Crime rates in Papua New Guinea’s capital city of Port Moresby are among the highest in the world. Few youth work, and good jobs are scarce. In 2013, the National Capital District Commission partnered with the World Bank to implement the Urban Youth Employment Project. The project offers...

This paper analyses the effectiveness of public works programmes (PWPs) in creating employment, reducing poverty and reinforcing the existing social protection system in Namibia. Using data and information from a survey conducted in northern Namibia, it is established that while public works...

Ein-Euro-Jobs verfolgen vielfältige Zielsetzungen. Zum einen sollen sie arbeitsmarktfernen Leistungsbeziehern helfen, mittelfristig wieder auf dem ersten Arbeitsmarkt zu arbeiten. Zum anderen können sie eingesetzt werden, um die Arbeitsbereitschaft von ALG-II-Beziehern zu überprüfen. Der...

Das IAB äußert sich in dieser Stellungnahme zum Antrag der Fraktion der SPD und der Fraktion Bündnis 90/Die Grünen im Landtag Nordrhein-Westfalen: "Förderung eines dauerhaften sozialen Arbeitsmarktes - Arbeit statt Arbeitslosigkeit finanzieren" (Drucksache 16/8655) und dem Antrag der...

This paper shows analytically and numerically that there are two ways of generating an observationally equivalent comovement between matches, unemployment, and vacancies in dynamic labor market models: either by assuming a standard Cobb-Douglas contact function or by combining a degenerate...

"This compelling book provides concrete examples and practical guidelines for addressing the most serious economic challenge facing the United States and every community in the nation: growing good jobs and enabling people to function effectively in these occupations. Lays out a methodology that...

"In the depths of a depression in 1894, a highly successful Gilded Age businessman named Jacob Coxey led a group of jobless men on a march from his hometown of Massillon, Ohio, to the steps of the nation's Capitol. Though a financial panic and the resulting widespread business failures caused...

Die Arbeitsmarktforschung und Erkenntnisse aus dem operativen Geschäft haben gezeigt, dass es relevante Personengruppen im Bereich des Zweiten Buches Sozialgesetzbuch (SGB II) gibt, deren Chancen auf Integration in ungeförderte Beschäftgung marginal sind. Da diese Personen, vom Gesetzgeber...

This paper analyses the employment adjustment of state- and privately-owned companies before and during the global crisis. Using Hungarian data, it finds that the net job creation rate is similar across the two ownership types before the crisis, but during the crisis state-owned companies have a...

This study was prepared by Beate Schirwitz while she was working at the Ifo Institute’s Dresden Branch. It was completed in February 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Faculty of Law, Management, and Economics at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in July 2012. It focuses on a...

Public works programs, aimed at building a strong social safety net through redistribution of wealth and generation of meaningful employment, are becoming increasingly popular in developing countries. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), enacted in August 2005, is one such...

Mit dem Inkrafttreten des Sozialgesetzbuch II (SGB II) im Januar 2005 veränderten sich durch die Einführung der SGB-II-Arbeitsgelegenheiten bzw. Zusatzjobs (so genannte 'Ein-Euro-Jobs') die Instrumente der öffentlich geförderten Beschäftigung. Diese in § 16 (3) (jetzt § 16d) des SGB II...