sind. Ein alternativer, ursachenorientierter Ansatz ist die Senkung des sozialen Leistungsniveaus durch Workfare. Eine … creates parttime incentives beyond the target group of the low qualified. As an alternative, we assess the labor market impact … of a workfare strategy. The potential wages of transfer recipients, estimated on the basis of the German Socio …

Workfare policies are often introduced in labour market policies to improve the trade-off between incentives and … equilibrium search framework, we show that the effects of workfare policies critically depend on the response of those not in the … programme when they take into account that workfare is a condition for remaining eligible for unemployment benefits. This …

workfare. To that end we develop a quantitative model of equilibrium unemployment. The model features worker heterogeneity … monitoring and sanctions restores search incentives most effectively, since it brings additional incentives to search actively so … monitoring and sanctions than in the other two systems. Workfare appears to be inferior to the other two systems …