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Impact of welfare sanctions on employment and benefit receipt : considering top-up benefits and indirect sanctions

Hohenleitner, Ingrid; Hillmann, Katja - 2019

This comprehensive study on UB-II-sanctions in Germany, applying PSM, presents the ex-post effects of welfare sanctions on several employment states for diverse (sub-)groups of employable welfare recipients. Besides unemployed, we also regard employed, and indirectly affected household members....

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Impact of welfare sanctions on the quality of subsequent employment : wages, incomes, and employment stability

Hohenleitner, Ingrid; Hillmann, Katja - 2019

This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of sanction effects on post-welfare employment quality in Europe using the outcome variables daily wage, yearly income, and covering job stability with the durations of three employment states: employed, unemployed, and supplementary benefit...

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The Effect of Sanctions and Active Labour Market Programmes on the Exit Rate from Unemployment

Ahmad, Nisar; Svarer, Michael - 2009

out of unemployment along with the sanction rate and hazard rate into active labour market programmes. We optimally select …

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Work Incentive and Other Effects of Social Assistance and Unemployment Benefit Policy in the Czech Republic

Erbenova, Michaela; Sorm, Vit; Terrell, Katherine - 1999

In this paper we provide an account of most of the passive labor market policies (unemployment compensation, social … unemployed people receiving unemployment benefits with those receiving social assistance and those not receiving any benefits and … effects of the unemployment and social assistance benefits by comparing these benefits to market wages and by analyzing the …

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Differential Effects of Swedish Active Labour Market Programmes for Unemployed Adults During the 1990s

Sianesi, Barbara - 2003

adult unemployed workers entitled to unemployment benefits in the 1990s: labour market training, workplace introduction … differential performance of the programmes both relative to one another and vis-a-vis more intense job search in open unemployment …. Outcomes being assessed are short- and long-term employment rates as well as the probability of collecting unemployment …

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Reforming Unemployment Insurance : Towards Greater Employment

Levin-Waldman, Oren M. - 1998

The purpose of this paper is to argue the need for unemployment insurance reform. At a minimum the system needs to be …

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Empirical evaluation of broader job search requirements for unemployed workers

Klaauw, Bas van der; Vethaak, Heike - 2022

This paper analyses data from a large-scale field experiment where unemployed workers were randomly assigned to an additional caseworker meeting with the purpose to impose a broader job search strategy. We find that the meeting significantly increases job finding and is cost effective. However,...

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Safety net or helping hand? : the effect of job search assistance and compensation on displaced workers

Fackler, Daniel; Stegmaier, Jens; Upward, Richard - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2023

We provide the first systematic evidence on the effectiveness of a contested policy in Germany to help displaced workers. So-called “transfer companies” (Transfergesellschaften) employ displaced workers for a fixed period, during which time workers are provided with job-search assistance and...

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Linking information on unemployment benefit sanctions from different datasets about welfare receipt : proceedings and research potential

Schmidtke, Julia - In: Journal for labour market research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-19

Most studies on benefit sanctions within the German welfare system rely on established datasets about welfare receipt. This paper analyzes how using a dataset from the operational system of the German Federal Employment Agency for processing welfare claims can contribute to further research on...

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Reemployment premium effect of furlough programs : evaluating Spain's scheme during the COVID-19 crisis

Garcia-Clemente, J.; Rubino, N.; Congregado, E. - In: Journal for labour market research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-9

This paper presents an average treatment effect analysis of Spain’s furlough program during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using 2020 labour force quarterly microdata, we construct a counterfactual made of comparable nonfurloughed individuals who lost their jobs and apply propensity score...

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