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Mandatory integration agreements for unemployed job seekers: a randomized controlled field experiment in Germany
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Stephan, Gesine - 2021
In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment agency and the unemployed, jointly signed by the latter and the caseworker. IAs stipulate rights and obligations but are generally perceived as instruments to control search...
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Mandatory integration agreements for unemployed job seekers: a randomized controlled field experiment in Germany
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Stephan, Gesine - 2021
Integration Agreement (IA) are contracts between the employment agency and the unemployed, nudging the latter to comply with rules on search behavior. We designed and implemented an RCT involving thousands of newly unemployed workers, randomizing at the individual level both the timing of the IA...
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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016
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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016
Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex-ante...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414725
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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016
Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418245
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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016
Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449662
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Was Vermittlungsfachkräfte von Eingliederungsvereinbarungen halten : Befragungsergebnisse aus einem Modellprojekt
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Stephan, Gesine - 2014
Eingliederungsvereinbarungen zwischen Arbeitsagenturen und Arbeitsuchenden dokumentieren die Vermittlungsbemühungen der Agentur wie auch die Eigenbemühungen und Nachweispflichten der Arbeitsuchenden. Im Rahmen eines Modellprojekts haben ausgewählte Arbeitsagenturen den Zeitpunkt für den...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419500
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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011855287
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Work incentives? : ex post effects of unemployment insurance sanctions ; evidence from West Germany
Hofmann, Barbara - 2008
Unemployment insurance (UI) sanctions in the form of benefit reductions are intended to set disincentives for UI recipients to stay unemployed. Empirical evidence about the effects of UI sanctions in Germany is sparse. Using administrative data we investigate the effects of sanctions on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003805997
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Neugestaltung der Förderinstrumente für Arbeitslose : zum Gesetzentwurf zur Verbesserung der Eingliederungschancen am Arbeitsmarkt ; öffentliche Anhörung von Sachverständigen vor d...
Bellmann, Lutz; Bender, Stefan; Bernhard, Stefan; … - 2011
Beschäftigung neu ordnen. Die Absicht der Bundesregierung, die Effektivität und Effizienz der Arbeitsmarktpolitik durch mehr … (Sozialgesetzbuch Zweites Buch). In ihren Anträgen kritisieren die Fraktionen von SPD ("Arbeitsmarktpolitik an den Herausforderungen der …/6454), Bündnis 90/Die Grünen ("Arbeitsmarktpolitik - In Beschäftigung und Perspektiven investieren statt Chancen kürzen …
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