"The increasing life expectancy coming along with a birth deficit is expected to lead to an increasing demand for elderly care in Germany in the future. In Germany, private home care, often provided by family members, is given primacy over institutional care. At the same time, a labour market...

"Since 2005, jobless employable individuals have to be available for the labour market with various activation programmes helping them. One major programme is short-term training teaching certain skills or assisting in job search. However, little is known about the effectiveness of such a short...

How does labour market policy affect welfare recipients and long-term unemployed people? We investigate whether job search assistance (JSA) helps disadvantaged individuals to find jobs and whether courses or individual counselling is more successful in reaching this goal. To evaluate individual...

"A major unemployment and welfare benefit reform took place in Germany in 2005. One objective of this reform was to more strongly encourage an adult worker model of the family, with an emphasis on activating the formerly inactive. Our hypothesis is, however, that assignments to activation...

Purpose – Various types of short training programmes exist in Germany. This article aims to evaluate short training courses for welfare recipients and to detect which programme type works best with respect to different outcome indicators. Design/methodology/approach – The author measures the...

"Since 2005, jobless employable individuals have to be available for the labour market with various activation programmes helping them. One major programme is short-term training teaching certain skills or assisting in job search. However, little is known about the effectiveness of such a short...

Purpose – Various types of short training programmes exist in Germany. This article aims to evaluate short training courses for welfare recipients and to detect which programme type works best with respect to different outcome indicators. Design/methodology/approach – The author measures the...

"In 2005 major reforms of the means-tested unemployment benefit system were implemented in Germany. One element of the reforms was to activate benefit recipients by a workfare programme, the so-called One-Euro-Job programme. More than 600,000 benefit recipients entered this programme in the year...

"Die als Ein-Euro-Jobs bekannten Zusatzjobs haben im Rahmen des Sozialgesetzbuches II die Aufgabe, erwerbsfähige, bedürftige Personen, die anderenfalls keine Arbeit finden, wieder an den Arbeitsmarkt heranzuführen. Ferner dienen sie als ein Test auf Arbeitsbereitschaft ('Work-Test'), also zur...

"Arbeitsgelegenheiten in der Entgeltvariante stehen seit Einführung des SGB II im Jahre 2005 als ein Instrument zur Verfügung, mit dem die Beschäftigungsfähigkeit arbeitsloser Bezieher von ALG II erhöht werden soll. Im ersten Jahr wurden über 25.000 Hilfebedürftige durch dieses Instrument...