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Low pay as an alternative to public direct job creation? : lessons from the German case
Eichhorst, Werner - 2015
sort of paradigm shift that goes beyond active labor market policies and public direct job creation in favor of allowing …
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Do active labour market policies for welfare recipients in Germany raise their regional outflow into work? : a matching function approach
Wapler, Rüdiger; Wolf, Katja; Wolff, Joachim - 2018
outcomes, much fewer studies are concerned with effects of these policies on the regional matching-process between job seekers … activate unemployed job-seekers through an intense use of ALMPs. Therefore, it is crucial to understand whether such policies … can improve the matching efficiency. We analyse quarterly panel data of German job centres in the period 2006 to 2011 and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011805605
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Evaluation der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik : ein Sachstandsbericht für die Instrumentenreform 2011
Heyer, Gerd; Koch, Susanne; Stephan, Gesine; Wolff, Joachim - 2011
Der Beitrag gibt einen ergebnisorientierten Überblick über den Stand der Evaluation der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik in …- und Ausbildungsmarkt bei. -- Evaluation der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik ; Instrumentenreform ; Maßnahmen zur Verbesserung … training and classroom training raise the employment rates of participants. According to the evaluation literature direct job …
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Eine neue Ordnung der Arbeit: Herausforderungen für die Politik
Bosch, Gerhard - In: Arbeit der Zukunft : Möglichkeiten nutzen, Grenzen setzen, (pp. 480-499). 2015
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Beschäftigung Älterer in Deutschland: der unvollständige Paradigmenwechsel
Eichhorst, Werner - 2006
formation through life-long learning and a consistent strategy to activate older job seekers. …
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Arbeitsmarktpolitik: falsche Anreize vermeiden, Fehlentwicklungen korrigieren
Brenke, Karl; Eichhorst, Werner - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 79 (2010) 1, pp. 56-84
Nach den umfassenden Reformen in den Jahren 2003 bis 2005, die erheblich zur Flexibilisierung des Arbeitsmarktes beigetragen haben, besteht der Reformbedarf nun im Wesentlichen in der Nachjustierung einzelner Maßnahmen und der Korrektur politikbedingter Fehlentwicklungen. Die Bundesregierung...
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Does the estimation of the propensity score by machine learning improve matching estimation? : the case of Germany's programmes for long term unemployed
Goller, Daniel; Lechner, Michael; Moczall, Andreas; … - 2019
Matching-type estimators using the propensity score are the major workhorse in active labour market policy evaluation. This work investigates if machine learning algorithms for estimating the propensity score lead to more credible estimation of average treatment effects on the treated using a...
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Are there austerity‐related policy changes in Germany?
Eichhorst, Werner; Hassel, Anke - 2015
This paper assesses the existence and the extent of austerity‐oriented policies in Germany in the aftermath of the 2008‐9 recession. In contrast to the intensive phase of labour market and welfare state reforms in the early 2000s aimed at 'welfare readjustment', we do not see austerity...
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Contingent convergence : a comparative analysis of activation policies
Eichhorst, Werner (contributor);  … - 2008
The trend towards activation has been one of the major issues in recent welfare and labour market reforms in Europe and the US. Despite considerable initial variation across national models with respect to the scope and intensity of activation, redefining the link between social protection and...
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Direct job creation revisited : is it effective for welfare recipients and does it matter whether participants receive a wage?
Hohmeyer, Katrin; Wolff, Joachim - 2010
. Direct job creation providing participants with tem-porary subsidized jobs mainly in the non-profit sector plays an important … role for achieving this goal. There are three schemes that differ only with respect to a few features: traditional job … these three job creation schemes for welfare recipients starting their participation in these programmes in mid 2005 …
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