This paper estimates substitution effects of the German active labour market programme "JobPerspektive", a wage subsidy for hard-to-place welfare recipients. Using a novel panel of the entire population of German establishments with full information on unsubsidized and subsidized employment,...

This text focuses on long-term unemployment in the German labor market caused by insufficient work skills capabilities and discusses the deficits of the current policy in improving the situation of job seekers who are repeatedly rejected in their efforts to find a job. For both the German...

Does regional unemployment increase or rather decrease entrepreneurial activity? Although this question has been hotly debated among researchers for decades the answers yielded so far are ambiguous and inconclusive. The paper proposes an innovative approach that takes not only interregional...

Das IAB äußert sich in dieser Stellungnahme zu ausgewählten Aspekten des Gesetzentwurfes der Regierungsfraktionen CDU/CSU und FDP sowie der Anträge der Fraktionen Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, Die Linke und SPD. Sie betreffen die Begründung des Regelbedarfs (insbesondere zur Bestimmung der...

Die Arbeitsmarktforschung und Erkenntnisse aus dem operativen Geschäft haben gezeigt, dass es relevante Personengruppen im Bereich des Zweiten Buches Sozialgesetzbuch (SGB II) gibt, deren Chancen auf Integration in ungeförderte Beschäftgung marginal sind. Da diese Personen, vom Gesetzgeber...

We evaluate a wage subsidy program that is targeted at long-term unemployed workers in Germany. We use an alternative identification procedure compared to empirical studies con­ducted so far. Exploiting the particular program regulations and large administrative data we estimate the impact of...