We evaluate the effects of the most frequently used German welfare-to-work program on the employment chances of immigrant welfare recipients. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between immigrants and natives and what might cause these potential differences. Our results...

This paper assesses the dynamics of treatment effects arising from variation in the duration of training. We use German administrative data that have the extraordinary feature that the amount of treatment varies continuously from 10 days to 395 days (i.e. 13 months). This feature allows us to...

Die Weltwirtschaftskrise trifft den Kern des deutschen Arbeitsmarktes. Vor dem Hintergrund dieser globalen Krise analysiert das Diskussionspapier zunächst die Situation am deutschen Arbeitsmarkt. Auf der Grundlage dieser Analyse werden dann einige zentrale Maßnahmen beschrieben, die geeignet...