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Evaluation der Arbeitsmarktpolitik

Arbeitsmarktpolitik soll neben der Wirtschafts- und Strukturpolitik sowie der Arbeitszeit- und Lohnpolitik einen Beitrag zur Bewältigung der Arbeitslosigkeit leisten. Aber ist sie dabei auch erfolgreich und stehen die eingebrachten Mittel in einem angemessenen Verhältnis zu den erzielten Wirkungen? Die Evaluationsforschung geht der Frage nach den Beschäftigungseffekten und den sozialpolitischen Wirkungen auf individueller und gesamtwirtschaftlicher Ebene nach. Das Dossier bietet weiterführende Informationen zu Evaluationsmethoden und den Wirkungen von einzelnen Maßnahmen für verschiedene Zielgruppen.

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    Does Ethnicity Affect Allocation of Unemployment-Related Benefits to Job Center Clients? A Survey-Experimental Study of Representative Bureaucracy in Denmark (2024)

    Esmark, Anders ; Liengaard, Mikkel Bech;

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    Esmark, Anders & Mikkel Bech Liengaard (2024): Does Ethnicity Affect Allocation of Unemployment-Related Benefits to Job Center Clients? A Survey-Experimental Study of Representative Bureaucracy in Denmark. In: Journal of Social Policy, Jg. 53, S. 107-128. DOI:10.1017/S0047279422000034

    Abstract

    "The role of street-level bureaucracy in social policy has been taken up by two relatively distinct streams of research, based on Lipsky’s foundational work (2010). One group of literature has focused on the organizational working conditions, practices and coping mechanisms of street-level bureaucrats, their impact on the implementation of political programs and reforms, and the scope for discretion in the face of political pressures and institutional demands (Brodkin and Marston, 2013; Jessen and Tufte, 2014; Breit et al., 2016; Van Berkel et al., 2017; van Berkel, 2020). Starting from a focus on interaction with clients and the direct impact of discretionary decisions ‘on people’s lives’ (Lipsky, 2010, 8), a second group of studies has focused more on differences in allocation of benefits caused by perceived ‘deservingness’ and discrimination among street-level bureaucrats (Altreiter and Leibetseder, 2014; Terum et al., 2018; Jilke and Tummers, 2018)." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    What Works for the Unemployed? Evidence from Quasi-Random Caseworker Assignments (2023)

    Humlum, Anders; Munch, Jakob R.; Rasmussen, Mette;

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    Humlum, Anders, Jakob R. Munch & Mette Rasmussen (2023): What Works for the Unemployed? Evidence from Quasi-Random Caseworker Assignments. (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 16033), Bonn, 113 S.

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    "This paper examines if active labor market programs help unemployed job seekers find jobs using a novel random caseworker instrumental variable (IV) design. Leveraging administrative data from Denmark, our identification strategy exploits that (i) job seekers are quasi-randomly assigned to caseworkers, and (ii) caseworkers differ in their tendencies to assign similar job seekers to different programs. Using our IV strategy, we find assignment to classroom training increases employment rates by 25% two years after initial job loss. This finding contrasts with the conclusion reached by ordinary least squares (OLS), which suffers from a negative bias due to selection on unobservables. The employment effects are driven by job seekers who complete the programs (post-program effects) rather than job seekers who exit unemployment upon assignment (threat effects), and the programs help job seekers change occupations. We show that job seekers exposed to offshoring – who tend to experience larger and more persistent employment losses – also have higher employment gains from classroom training. By estimating marginal treatment effects, we conclude that total employment may be increased by targeting training toward job seekers exposed to offshoring." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Employer Participation in Active Labour Market Policies in the United Kingdom and Denmark: The Effect of Employer Associations as Social Networks and the Mediating Role of Collective Voice (2023)

    Valizade, Danat ; Ingold, Jo ; Stuart, Mark ;

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    Valizade, Danat, Jo Ingold & Mark Stuart (2023): Employer Participation in Active Labour Market Policies in the United Kingdom and Denmark: The Effect of Employer Associations as Social Networks and the Mediating Role of Collective Voice. In: Work, Employment and Society, Jg. 37, H. 4, S. 991-1012. DOI:10.1177/09500170211063094

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    "Active labour market policies (ALMPs) have evolved as pivotal social policy instruments designed to place the unemployed and other disadvantaged groups in sustainable employment. Yet, little is known about what drives employer participation in such initiatives. This article provides a nuanced account of the socio-economic aspects of the demand-side of ALMPs, by investigating employer embeddedness in wider social networks created by employer associations and employee collective voice as enabling mechanisms for employer participation in ALMPs. Drawing on an original survey of employers in the United Kingdom (UK) and Denmark, we found that the extent of employer embeddedness in such social networks is positively associated with employer participation in the UK but not in Denmark, where the effect was indirect and mediated through collective bargaining. The effects of employer network ties and employee collective voice affirm the importance of a more integrated analysis of the interactions between network ties and institutions in ALMP research." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The Direct and Indirect Effects of Online Job Search Advice (2022)

    Altmann, Steffen; Sebald, Alexander; Mahlstedt, Robert; Glenny, Anita Marie;

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    Altmann, Steffen, Anita Marie Glenny, Robert Mahlstedt & Alexander Sebald (2022): The Direct and Indirect Effects of Online Job Search Advice. (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 15830), Bonn, 44 S.

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    "We study how online job search advice affects the job search strategies and labor market outcomes of unemployed workers. In a large-scale field experiment, we provide job seekers with vacancy information and occupational recommendations through an online dashboard. A clustered randomization procedure with regionally varying treatment intensities allows us to account for treatment spillovers. Our results show that online advice is highly effective when the share of treated workers is relatively low: in regions where less than 50% of job seekers are exposed to the treatment, working hours and earnings of treated job seekers increase by 8.5–9.5% in the year after the intervention. At the same time, we find substantial negative spillovers on other treated job seekers for higher treatment intensities, resulting from increased competition between treated job seekers who apply for similar vacancies." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The Unequal Cost of Job Loss across Countries (2022)

    Bertheau, Antoine; Lombardi, Stefano; Saggio, Raffaele; Barceló, Cristina; Gulyas, Andreas ; Acabbi, Edoardo;

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    Bertheau, Antoine, Edoardo Acabbi, Cristina Barceló, Andreas Gulyas, Stefano Lombardi & Raffaele Saggio (2022): The Unequal Cost of Job Loss across Countries. (IZA discussion paper 15033), Bonn, 49 S.

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    "We document the consequences of losing a job across countries using a harmonized research design. Workers in Denmark and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal experience losses three times as high. French and Austrian workers face earnings losses somewhere in-between. Key to these differences is that Southern European workers are less likely to find employment following displacement. Loss of employer-specific wage premiums accounts for 40% to 95% of within-country wage declines. The use of active labor market policies predicts a significant portion of the cross-country heterogeneity in earnings losses." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Labour market protection across space and time: A revised typology and a taxonomy of countries' trajectories of change (2022)

    Ferragina, Emanuele ; Filetti, Federico Danilo;

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    Ferragina, Emanuele & Federico Danilo Filetti (2022): Labour market protection across space and time: A revised typology and a taxonomy of countries' trajectories of change. In: Journal of European Social Policy, Jg. 32, H. 2, S. 148-165. DOI:10.1177/09589287211056222

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    "We measure and interpret the evolution of labour market protection across 21 high-income countries over three decades, employing as conceptual foundations the ‘regime varieties’ and ‘trajectories of change’ developed by Esping-Andersen, Estevez-Abe, Hall and Soskice, and Thelen. We measure labour market protection considering four institutional dimensions – employment protection, unemployment protection, income maintenance and activation – and the evolution of the workforce composition. This measurement accounts for the joint evolution of labour market institutions, their complementarities and their relation to outcomes, and mitigate the unrealistic Average Production Worker assumption. We handle the multi-dimensional nature of labour market protection with Principal Component Analysis and capture the characteristics of countries’ trajectories of change with a composite score. We contribute to the literature in three ways. (1) We portray a revised typology that accounts for processes of change between 1990 and 2015, and that clusters regime varieties on the basis of coordination and solidarity levels, that is, Central/Northern European, Southern European, liberal. (2) We illustrate that, despite a persistent gap, a large majority of Coordinated Market Economies experiencing a decline in the level of labour market protection became more similar to Liberal Market Economies. (3) We develop a fivefold taxonomy of countries’ trajectories of change (liberalization, dualization, flexibility, de-dualization and higher protection), showing that these trajectories are not always path-dependent and consistent with regime varieties previously developed in the literature." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Danish Flexicurity: Rights and Duties (2022)

    Kreiner, Claus Thustrup ; Svarer, Michael;

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    Kreiner, Claus Thustrup & Michael Svarer (2022): Danish Flexicurity: Rights and Duties. In: The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Jg. 36, H. 4, S. 81-102. DOI:10.1257/jep.36.4.81

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    "Denmark is one of the richest countries in the world and achieves this in combination with low inequality, low unemployment, and high-income security. This performance is often attributed to the Danish labor market model characterized by what has become known as flexicurity. This essay describes and evaluates Danish flexicurity. The Danish experience shows that flexicurity in itself, that is, flexible hiring and firing rules for firms combined with high income security for workers, is insufficient for successful outcomes. The flexicurity policy also needs to include comprehensive active labor market programs (ALMPs) with compulsory participation for recipients of unemployment compensation. Denmark spends more on active labor market programs than any other OECD country. We review theory showing how ALMPs can mitigate adverse selection and moral hazard problems associated with high income security and review empirical evidence on the effectiveness of ALMPs from the ongoing Danish policy evaluation, which includes a systematic use of randomized experiments. We also discuss the aptness of flexicurity to meet challenges from globalization, automation, and immigration and the trade-offs that the United States (or other countries) would face in adopting a flexicurity policy." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Incentive effects of cash benefit among low-skilled young adults: Applying a regression discontinuity design (2020)

    Kleif, Helle Bendix ; Nielsen Arendt, Jacob ;

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    Kleif, Helle Bendix & Jacob Nielsen Arendt (2020): Incentive effects of cash benefit among low-skilled young adults: Applying a regression discontinuity design. In: PLoS ONE, Jg. 15, H. 11. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0241279

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    "In 2014, the Danish Government implemented an active labour market reform directed at unemployed young adults under 30 years of age with low educational qualifications. The reform replaced the (unemployment) cash benefits with a lower education benefit for many of the unemployed aged under 30 and obliged the low-skilled in this group to enrol in a regular general or vocational (VET) education program. This paper exploits the sharp discontinuity that occurs at age 30 to estimate the joint effect of higher benefits and the cessation of educational obligations on the share receiving cash benefits and the share enrolled in education. We estimate the effects by applying a regression discontinuity design. We report results for the group of low educated young adults and for subgroups facing different economic incentives. The results establish that reaching age 30 creates an incentive to apply for cash benefits, and we find strong evidence that a significant increase in the share of cash benefit recipients relates to a corresponding reduction in the share of young adults enrolled in education. When including subgroups the size of the effect increases, and the results demonstrate that the effects are strongest among previous education benefit recipients. This indicates that the results are mainly driven mainly by individuals reverting to cash benefits." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Levelling the playing field? Active labour market policies, educational attainment and unemployment (2019)

    Benda, Luc; Koster, Ferry; van der Veen, Romke;

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    Benda, Luc, Ferry Koster & Romke van der Veen (2019): Levelling the playing field? Active labour market policies, educational attainment and unemployment. In: The International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Jg. 39, H. 3/4, S. 276-295. DOI:10.1108/IJSSP-08-2018-0138

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    "The purpose of this paper is to investigate how active labour market policy (ALMP) training programmes and hiring subsidies increase or decrease differences in the unemployment risk between lesser and higher educated people during an economic downturn. A focus is put on potential job competition dynamics and cumulative (dis)advantages of the lesser and higher educated" (Author's abstract, © Emerald Group) ((en))

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    Active labor market policies: Lessons from other countries for the United States (2019)

    Bown, Chad P.; Freund, Caroline;

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    Bown, Chad P. & Caroline Freund (2019): Active labor market policies. Lessons from other countries for the United States. (Working paper / Peterson Institute for International Economics 2019-02), Washington, DC, 12 S.

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    "US labor force participation has been weak in recent decades, especially during the recovery of the financial crisis of 2007 - 09. This paper examines several programs that governments in other advanced industrial countries have established to help jobless workers continue to seek employment, not drop out of the labor force, and ultimately find jobs. These programs more actively support out-of-work citizens by facilitating matches between workers and firms, helping workers in their job searches, and sometimes creating jobs when none are available in the private sector. The evidence presented in this paper concludes that job placement services, training, wage subsidies, and other labor adjustment policies can be used to successfully help workers find employment and remain tied to the labor market. By contrast, direct job creation through public works projects and other government programs are less effective in helping workers over the long run." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Employer participation in active labour market policy: from reactive gatekeepers to proactive strategic partners (2019)

    Orton, Michael; Atfield, Gaby; Barnes, Sally-Anne; Green, Anne ;

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    Orton, Michael, Anne Green, Gaby Atfield & Sally-Anne Barnes (2019): Employer participation in active labour market policy. From reactive gatekeepers to proactive strategic partners. In: Journal of social policy, Jg. 48, H. 3, S. 511-528. DOI:10.1017/S0047279418000600

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    "Active labour market policy (ALMP) is a well-established strategy but one aspect is greatly neglected - employer participation - about which there is a lack of systematic evidence. The question of why and how employers participate in ALMP, and whether there may be some shift from employers solely being passive recipients of job-ready candidates to having a more proactive and strategic role, is addressed by drawing on new research into Talent Match, a contemporary UK employability programme which places particular emphasis on employer involvement. The research findings point to a conceptual distinction between employers' roles as being reactive gatekeepers to jobs and/or being proactive strategic partners, with both evident. It is argued that the Talent Match programme demonstrates potential to benefit employers, jobseekers and programme providers, with devolution of policy to the local level a possible way forward. The conclusion, however, is that the barrier to wider replication is not necessarily a problem of practice but of centralised control of policy and, in particular, commitment to a supply-side approach. Empirical, conceptual and policy contributions are made to this under-researched topic." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Flexicurity and the dynamics of the welfare state adjustments (2018)

    Bubak, Oldrich;

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    Bubak, Oldrich (2018): Flexicurity and the dynamics of the welfare state adjustments. In: Transfer, Jg. 24, H. 4, S. 387-404. DOI:10.1177/1024258918781732

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    "Die Verwerfungen der jüngsten globalen Finanzkrise verstärkten mehrere der schon vorhandenen industriellen und ökonomischen Herausforderungen und schoben eine Reihe von oftmals widersprüchlichen Lösungsansätzen in den Vordergrund. In diesem Artikel konzentrieren wir uns auf zwei unterschiedliche Sichtweisen, wie ökonomische Wettbewerbsfähigkeit (wieder) hergestellt und Wachstum ermöglicht werden kann: Flexicurity und Austeritätspolitik. Über die Zukunft dieser widersprüchlichen 'Rezepte' kann im Vergleich von unterschiedlichen politischen Ökonomien viel gelernt werden, insbesondere in Anbetracht der Bedeutung der Sozialpartner bei der Entwicklung von Flexicurity und ihrer unterschiedlichen Fähigkeit, die Ergebnisse von Wohlfahrtsstaaten breiter zu beeinflussen. Es stellen sich zwei Fragen. Was können wir über die Dynamik der permanenten Anpassungen des Wohlfahrtsstaates lernen, wenn wir auf die Rolle und Kapazität der Sozialpartner achten? Wie kann sinnvolle Arbeitsmarktpolitik in diesem paradoxen Umfeld aussehen? Zur Beantwortung dieser Fragen untersuchen wir das Vereinigte Königreich - mit seiner eher bescheidenen Sozial- und Beschäftigungssicherheit - und Dänemark, das Musterbeispiel für Flexicurity. Die Unterschiede in den Philosophien, bei der Entwicklung ihrer Institutionen und den organisationalen Interaktionen dieser beiden Staaten erklären nicht nur ihre jeweiligen Entscheidungen nach dem Ausbruch der Krise, sondern auch ihre Erwartungen an sozial orientierte Arbeitsmarktpolitik." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    Early activation and employment promotion (2018)

    Csillag, Márton ; Fertig, Michael; Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna;

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    Csillag, Márton & Anna Adamecz-Völgyi (2018): Early activation and employment promotion. Brüssel, 71 S. DOI:10.2767/085505

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    In sechs länderbezogenen Fallstudien untersucht der Beitrag mit der Szenario-Methode die Effizienz und Effektivität einer frühen Intervention bei (drohenden) Massenentlassungen hinsichtlich der Vermeidung von Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit. Frühzeitig bedeutet, noch vor der Entlassung Barrieren zu identifizieren, die eine Reintegration im Wege stehen, eine passgenaue Beratung und Weiterbildungsmöglichkeiten anzubieten. Im Ergebnis zeigen sich positive Effekte bei einer personalisierten Arbeitsberatung, die zudem ohne großen finanziellen Aufwand geleistet werden kann. Weitere Vorzüge der frühen Intervention gegenüber späteren arbeitsmarktpolitischen Maßnahmen konnten nicht generell nachgewiesen werden, jedoch in einzelnen Ländern für bestimmte Zielgruppen. (IAB)

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    Bringing the client back in: A comparison between political rationality and the experiences of the unemployed (2018)

    Danneris, Sophie ; Herup Nielsen, Mathias;

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    Danneris, Sophie & Mathias Herup Nielsen (2018): Bringing the client back in: A comparison between political rationality and the experiences of the unemployed. In: Social policy and administration, Jg. 52, H. 7, S. 1441-1454. DOI:10.1111/spol.12386

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    "Categorizing the job readiness of unemployed clients is a task of the utmost importance for active labor market policies. Scholarly attention on the topic has mostly focused either on questions of political legitimacy or on how categories are practically negotiated in meetings between the welfare system and the client. This article proposes a comparative methodology, in which the political rationality of job readiness is contrasted with findings from a qualitative longitudinal study into the lived experience of recent welfare reforms. A group of 25 vulnerable Danish unemployed welfare claimants were interviewed repeatedly from 2013 to 2015 in the qualitative longitudinal study, and their accounts were compared to the political rationality on job readiness. Our analysis presents four striking areas of discrepancy between political rationality, on the one hand, and the logic of job readiness found in the vast amount of qualitative material, on the other hand. It is concluded that the specific comparative perspective is fruitful because: (i) it critically addresses the gap between the experiences of some unemployed people and the political rationality; and (ii) it adds the perspective of the targeted individuals themselves to the analysis of political categorization, thereby avoiding the well-known risk of reducing welfare clients to mere manipulable objects." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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    Heterogeneous impacts on earnings from an early effort in labor market programs (2016)

    Sørensen, Kenneth Lykke;

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    Sørensen, Kenneth Lykke (2016): Heterogeneous impacts on earnings from an early effort in labor market programs. In: Labour economics, Jg. 41, H. August, S. 266-279. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2016.05.005

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    "We study whether a labor market program, previously shown to lower unemployment duration, affects job quality. The empirical analysis is based on a randomized controlled trial, conducted in two different counties. We find no effects on women but positive effects for men. In one county, the program increased men's earnings in the short term by 9%, possibly by taxing leisure. In the second county, earnings also increased in the longer run, by about 9%, possibly because of a removal of labor market frictions. The positive effects of the program are heterogeneous, with taxing of leisure time primarily affecting low income earners while removing labor market frictions affecting high income earners." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Back to work: Denmark: improving the re-employment prospects of displaced workers (2016)

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    OECD (2016): Back to work: Denmark. Improving the re-employment prospects of displaced workers. (Back to work), Paris, 152 S. DOI:10.1787/9789264267503-en

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    "Job displacement (involuntary job loss due to firm closure or downsizing) affects many workers over the course of their working lives. Displaced workers may face long periods of unemployment and, even when they find new jobs, tend to be paid less than in the jobs they held prior to displacement. Helping displaced workers get back into good jobs quickly should be a key goal of labour market policy. This report is the sixth in a series of reports looking at how this challenge is being tackled in a number of OECD countries. It shows that Denmark has effective policies in place to quickly assist people who are losing their jobs, in terms of both providing good re-employment support and securing adequate income in periods of unemployment. Despite a positive institutional framework, a sound collaboration between social partners and a favourable policy set-up, there is room to improve policies targeted to displaced workers as not every worker in Denmark can benefit from the same amount of support. In particular, workers affected by collective dismissals in larger firms receive faster and better support than those in small firms or involved in small or individual dismissals. Blue-collar workers are also treated less favourably than white-collar workers. More generally, low-skilled and older displaced workers struggle most to re-enter the labour market." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The developing trajectory of the marketization of public employment services in Denmark: a new way forward or the end of marketization? (2015)

    Breidahl, Karen N.; Larsen, Flemming ;

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    Breidahl, Karen N. & Flemming Larsen (2015): The developing trajectory of the marketization of public employment services in Denmark. A new way forward or the end of marketization? In: European policy analysis, Jg. 1, H. 1, S. 92-107. DOI:10.18278/epa.1.1.7

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    "This article addresses the market for employment services. It adopts a dynamic perspective on welfare markets and demonstrates how the institutional design of quasi-markets in the Danish Public Employment service has been promoted, altered, and re-regulated over a period of 10 years. It was in 2002 when quasi-markets have been created by using the instrument of contracting-out employment services to private providers. Seen from the perspective of policymakers at the national level, contracting-out is attractive as it has a buffering function and allows adapting the amount of the public financed employment services comparatively easy to changing needs resulting from changing labor market conditions. However, contracting-out makes accountability to public goods more difficult as the chain of accountability is stretched or may even be broken. Against the background of accountability scandals, which have revealed the poor quality of privately provided services, the market design was re-modelled again by replacing standardized national tendering with a decentralized, partnership-based and dialogue-oriented approach, where services are developed in joint efforts between purchaser and provider. All in all, the development of quasi-markets in the Danish Public Employment system can be described as a partial reversal from marketization. Paradoxically, elements of network governance, which were abolished initially, have been introduced again." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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    De-professionalization through managerialization in labour market policy: lessons from the Danish experience (2015)

    Jørgensen, Henning; Baadsgaard, Kelvin; Nørup, Iben ;

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    Jørgensen, Henning, Kelvin Baadsgaard & Iben Nørup (2015): De-professionalization through managerialization in labour market policy. Lessons from the Danish experience. In: T. Klenk & E. Pavolini (Hrsg.) (2015): Restructuring welfare governance : marketization, managerialism and welfare state professionalism, S. 163-182.

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    "The labour market policy in Denmark has become short-term oriented, more standardized and more focused an economic incentives. 'Work first' elements in a 'flexicurity' system were actually something new in the Danish context (Jorgensen 2009/2010). This had repercussions as to the situation and practice of frontline workers, and primarily social workers. It is also a case of policy without politics to be analyzed. Consequences for proactitioners within the jobcentres of the managerial changes from 2003 to 2014 will be examined here, including content of practice, skills requirements and knowledge production. These consequences also pose the question of professionalization or de-professionalization? Hence we discuss the consequences of the operational reforms when it comes to the practice and focus in the employment efforts given to especially weaker unemployed persons and persons on sick allowance. We combine historical and sociological institutionalism with concepts and notions stemming from research on professions (Abbott 1998; Brodkin and Marston 2013; Evetts 2007, 2009, 2011; Freidson 1994; Larson 1977; Macdonald 1999; Noordegraaf 2007) and on street-level bureaucracy (Brodkin and Marston 2013; Lipsky 1980; Maynard-Moody and Musheno 2012). The role of street-level bureaucracy needs supplementing perspectives (Evans 2011) as shown here in the analysis of the Danish employment system." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Are public or private providers of employment services more effective?: evidence from a randomized experiment (2015)

    Rehwald, Kai; Rosholm, Michael ; Svarer, Michael;

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    Rehwald, Kai, Michael Rosholm & Michael Svarer (2015): Are public or private providers of employment services more effective? Evidence from a randomized experiment. (IZA discussion paper 9365), Bonn, 41 S.

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    "This paper compares the effectiveness of public and private providers of employment services. Reporting from a randomized field experiment conducted in Denmark we assess empirically the case for contracting out employment services for a well-defined group of highly educated job-seekers (unemployed holding a university degree). Our findings suggest, first, that private providers deliver more intense, employment-oriented, and earlier services. Second, public and private provision of employment services are equally effective regarding subsequent labour market outcomes. And third, the two competing service delivery systems appear to be equally costly from a public spending perspective." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Active labor market programs and reservation wages: its a hazard (2015)

    Sørensen, Kenneth Lykke;

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    Sørensen, Kenneth Lykke (2015): Active labor market programs and reservation wages. Its a hazard. (University Aarhus. Economics working paper 2015-27), Aarhus, 10 S.

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    "Using a randomized controlled trial, this paper shows that positive earnings effects of labor market programs might be driven by an employment and/or a wage effect. The findings of this paper suggest that treated individuals in a high-intense scheme are more prone to have lowered short- term reservation wages compared to non-treated and thus accepts lower wages. In a less intense scheme with use of private providers, treated individuals are more likely to have gained formal human capital accumulation, and thereby raised reservation wages, which again might give rise to long-lasting effects." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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