Die anhaltend hohe Arbeitslosigkeit hat zu neuen Ansätzen in der Arbeitsmarktund Strukturpolitik geführt. „Teilzeitplus“ ist ein Instrument zur Förderung von Unternehmen, Beschäftigten und Kommunen, welches auf KMU in Krisensituationen zielt. Dabei wurde eine komplexe Mehrfachstrategie...

Reducing disparities among regions within European countries is the aim of European and national structural policies. In particular, a European grant contributes to the German governmental program for equalizing regional unemployment. The goal is to bring it down to the national average by...

Interkommunale Bündnisse und Wissensnetzwerke spielen in der lokalen Beschäftigungspolitik eine zunehmend wichtige Rolle. An diesen Allianzen der administrativen Wissensschöpfung lassen sich spezifische Prozesse und Strukturen, Potentiale und Probleme beobachten, die sowohl für die...

This paper uses an extended version of 'FiMod - A DSGE Model for Fiscal Policy Simulations' (Stähler and Thomas, 2011) with endogenous job destruction decisions by private firms to analyze the effects of several currently discussed labor market reforms on the Spanish economy. The main focus is...

National labour market institutions interact across national boundaries when product markets are global. Labour market policies can thus entail spill-overs, which suggests that there are benefits from international policy coordination. This paper studies the effects of wage subsidies in an...

Over the last two decades most European countries have been subject to a strong and persistent increase in their unemployment rates, leading these countries to attempt to combat obdurately high unemployment by exercising measures of Active Labor Market Policy (ALMP). These measures can be...

We evaluate an immigrant workplace introduction program aimed at helping individuals considered employable but at the same time expected to experience substantial difficulties in finding work. Using supported employment methods, the SIN program may influence outcomes through several channels. We...

Labor markets in Western countries are becoming more and more flexible, thereby meeting the needs of employers. Yet the new flexibility also offers opportunities to workers, while at the same time bears the risk of long-term exclusion. This paper deals with unequal chances on the contemporary...

To increase their transition from welfare to work, benefit recipients in the municipality of Rotterdam were exposed to various financial incentives, including both carrots to sticks. Once their benefit spell exceeded one year, welfare recipients were entitled to a reemployment bonus if they...