Der Beitrag gibt einen ergebnisorientierten Überblick über den Stand der Evaluation der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland. Die Befunde weisen darauf hin, dass keine der bisherigen Instrumentengruppen überflüssig ist. Die meisten Maßnahmen können die Beschäftigungschancen...

To address the problem of high reservation wages among older unemployed individuals, a German targeted wage support program aimed at providing incentives to accept lower paid wage offers. We sent out information brochures on this program to randomly selected eligible men. The treatment...

In jüngerer Vergangenheit gelang es einigen Berufsgruppen – begünstigt durch die berufsständische Gliederung des deutschen Arbeitsmarktes – eine soziale Schließung zu betreiben sowie unterstützt durch Berufsgewerkschaften eigenständig tarifpolitisch zu agieren und hohe Gehaltszuwächse...

In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment agency and the unemployed, jointly signed by the latter and the caseworker. IAs stipulate rights and obligations but are generally perceived as instruments to control search...

Kurzarbeitergeld soll Betrieben in Krisenzeiten helfen, Entlassungen zu vermeiden, und den Lohn von Beschäftigten vorübergehend sichern. Anlässlich der Covid-19-Pandemie wurden die Konditionen beim Bezug von Kurzarbeitergeld vorübergehend großzügiger ausgestaltet. Das IAB hat Menschen, die...

The FIS-funded project "Acceptance of social- and labor market programs and regulations" asks citizens about their assessment of specific design alternatives for social and labor market policies in Germany. This report describes the design and the field organization of the first online survey...

The FIS-funded project "Acceptance of social and labor market programs and regulations" asks citizens about their assessment of specific design alternatives for social and labor market policies in Germany. This report describes the design and the field organization of the second online survey...

For Germany, we analyse the (relative) effects of participation in several active labour market programmes on the employment prospects of participants. First, our results show that different matching algorithms result in different severe problems of common support. Second, we obtain favourable...

Our paper estimates the average effect of wage subsidies - paid to employers for a limited period of time - on the labour market prospects of needy job-seekers without access to insurance-paid 'unemployment benefit I'. The results show that wage subsidies had large and significant favourable...