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Optimal Use of Labor Market Policies : The Role of Job Search Assistance
Wunsch, Conny - 2010
This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is based on a framework, that allows for endogenous choice of benefit types and levels, wage taxes or subsidies, and activation measures such as monitoring and job search assistance...
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Does leaving welfare improve health? : evidence for Germany
Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - 2009
Using exceptionally rich linked administrative and survey information on German welfare recipients we investigate the health effects of transitions from welfare to employment and of assignments to welfare-to-work programmes. Applying semi-parametric propensity score matching estimators we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003894362
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Does Leaving Welfare Improve Health? Evidence for Germany
Huber, Martin - 2009
Using exceptionally rich linked administrative and survey information on German welfare recipients we investigate the health effects of transitions from welfare to employment and of assignments to welfare-to-work programmes. Applying semi-parametric propensity score matching estimators we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157019
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Der Selektionsprozess in Maßnahmen der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik: Eine explorative Untersuchung für die deutsche Arbeitsvermittlung
Yankova, Katerina - 2010
The major research contribution of this paper is an analysis of the selection processes in active labor market programs …. Using findings from existing literature and expert interviews with job placement officers we define a realistic selection … of the selection process and mechanisms is of great importance to evaluation research and help future studies to choose …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286655
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Der Selektionsprozess in Maßnahmen der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik : eine explorative Untersuchung für die deutsche Arbeitsvermittlung
Yankova, Katerina - 2010
market policy ; evaluation, selection ; Hartz-reforms …The major research contribution of this paper is an analysis of the selection processes in active labor market programs …. Using findings from existing literature and expert interviews with job placement officers we define a realistic selection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003985057
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Direct job creation revisited: Is it effective for welfare recipients and does it matter whether participants receive a wage?
Hohmeyer, Katrin; Wolff, Joachim - 2010
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 tem-porary subsidized jobs mainly in the non-profit sector plays an important role for achieving this goal. There are three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286672
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Are active labour market policies effective in activating and integrating low-skilled individuals? An international comparison
Escudero, Verónica - In: IZA journal of labor policy 7 (2018) 4, pp. 1-24
This paper examines the effectiveness of active labour market policies (ALMPs) in improving labour market outcomes, especially of low-skilled individuals, by means of a pooled cross-country and time series database for 31 advanced countries during the period 1985–2010. The analysis includes...
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Who is targeted by One-Euro-Jobs? A Selectivity Analysis
Hohmeyer, Katrin; Kopf, Eva - In: Schmollers Jahrbuch : Journal of Applied Social Science … 129 (2009) 4, pp. 597-636
these reforms is the activation of means-tested benefit recipients by a workfare programme, so-called One …,000 benefit recipients entering the programme per year. Using a sample from early 2005, this study investigates the selection of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611494
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Who is targeted by One-Euro-Jobs? : a selectivity analysis
Hohmeyer, Katrin; Jozwiak, Eva - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
reforms was to activate benefit recipients by a workfare programme, the so-called One-Euro-Job programme. More than 600 … benefit recipients the selection into One-Euro-Jobs in spring 2005 with the help of binary probit models. As there are … substantial gender and regional effects, we estimate the selection equations for men and women in East and West Germany separately …
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Employment stability of entrants in newly founded firms: A matching approach using linked employer-employee data from Germany
Schnabel, Claus; Kohaut, Susanne; Brixy, Udo - 2008
Die Arbeit analysiert unter Verwendung eines verbundenen Arbeitgeber-Arbeitnehmer-Datensatzes einige Auswirkungen des Eintritts in Neugründungen, wobei die Sicht von Individuen statt von Firmen eingenommen wird. Wir zeigen, dass Personen, die in neue Firmen eintreten, sich von Eintretenden in...
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