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Workfare: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen
Koch, Susanne; Stephan, Gesine; Walwei, Ulrich - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2005
transfer payments in general to a 'service in return' from the recipient. This concept operates under the name of workfare …. This paper examines the possibilities and limits of workfare in dealing with labour market problems. This includes the … the fiscal consequences. The paper shows that one fundamental premise for the effectiveness of a wide-ranging workfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592336
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Workfare: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen
Koch, Susanne; Stephan, Gesine; Walwei, Ulrich - 2005
transfer payments in general to a 'service in return' from the recipient. This concept operates under the name of workfare …. This paper examines the possibilities and limits of workfare in dealing with labour market problems. This includes the … the fiscal consequences. The paper shows that one fundamental premise for the effectiveness of a wide-ranging workfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266814
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Workfare: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen
Koch, Susanne; Stephan, Gesine; Walwei, Ulrich - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2005
transfer payments in general to a 'service in return' from the recipient. This concept operates under the name of workfare …. This paper examines the possibilities and limits of workfare in dealing with labour market problems. This includes the … the fiscal consequences. The paper shows that one fundamental premise for the effectiveness of a wide-ranging workfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005132548
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The Relative Effectiveness of Selected Active Labour Market Programmes and the Common Support Problem
Stephan, Gesine; Pahnke, André - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
For Germany, we analyse the (relative) effects of participation in several active labour market programmes on the employment prospects of participants. First, our results show that different matching algorithms result in different severe problems of common support. Second, we obtain favourable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822500
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The Effects of Active Labor Market Programs in Germany: An Investigation Using Different Definitions of Non-Treatment
Stephan, Gesine - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 228 (2008) 5+6, pp. 586-611
This paper estimates the effects of several German labor market programs – starting in March 2003 – on the employment outcomes of participants using propensity score matching. The main objective is to analyze how estimated average treatment effects vary with the choice of the classification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596449
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The effectiveness of targeted wage subsidies for hard-to-place workers
Jaenichen, Ursula; Stephan, Gesine - 2007
Targeted wage subsidies paid to employers are an important element of active labour market policies in Germany. This paper uses propensity score matching to investigate their effect on subsidised hard-to-place workers. In a first scenario, we estimate the average treatment effect of a subsidy on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267182
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The effects of active labor market programs in Germany: An investigation using different definitions of non-treatment
Stephan, Gesine - 2008
Der Beitrag schätzt die Wirkung verschiedener arbeitsmarktpolitischer Maßnahmen auf die Beschäftigungschancen von Geförderten, die im März 2003 eine solche Maßnahme aufnahmen. Dies geschieht mit Hilfe statistischer Matching-Methoden. Der Fokus des Beitrags liegt auf dem Vergleich der...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267200
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Wage subsidies for needy job-seekers and their effect on individual labour market outcomes after the German reforms
Bernhard, Sarah; Gartner, Hermann; Stephan, Gesine - 2008
Seit dem Jahr 2005 erhalten erwerbsfähige Hilfebedürftige, die keinen Anspruch auf das beitragsfinanzierte Arbeitslosengeld I haben, das steuerfinanzierte Arbeitslosengeld II. Verschiedene Maßnahmen aktiver Arbeitsmarktpolitik sollen den Übergang der erwerbsfähigen Hilfebedürftigen in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267212
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Wage subsidies for needy job-seekers and their effect on individual labour market outcomes after the German reforms
Bernhard, Sarah; Gartner, Hermann; Stephan, Gesine - 2008
Our paper estimates the average effect of wage subsidies - paid to employers for a limited period of time - on the labour market prospects of needy job-seekers without access to insurance-paid 'unemployment benefit I'. The results show that wage subsidies had large and significant favourable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268957
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The relative effectiveness of selected active labour market programmes and the common support problem
Stephan, Gesine; Pahnke, André - 2008
For Germany, we analyse the (relative) effects of participation in several active labour market programmes on the employment prospects of participants. First, our results show that different matching algorithms result in different severe problems of common support. Second, we obtain favourable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269371