"From 1992 to 2005, part-time employment in Western Germany has grown by 82 percent, whereas full-time employment has shrunk by 14 percent. Behind these general figures there is substantial variation of employment schemes across industries. Beside this, the share of the service industries in...

"Active labour-market policy (ALMP) not only affects the labour-market success of participants. Due to indirect effects, they might also affect the job perspectives of non-participants. Hence, even if ALMP programmes have a positive effect for the participants, this does not mean that ALMP...

While many studies estimated the effects of active labour market programmes (ALMPs) on the participants' labour market outcomes, much fewer studies are concerned with effects of these policies on the regional matching-process between job seekers and vacancies. An essential part of many reforms...

Bei einer alternden Bevölkerung und hohem Fachkräftebedarf ist es besonders wichtig, die Beschäftigungschancen älterer Menschen zu verbessern. Deutschlandweit waren im Jahresdurchschnitt 2016 gut 550.000 Personen im Alter von über 54 Jahren arbeitslos gemeldet. Bei einer Befragung von...

Der Kurzbericht präsentiert empirische Befunde über den Umfang der Leiharbeit auf der Basis der Arbeitnehmerüberlassungsstatistik. Mit der Beschäftigtenstatistik der Bundesagentur für Arbeit wird anschließend die Entwicklung der Leiharbeit für verschiedene regionale Abgrenzungen...

Kunden aktivieren - Integrationsleistung verbessern' ist ein Modellprojekt, bei dem im Mai 2007 in 14 ausgewählten Dienststellen der BA die Zahl der Vermittlungsfachkräfte erhöht wurde. Mit einer Laufzeit bis Ende 2012 soll das Projekt unter anderem Auskunft darüber geben, ob so die...

"In this paper we examine the effect of a pilot project of the German Federal Employment Agency, where in 14 German local employment offices the caseload (number of unemployed per caseworker) was significantly reduced. Since the participating local offices were not chosen at random, we have to...

Purpose – The paper aims to present an analysis of the indirect and direct effects of active labour market policy measures at the regional level for Western Germany. Design/methodology/approach – Most evaluation studies of active labour market policy focus on the microeconometric treatment...

"From 1992 to 2005, part-time employment in Western Germany has grown by 82 percent, whereas full-time employment has shrunk by 14 percent. Behind these general figures there is substantial variation of employment schemes across industries. Beside this, the share of the service industries in...

"In this paper we examine the effect of a pilot project of the German Federal Employment Agency, where in 14 German local employment offices the caseload (number of unemployed per caseworker) was significantly reduced. Since the participating local offices were not chosen at random, we have to...