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Active labor market programs employment gain or fiscal drain?

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Köttl, Johannes - 2012

This paper provides a new perspective in classifying ALMPs depending on their main objective, also in light of their relevance and cost-effectiveness during normal times, during a crisis, and during recovery. We distinguish ALMPs that provide incentives for retaining employment, incentives for...

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Active labor market programs: Employment gain or fiscal drain?

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Koettl, Johannes - 2012

work sharing schemes, should be applied in severe recessions for a limited time period of time only. ALMPs creating … market, especially during recoveries. In-work benefits and public works are not very cost-efficient in terms of raising …

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What active labor market policy works in a recession?

Forslund, Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Vikström, Johan - 2011

This paper discusses the case for expanding active labor market policy in recession. We find that there is reasonable case for relying more heavily on certain kinds of programs. The argument is tied to the varying size of the lock-in effect in boom and recession. If programs with relatively...

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Activation and active labour market policies in OECD countries : stylised facts and evidence on their effectiveness

Martin, John P. - In: IZA journal of labor policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-29

Activation policies aimed at getting working-age people off benefits and into work have become a buzzword in labour …

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Activation and active labour market policies in OECD countries : stylized facts and evidence on their effectiveness

Martin, John P. - 2014

Activation policies aimed at getting working-age people off benefits and into work have become a buzzword in labour …

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Subsidized work before and after the German Hartz reforms : design of major schemes, evaluation results and lessons learnt

Wolff, Joachim; Stephan, Gesine - In: IZA journal of labor policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-24

This review discusses empirical studies on hiring subsidies in the private sector and on schemes directly providing usually public or non-profit sector jobs for the unemployed in Germany. An important effect of hiring subsidies is that they stabilise employment. For employment schemes, results...

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Training + temp work

Ehlert, Christoph R.; Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra - 2011

While high rates of youth unemployment are a severe problem in most European countries, the program evaluation … components: a) individual coaching, b) classroom training and c) temporary work. Using an ex-post quasi-randomization approach …. -- Program evaluation ; disadvantaged youths ; temporary work ; ALMP …

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Active labour market policies for the long-term unemployed: new evidence from causal machine learning

Goller, Daniel; Harrer, Tamara; Lechner, Michael; … - 2021

We investigate the effectiveness of three different job-search and training programmes for German long-term unemployed persons. On the basis of an extensive administrative data set, we evaluated the effects of those programmes on various levels of aggregation using Causal Machine Learning. We...

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The regional distribution of income and wages : causes and consequences

Immel, Lea - 2021

Lea Immel prepared this study while she was working at the Research Group Taxation and Fiscal Policy at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in September 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical...

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Can subsidized employment tackle long-term unemployment? : experimental evidence from North Macedonia

Armand, Alex; Carneiro, Pedro; Tagliati, Federico; Xia, … - 2020

effects on individuals' non-cognitive and work-related skills. …

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