteil des arbeitsmarktpolitischen Instrumentariums industrieller Länder. Sie haben das Ziel, Arbeitslose zu motivieren, auch Beschäftigungen mit geringerem Marktlohn anzunehmen sowie den Lebensstandard der Geförderten zu erhöhen und...

Wer einen erwerbsbedingten Abgang aus dem Bezug von Arbeitslosengeld II schafft und was andere daran hindert, eine bedarfsdeckende Erwerbstätigkeit aufzunehmen, ist eine wesentliche Frage für Praxis und Forschung. Anhand der Daten des Panels Arbeitsmarkt und soziale Sicherung (PASS) lässt...

While flexible labour markets offer employment opportunities for unemployed individuals, they might not foster stable employment. This paper studies the determinants of unemployed welfare recipients’ transitions into employment and its stability in Germany. The analyses are based on an inflow...

This review discusses empirical studies on hiring subsidies in the private sector and on schemes directly providing usually public or non-profit sector jobs for the unemployed in Germany. An important effect of hiring subsidies is that they stabilise employment. For employment schemes, results...

At the start of the year 2005 the Social Code II came into force in Germany. The reform introduced a unified means-tested benefit, the unemployment benefit II, for employable people who live in needy households. Prior to this reform they could have either received unemployment assistance benefit...

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...

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...