-specified time limits, are viewed as one important reason for the persistently high level of unemployment in Germany by many …Social assistance and unemployment assistance, which provide means tested income support (social welfare) without pre … components: (i) an integration of unemployment assistance and social assistance; (ii) a substantial reduction of the social …

This paper analyses the effects of a social assistance reform in Germany. In contrast to studies which are based on … reform on wages and unemployment. The simulation results show that general equilibrium wage reactions tend to mitigate labour … supply effects. Moreover, the simulations indicate that substantial employment effects are to be expected only from major …

, we find no significant impact on post-unemployment employment stability. Our results are robust to allowing for random … heterogeneity into account. Our results indicate that participation in JCSs increases the unemployment duration mainly due to … leave unemployment quicker than other groups, which results in highly skilled women benefiting from participation. However …

influences. The results in terms of employment present a mixed picture. For West Germany, most of the estimates are insignificant … quarter of the unemployment spell. For East Germany, none of the groups experiences an improvement of the labour market …Based on new administrative data for Germany covering entrances into job creation schemes between July 2000 and May …

Based on unique administrative data, which has only recently become available, this paper estimates the employment … effects of the most important type of public sector sponsored training in Germany, namely the provision of specific … professional skills and techniques (SPST). Using the inflows into unemployment for the year 1993, the empirical analysis uses local …

This study re-estimates the employment effects of training programs for the unemployed using exogenous variation in … participation caused by budget rules in Germany in the 1980s and early 1990s, resulting in the infamous "end-of-year spending". In …

With the purpose to reduce winter unemployment and to promote all-season employment in the constructions sector …, Germany maintains an extensive bad weather allowance system. Since the mid 1990s, these regulations have been subject to … several reforms that resemble the range of approaches for employment promotion which can be found in other European countries …