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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- Methoden und Datensatzbeschreibungen
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Typologie der Maßnahmen
- Institutionen der Arbeitsförderung
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Vermittlung und Beratung
- Prozessoptimierung
- Profiling und Case Management, Eingliederungsvereinbarung
- Unterstützung bei der Arbeitsuche
- Vermittlung durch Dritte
- Vermittlung von Beziehern von Bürgergeld, Sozialhilfe oder Arbeitslosengeld II
- Zusammenarbeit von Arbeits- und Sozialverwaltung
- Job-Center
- Personal-Service-Agentur
- Zeitarbeit
- (gemeinnützige) Arbeitnehmerüberlassung
- Vermittlungsgutscheine
- Berufsberatung
- Aus- und Weiterbildung
- Subventionierung von Beschäftigung
- Öffentlich geförderte Beschäftigung
- Transfer- und Mobilitätsmaßnahmen
- berufliche Rehabilitation
- Lohnersatzleistungen / Einkommensunterstützung
- Altersteilzeit und Vorruhestand
- Sonstiges
- Typologie der Arbeitslosen
- besondere Personengruppen
- Geschlecht
- Geografischer Bezug
- Alter
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Performative agency among street-level bureaucrats: its implications for citizen encounters with the welfare state (2025)
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Kovács, Borbála, Jeremy Morris & Anne Sophie Grauslund (2025): Performative agency among street-level bureaucrats: its implications for citizen encounters with the welfare state. In: The international journal of sociology and social policy, Jg. 45, H. 5/6, S. 529-545. DOI:10.1108/ijssp-10-2024-0520
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"Purpose: The purpose of this study is to use ethnographic immersion in low-discretion bureaucratic contexts to explore how performative communication affects welfare bureaucracy outcomes in two European contexts. Design/methodology/approach Comparative ethnographic study of face-to-face welfare bureaucratic encounters between frontline workers and new parents claiming and/or receiving universal family entitlements in Denmark and Romania, using a most-different comparative design. Findings Irrespective of discretion, “successful” bureaucratic interactions are judged based on demeanour (performative agency). This judgement carries over to general dispositions towards the welfare state. Originality/value A performative taxonomy of welfare bureaucrats involved in the delivery of universal and contributory family services and benefits helps explain perceived outcomes of face-to-face frontline welfare encounters. The paper also argues for moving beyond logocentrism in ethnographic studies of street-level welfare work towards a more encompassing understanding of language." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Emerald Group) ((en))
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Access Through Peer Support: Implications of an Innovative Counselling Approach in German Jobcentres (2025)
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Lammers, Klara (2025): Access Through Peer Support: Implications of an Innovative Counselling Approach in German Jobcentres. In: Social Inclusion, Jg. 13. DOI:10.17645/si.10366
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"This research approaches the theoretical discourse on accessibility from an empirical perspective using a qualitative study in a specific field of social services. In Germany, jobcenters are institutions responsible for promoting employment, providing benefits, and offering counselling to unemployed people. Due to their hierarchical structures, standardized processes, and orientation towards the paradigms of an activating labor market policy, jobcenters can be described as organizations that are difficult to access for clients, especially for people with mental disorders. Based on a qualitative analysis, this article examines an innovative model project that implements a peer support approach in this context. Peer support volunteers have experienced mental disorders themselves and support users on this basis. The analysis comprises 38 individual interviews and seven group discussions with peer support volunteers and users, addressing the research question of how the introduction of peer support has changed the perception of accessibility within the jobcenter institution. The empirical results show that changes are taking place both at a structural level and concerning the relationships and organization of support. However, certain barriers within the organization remain and restrict accessibility. With reference to Clarke’s access theory, the majority of the identified changes can be understood as conservative active-outreach strategies aligned with the existing system and its normative orientations. Additionally, the involvement of the previously little-heard and potentially stigmatised perspective of people who have experienced mental disorders themselves reveals a transformative potential at certain points." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Welche Betriebe nehmen die Weiterbildungsförderung der BA in Anspruch? (2025)
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Leber, Ute (2025): Welche Betriebe nehmen die Weiterbildungsförderung der BA in Anspruch? In: Denk-doch-Mal.de H. 1, 2025-01-15.
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"Der beruflichen Weiterbildung kommt in der modernen Arbeitswelt eine hohe Bedeutung zu. Dies gilt für Beschäftigte, für die Weiterbildung ein wichtiges Mittel zur Sicherung ihrer Arbeitsmarktchancen ist, ebenso wie für Betriebe, die auf diesem Wege ihren Qualifikationsbedarf decken und ihre Wettbewerbsfähigkeit erhöhen können. Wie vorliegende Studien zeigen, ist die Weiterbildungsbeteiligung jedoch ungleich verteilt. So nehmen insbesondere Geringqualifizierte, aber auch Ältere sowie Beschäftigte in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen nur vergleichsweise wenig an Weiterbildung teil (vgl. zum Beispiel Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung 2024). Fragt man nach den Gründen für die unterdurchschnittliche Weiterbildungsbeteiligung mancher Personengruppen, so deuten empirische Untersuchungen auf die Bedeutung einer Vielzahl an Faktoren hin. Neben mangelnden Informationen über die Bedeutung von Weiterbildung und Weiterbildungsangebote spielen dabei auch finanzielle und zeitliche Restriktionen eine Rolle. Mit der Weiterbildungsförderung für Beschäftigte der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) steht ein Instrument zur Verfügung, das Betriebe beziehungsweise Beschäftigte bei einer Weiterbildungsteilnahme finanziell unterstützt. Zentrale Ansprechpartner für die Weiterbildungsförderung sind dabei die Betriebe; die Agenturen für Arbeit erstatten diesen die Kosten für Lehrgänge und leisten Zuschüsse zum Arbeitsentgelt der Beschäftigten. War die Weiterbildungsförderung bei ihrer Einführung im Jahr 2006 noch auf bestimmte Beschäftigtengruppen beziehungsweise Betriebe beschränkt, steht sie mittlerweile allen offen. Nach einem Ausbau der Fördermöglichkeiten in den Jahren 2019 und 2020 wurde die Weiterbildungsförderung zuletzt im Rahmen des Aus- und Weiterbildungsgesetzes im Jahr 2024 reformiert mit dem Ziel, die Transparenz der Förderung zu erhöhen und den Zugang zu Weiterbildungsangeboten zu erleichtern." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)
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Closing the Mismatch: Encouraging Jobseekers to Reskill for Shortage Occupations (2025)
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Leduc, Elisabeth & Ilan Tojerow (2025): Closing the Mismatch: Encouraging Jobseekers to Reskill for Shortage Occupations. (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 17731), Bonn, 56 S.
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"We partner with a Public Employment Service to examine whether jobseekers can be encouraged to reskill for shortage occupations. In a large-scale field experiment involving 100,000 recently unemployed individuals, we provide information on shortage occupations and related training opportunities. The intervention increased participation in transversal training courses by 6%, but did not boost enrolment in occupational training for shortage jobs. Jobseekers also shifted their search towards high-demand occupations, yet employment remained unchanged. These findings suggest that while low-cost informational interventions can influence job search and training behaviour, different approaches are likely needed to drive substantial reskilling among jobseekers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Die prädiktive Rolle von Selbstwirksamkeitserwartung für die Wiedereingliederung nach stationärer psychosomatischer Rehabilitation bei Erwerbstätigen mit psychischen Störungen (2025)
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Lidolt, Gianni, Johannes Beller, Marieke Hansmann, Axel Kobelt-Pönicke & Christoph Kröger (2025): Die prädiktive Rolle von Selbstwirksamkeitserwartung für die Wiedereingliederung nach stationärer psychosomatischer Rehabilitation bei Erwerbstätigen mit psychischen Störungen. In: Die Rehabilitation, Jg. 64, H. 5, S. 291-297. DOI:10.1055/a-2654-4661
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"Die Wiedereingliederung in das Arbeitsleben ist eines der wichtigsten Ziele der psychosomatischen Rehabilitation. Internationale Studien zeigten, dass eine hohe Selbstwirksamkeitserwartung die Zeit bis zur Rückkehr zur Arbeit positiv beeinflussen kann. In dieser Studie wurde der Einfluss von Selbstwirksamkeitserwartung auf die Rückkehr zur Arbeit nach einer stationären psychosomatischen Rehabilitationseinrichtung für Erwerbstätige mit psychischen Störungen untersucht. In einer retrospektiven Längsschnittstudie wurden die Teilnehmenden (N=180) einer Rehabilitation zu ihrer arbeitsplatzbezogenen Selbstwirksamkeitserwartung, zur Depressivität, zur Dauer der Beschäftigung vor der Rehabilitation und zu anderen demografischen Variablen befragt. Die Versicherungsdaten wurden zur Berechnung der Zeit bis zur Rückkehr zur Arbeit nach 12 Monaten herangezogen. Mit Hilfe von Cox-Regressionsanalysen wurden relevante Prädiktoren ermittelt. Weiterführend wurden korrelative Zusammenhänge und Prä-Post-Analysen hinsichtlich der Selbstwirksamkeit und Depressivität durchgeführt. Eine höhere arbeitsplatzbezogenen Selbstwirksamkeitserwartung und eine längere Beschäftigungsdauer vor der Rehabilitation erhöhten die Chance auf eine schnellere Rückkehr zur Arbeit. Die Behandlung zeigte Veränderungen in der Depressivität (d=0,97) und der arbeitsplatzbezogenen Selbstwirksamkeitserwartung (d=|0,36|). Im Verlauf der psychosomatischen Rehabilitation könnte die arbeitsplatzbezogene Selbstwirksamkeitserwartung für den Prozess der Wiedereingliederung bei Beschäftigten mit psychischen Störungen ein relevanter Faktor sein." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Iterations of work inclusion beyond the standard service: Personalized welfare services in the era of activation and innovation (2025)
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Lundberg, Kjetil G., Suzan M. Skjold, Arnhild Melve & Astrid O. Sundsbø (2025): Iterations of work inclusion beyond the standard service. Personalized welfare services in the era of activation and innovation. In: Journal of Comparative Social Work, Jg. 19, H. 2, S. 63-88. DOI:10.31265/jcsw.v19i2.663
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"Employment services are repeatedly criticised for building barriers to service user participation and decent employment due to combinations of conditionality, bureaucratic logics, high caseloads and scarce resources. However, a range of newer service approaches recognise some of these shortcomings, and aim for personalization, service coordination, and/or increased connection to employers. In this article, we compare four programmes and their key worker roles, implemented in Norwegian postreform welfare and employment services (NAV) in the 2010s, as iterations of work inclusion beyond the standard follow-up service. These approaches are sensitive to gaps in the current service system, and they invest in the relationship between the professional worker and the service user, working both within and beyond social work approaches. Situated in the broader research literature on activation, personalisation and street-level organizations, we provide an analysis of how these approaches go beyond “business as usual” through strengthened key worker roles. We argue that the relational work approach adopted in these measures has the potential to foster the participation of service users, and to smoothen and sometimes tone down the conditional aspects of services, but that different organisational demands and accountability mechanisms produce a different space of action for key workers and users to shape the path towards labour and social inclusion." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Social Return on Investment Analysis: A case study of a job and skills training program administered by the French Labor Ministry (2025)
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Murtada, Dima & Claire Hutchinson (2025): Social Return on Investment Analysis: A case study of a job and skills training program administered by the French Labor Ministry. In: Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, Jg. 63, H. 2, S. 207-224. DOI:10.1177/10522263251357443
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"Background: The program “Réalise Tes Rêves” (Make your dreams come true; RtR) was a program of action research aimed at trialing new approaches to address the job seeking needs of people not in employment, education or training (NEETs), and unemployed women in disadvantaged neighborhoods. Objective: This study examines the use of social return on investment (SROI), a social valuation methodology, to examine and capture the broad socio-economic value of the employment program RtR. Methods: Qualitative data was collected from 54 program participants and 21 program staff. The analysis was also informed by program data such as program components engaged in by participants, retention and exit outcomes. Results: Positive outcomes were identified for the program participants, program staff, and the community. The most important direct outcomes were the increase in personal assets, enhanced career prospects, and health improvements. The SROI ratio was €16.62 for every €1 invested. Conclusions: This study illustrates the program's tangible and intangible program outcomes by applying SROI methodology and demonstrates the social impact of supporting employment and self-employment for disadvantaged job seekers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Knockin’ on Employment’s Door: The Power of Caseworker Beliefs on Job and Health Outcomes for the Long-Term Unemployed (2025)
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Nielsen, Søren Albeck & Michael Rosholm (2025): Knockin’ on Employment’s Door: The Power of Caseworker Beliefs on Job and Health Outcomes for the Long-Term Unemployed. (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 17970), Bonn, 52 S.
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"This study examines the impact of caseworker beliefs on employment and health outcomes among long-term unemployed social assistance recipients in Denmark. Exploiting as-if random caseworker assignment, an instrumental variables approach, and a novel measure of “Caseworker Job Orientation”, we estimate the effects of caseworkers’ job beliefs regarding their clients. Results indicate that clients assigned to caseworkers with stronger innate job beliefs experience substantial improvements in employment rates, earnings, and educational enrollment. Additionally, positive effects on health are observed, particularly among clients with pre-existing health conditions. These findings underscore the role of caseworker attitudes in shaping client trajectories, offering policy insights into enhancing labor market re-entry strategies." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Employment and Consumption Responses to the Withdrawal of Unemployment Benefits (2025)
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Parolin, Zachary & Clemente Pignatti (2025): Employment and Consumption Responses to the Withdrawal of Unemployment Benefits. In: ILR review, Jg. 78, H. 3, S. 543-570. DOI:10.1177/00197939251322173
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"The authors study the responses to the withdrawal of two generous unemployment benefit (UB) schemes introduced in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, exploiting variations across states in the timing of the policy change. Using data from the Current Population Survey, they find that the expiration of UBs increased unemployment-to-employment transitions. However, approximately half of this effect was driven by job recalls. Evidence also shows that unemployed individuals transitioned into lower quality jobs, compared to their previous occupations, and that young job seekers not eligible for UBs were displaced by increased job-search competition. Using both survey and transaction data, the authors also provide complementary evidence on the consumption effects of the policy change. They document a small reduction in consumption after the withdrawal of pandemic UBs for some non-necessary spending categories." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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"I feel good here": A qualitative study on subsidised employment in a Swedish municipal labour market programme (2025)
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Parsland, Ellen & Gabriella Scaramuzzino (2025): "I feel good here". A qualitative study on subsidised employment in a Swedish municipal labour market programme. In: Journal of Comparative Social Work, Jg. 19, H. 2, S. 38-62. DOI:10.31265/jcsw.v19i2.657
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"The aim of this article is to understand how a group of subsidized employees constructed a collective identity and symbolic community, and the role the municipal labor market programme played in that process. Further, it explores whether and how a shared collective identity and symbolic community may provide an explanation for how the ‘successful intervention/lock-in effect paradox’ occurs when using subsidized employment as an activation intervention. The article is based on a qualitative interview study with eight social workers and 11 subsidized employees from a Swedish municipal labour market program that offered subsidised employment as its main intervention. The interviews were analysed using the concepts of social identity and symbolic community. The article shows that subsidized employment plays a crucial role in subsidised employees constructing their identity as ‘persons with a job’, as distinct from the activation interventions usually associated with social assistance. The labor market programme serves as a transformative space where receiving a salary becomes a symbol of distinction, marking a significant departure from past experiences of receiving social assistance. The article also highlights the role of social workers in subsidised employees’ identity processes. The social workers perceived the subsidised employees as participants with special needs, and subsidiszd employment as an intervention which could influence the planning and support provided during the subsidized employment. The collective identity developed by the participants fostered a sense of community, but also led to reluctance to leave the program, driven by the fear of reverting to social assistance, and once again being excluded from the labor market. The article concludes that the subsidized employees risked getting stuck in a borderland between work exclusion and work inclusion and, therefore, that subsidised employment can potentially place participants in a state of ‘marginalised inclusion’ in the labor market, instead of supporting participants into regular employment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Opportunities of AI within PES processes and services: PES Network Report exploring PES experiences, best practices and emerging business value (2025)
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Pieterson, Willem (2025): Opportunities of AI within PES processes and services. PES Network Report exploring PES experiences, best practices and emerging business value. Luxemburg: Publications Office of the European Union, 67 S. DOI:10.2767/84293
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"Artificial intelligence (AI), as a branch of advanced data analytics, is a rapidly evolving field. The release of Chat Generative Pretrained Transformer (ChatGPT) in 2022 and the many tools and applications using Generative AI (GenAI) highlight new possibilities. Many governments and public sector agencies are interested in how AI can transform their processes and client services – Public Employment Services (PES) are no exception. An Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) study in 2022 suggests that most PES are now showing concrete interest in adopting AI: nearly 40% of PES are looking into AI tools or tools using other types of advanced analytics (AA) to support jobseeker profiling, while more than 40% see the potential of AI for job matching or career services, such as identifying skill gaps. (…) This report compiles a more complete overview of existing and planned AI practices across European PES. It analyses their outcomes, the challenges PES face, and the context in which these developments take place." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Supported Employment: Arbeitsintegration für Personen mit erschwertem Zugang zum Arbeitsmarkt (2025)
Schaufelberger, Daniel;Zitatform
Schaufelberger, Daniel (2025): Supported Employment. Arbeitsintegration für Personen mit erschwertem Zugang zum Arbeitsmarkt. Freiburg im Breisgau: Lambertus-Verlag, 149 S. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10259182
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"Bei Supported Employment werden Personen mit Benachteiligungen dabei unterstützt, dauerhaft eine bezahlte Arbeit auf dem allgemeinen Arbeitsmarkt zu finden. Es gilt als besonders wirksamer Ansatz der Arbeitsintegration. Die aktualisierte Auflage gibt einen Überblick zu Supported Employment und zeigt, was die Umsetzung - unter Berücksichtigung der Rahmenbedingungen in der Schweiz - bedeutet. Job Coaches, Fach- und Führungskräfte sowie Verwaltungsverantwortliche im Bereich Arbeitsmarktintegration sowie Studierende der Sozialen Arbeit erhalten damit eine kompakte und praxisnahe Orientierung zum Konzept und zur Umsetzung von Supported Employment und Supported Education." (Verlagsangaben, IAB-Doku)
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Citizen among Institutions. Fragmentation and Trust in Social Assistance (2025)
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Schneider, Stephanie, Maria Theiss, Wojciech Gędek & Ulrike Zschache (2025): Citizen among Institutions. Fragmentation and Trust in Social Assistance. In: Social Policy and Society, Jg. 24, H. 4, S. 684-700. DOI:10.1017/s147474642510078x
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"Citizen trust in public institutions has become a major concern for policy makers, but how institutional design affects institutional trust is not entirely clear. Existing research has mainly focused on the macro-level of welfare regimes or on the micro-level of citizens’ or frontline workers’ attributes. Our knowledge about interrelations between organisational aspects of welfare delivery and (dis)trust-formation at the meso-level of institutional design remains scarce. In the article, we investigate how users experience institutional fragmentation and how this impacts their trust in the welfare system. Based on forty-three interviews with social assistance users in Germany and Poland, we demonstrate that fragmentation is indeed relevant as an experiential context for (dis)trust-formation. However, we found that low institutional fragmentation is not, per se, trust-promoting and that higher fragmentation can be a driver for developing trust in individual caseworkers. Citizens’ perceptions of procedural justice and experienced administrative burdens are discussed as possible mediators." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Assessing the impact of labour market spendings on unemployment dynamics across demographics in OECD countries (2025)
Shaikh, Osama; Ozturk, Selcen;Zitatform
Shaikh, Osama & Selcen Ozturk (2025): Assessing the impact of labour market spendings on unemployment dynamics across demographics in OECD countries. In: Public sector economics, Jg. 49, H. 4, S. 527-562. DOI:10.3326/pse.49.4.2
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"This study investigates the long-run effects of labour market policies on unemployment dynamics in 36 OECD countries from 2004 to 2022. Derived from second-generation panel methods that address cross-sectional dependence and heterogeneity, the results indicate that activation policies without providing employment maintenance incentives are associated with higher unemployment. Institutional and public training expenditures mainly reduce youth unemployment, while minimum income benefits and wages contribute to higher adult and total unemployment, reflecting disincentivising effects and wage rigidities. Rising labour force participation increases measured unemployment by re-engaging marginally attached workers. Robustness checks across sub-periods and welfare-regime clusters reveal heterogeneity, showing that policy effects are context-dependent and time-sensitive rather than uniformly stable. Causality tests confirm two-way interactions between unemployment and labour market policies. These findings underscore the need for nuanced, age-specific strategies that integrate activation measures, targeted training, and carefully calibrated income support to promote inclusive and effective labour markets in advanced economies." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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A program evaluation of the new choices workforce development program: An appreciative inquiry approach (2025)
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Whitacre, Denise (2025): A program evaluation of the new choices workforce development program: An appreciative inquiry approach. In: Evaluation and program planning, Jg. 108. DOI:10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2024.102507
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"A significant amount of money ($1.76B annually in the United States) is spent on workforce development programs, while there is limited research on the effectiveness of workforce development programs in meeting their program objectives and assisting program participants in attaining employment. This study evaluated the New Choices Program, a workforce development program offered by PA Women Work, to help its clients obtain employment and overcome personal and professional barriers. The program has historically been offered in a 30-hour in person format but was forced to be modified to a 10-hour virtual program when the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions began. This program evaluation included a comparative analysis of the perceptions of participants in the 30-hour in person program and the 10-hour virtual program. It was found that participants in both the 30-hour in person program and 10-hour virtual program perceived the program positively, experienced an increase in self-confidence and belonging, which led to either obtaining employment or being better prepared for the job search process. The data will help inform the New Choices program stakeholders on programmatic improvements and how best to structure the program in the post-pandemic employment world." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd.) ((en))
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Which training leads to employment? The effectiveness of varying types of training programmes for unemployed jobseekers in Flanders (2025)
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Wood, Jonas, Karel Neels & Sunčica Vujić (2025): Which training leads to employment? The effectiveness of varying types of training programmes for unemployed jobseekers in Flanders. In: Journal of Social Policy, Jg. 54, H. 2, S. 651-672. DOI:10.1017/S0047279423000648
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"Despite the large body of ALMP evaluations focussing on isolated training programmes for unemployed jobseekers, our understanding of potential reasons for (in)effectiveness remains limited. Specific training programs aim to remediate particular supply- or demand-side barriers to employment experienced by targeted jobseekers. Consequently, this study unpacks training into four different types: (I) general classroom training (GCT) to enhance motivation and job search skills, (II) occupation-specific classroom training (OCT) addressing gaps in human capital, (III) non-contractual workplace training (NCWT) combining human capital acquisition with workplace experience, and (IV) contractual workplace training (CWT) additionally including a temporary wage subsidy to reduce hiring costs for employers. Using large-scale longitudinal register data, dynamic propensity score matching, and hazard models indicate positive effects of OCT participation, and particularly NCWT programs allowing human and social capital accumulation in a workplace setting, on the transition into (stable) regular employment. In contrast, the non-effects for GCT participants highlight the need for more follow-up programs, and the fact that, after controlling for the selective recruitment by employers of unemployed jobseekers with relatively strong profiles, CWT programme participants show moderate, short-lived positive effects which might inspire policymakers to reconsider program assignment in light of cream-skimming by employers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Incentive-based active labor market programs: Insights from policy experimentation in Italy (2025)
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Zanella, Giulio & Riccardo Salomone (2025): Incentive-based active labor market programs: Insights from policy experimentation in Italy. In: Labour Economics, Jg. 93. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2025.102687
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"Two programs providing financial incentives for reemployment of workers at risk of long-term unemployment are evaluated vis-à-vis intensive job-search assistance through policy experimentation involving about 10,000 job seekers in Italy: (i) a reemployment voucher that incentivizes specialized providers; (ii) a reemployment bonus that incentivizes job seekers directly. Results indicate that: the voucher is effective for men while the bonus works for women; each policy is no less effective than job-search assistance, but only the voucher is clearly cost effective; there are no side effects on post-treatment earnings or job duration. A one-sided job search model with endogenous search effort rationalizes these empirical findings." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2025 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.) ((en))
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How Do Caseworkers Affect Job Search Outcomes? (2025)
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Ziegler, Lennart (2025): How Do Caseworkers Affect Job Search Outcomes? (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 18094), Bonn, 29 S.
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"This paper examines how caseworkers influence job finding rates and job quality. To rule out selection effects, I exploit that caseworkers are assigned based on the jobseekers' month of birth in some offices of the Austrian public employment service. Combining administrative data on caseworkers and jobseekers, I compute value-added measures for multiple jobseeker outcomes. A one-standard-deviation increase in caseworker performance corresponds to six additional days of employment in the first year and two percent higher earnings. For older workers and workers of foreign nationality, I observe the largest differences in caseworker performance. Employment and earnings effects are positively correlated, suggesting that faster job finding does not come at the expense of job quality. Analyzing differences in caseworker strategies, I find that caseworkers who refer more vacancies to jobseekers achieve higher employment rates, and those who refer better-paying jobs also achieve higher earnings. In contrast, frequent use of training programs or benefit sanctions is associated with worse job search outcomes." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Deemed as ‘Distant’: Categorizing Unemployment in Sweden’s Evolving Welfare Landscape (2025)
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Östling, Maja (2025): Deemed as ‘Distant’: Categorizing Unemployment in Sweden’s Evolving Welfare Landscape. In: Social Sciences, Jg. 14, H. 3. DOI:10.3390/socsci14030129
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"Over the past 30 years, Swedish labor market politics has swayed towards stronger workfare tendencies, emphasizing activation requirements for unemployed individuals to access welfare benefits. This process aligns with broader neoliberal reforms, fostering an individualistic view of unemployment characterized by personal responsibility for employability. In 2023, the Swedish Public Employment Service (PES) published a report addressing the needs of and solutions for long-term unemployed individuals ‘distant from the labor market’ (Sw. personer långt från arbetsmarknaden), marking the first formal use of this term as the main adhesive category in a political document. This paper examines the construction of the subject position ‘distant from the labor market’, investigating how it delineates and differentiates subgroups within the unemployed population, how this subgroup is understood in relation to other actors, and how discursive frameworks imbue this category with various meanings. Lastly, the paper discusses the categorization in relation to the current developments in the Swedish welfare system, arguing that the formalization of this category should be understood in relation to parallel political processes, such as proposals for a duty of activity for the unemployed, suggesting how this points to a way forward defined by neoliberal tendencies and welfare conditionality." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Long-term effects of hiring subsidies for low-educated unemployed youths (2024)
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Albanese, Andrea, Bart Cockx & Muriel Dejemeppe (2024): Long-term effects of hiring subsidies for low-educated unemployed youths. In: Journal of Public Economics, Jg. 235. DOI:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105137
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"We use regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences methods to estimate the impact of a onetime hiring subsidy for low-educated unemployed youths in Belgium during the recovery from the Great Recession. Within a year of unemployment, the subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points. Over six years, high school graduates secure 2.8 more quarters of private employment. However, they transition from public jobs and self-employment, resulting in no net increase in overall employment, albeit with better wages. High school dropouts experience no lasting benefits. Additionally, in tight labor markets near Luxembourg’s employment hub, the subsidy results in a complete deadweight loss." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Elsevier) ((en))
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Does Federally Funded Job Training Work?: Nonexperimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and Firms (2024)
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Andersson, Fredrik, Harry J. Holzer, Julia I. Lane, David Rosenblum & Jeffrey Smith (2024): Does Federally Funded Job Training Work? Nonexperimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and Firms. In: The Journal of Human Resources, Jg. 59, H. 4, S. 1244-1283. DOI:10.3368/jhr.0816-8185r1
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"We study the effect of U.S. Workforce Investment Act (WIA) training in two states using matched employer–employee data. This allows us to estimate the impact of training on firm characteristics and to assess the value of firm characteristics measured prior to training as conditioning variables. We find moderate positive impacts of training on employment and earnings for adults, but not for dislocated workers. We find limited evidence of positive effects on firm characteristics for adults in one state, but clear evidence of effects on industry of employment for most groups. Firm characteristics add little value as conditioning variables." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System) ((en))
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Zum Entwurf eines Gesetzes zur Modernisierung der Arbeitslosenversicherung und Arbeitsförderung – SGB-III-Modernisierungsgesetz: Stellungnahme des IAB zur öffentlichen Anhörung im Ausschuss für Arbeit und Soziales des Deutschen Bundestags am 4.11.2024 (2024)
Anger, Silke ; Ehab, Maye ; Wolff, Joachim ; Hauptmann, Andreas ; Kupka, Peter ; Jaschke, Philipp ; Bruckmeier, Kerstin ; Wiemers, Jürgen ; Berger, Franziska; Weber, Enzo ; Janssen, Simon ; Tübbicke, Stefan ; Falkenhain, Mariella ; Toussaint, Carina ; Kassam, Kamal ; Stephan, Gesine ; Fitzenberger, Bernd ; Sommer, Maximilian ; Globisch, Claudia ; Jahn, Elke ; Bernhard, Sarah ; Senghaas, Monika ; Leber, Ute ; Schels, Brigitte ; Fuchs, Philipp ; Lerche, Adrian ; Sandner, Malte ; Feldens, Stefan; Oberfichtner, Michael ; Röhrer, Stefan ; Kosyakova, Yuliya ; Reims, Nancy ;Zitatform
Anger, Silke, Franziska Berger, Sarah Bernhard, Kerstin Bruckmeier, Maye Ehab, Mariella Falkenhain, Stefan Feldens, Bernd Fitzenberger, Philipp Fuchs, Claudia Globisch, Andreas Hauptmann, Elke Jahn, Philipp Jaschke, Kamal Kassam, Yuliya Kosyakova, Peter Kupka, Simon Janssen, Ute Leber, Adrian Lerche, Michael Oberfichtner, Nancy Reims, Stefan Röhrer, Malte Sandner, Brigitte Schels, Monika Senghaas, Joachim Wolff, Jürgen Wiemers, Enzo Weber, Stefan Tübbicke, Carina Toussaint, Gesine Stephan & Maximilian Sommer (2024): Zum Entwurf eines Gesetzes zur Modernisierung der Arbeitslosenversicherung und Arbeitsförderung – SGB-III-Modernisierungsgesetz. Stellungnahme des IAB zur öffentlichen Anhörung im Ausschuss für Arbeit und Soziales des Deutschen Bundestags am 4.11.2024. (IAB-Stellungnahme 06/2024), Nürnberg, 40 S. DOI:10.48720/IAB.SN.2406
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"Die Bundesregierung hat einen umfangreichen Entwurf eines Gesetzes zur Modernisierung der Arbeitslosenversicherung und Arbeitsförderung (SGB-III-Modernisierungsgesetz) vorgelegt, der am 4.11.2024 im Ausschuss für Arbeit und Soziales des Deutschen Bundestags in einer öffentlichen Anhörung zum SGB-III-Modernisierungsgesetz behandelt wurde. Darin geht es um die Weiterentwicklung des Vermittlungsprozesses, Vereinfachungen und Entlastungen im Versicherungs-und Leistungsrecht, die Anpassung von Förderinstrumenten und den Ausbau der Förderinstrumente der Bundesagentur für Arbeit. Unter Bezugnahme auf vorhandene Forschungsergebnisse nimmt das IAB Stellung zu den geplanten Änderungen von SGB III und SGB II." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Anger, Silke ; Ehab, Maye ; Wolff, Joachim ; Hauptmann, Andreas ; Jaschke, Philipp ; Bruckmeier, Kerstin ; Wiemers, Jürgen ; Weber, Enzo ; Janssen, Simon ; Tübbicke, Stefan ; Falkenhain, Mariella ; Toussaint, Carina ; Kassam, Kamal ; Stephan, Gesine ; Fitzenberger, Bernd ; Sommer, Maximilian ; Globisch, Claudia ; Jahn, Elke ; Bernhard, Sarah ; Senghaas, Monika ; Leber, Ute ; Lerche, Adrian ; Sandner, Malte ; Oberfichtner, Michael ; Röhrer, Stefan ; Kosyakova, Yuliya ; Reims, Nancy ;Weiterführende Informationen
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Zum Entwurf des SGB-III-Modernisierungsgesetzes: Stellungnahme des IAB zum Referentenentwurf eines Gesetzes zur Modernisierung der Arbeitslosenversicherung und Arbeitsförderung am 24.7.2024 (2024)
Anger, Silke ; Toussaint, Carina ; Lerche, Adrian ; Stephan, Gesine ; Oberfichtner, Michael ; Tübbicke, Stefan ; Bernhard, Sarah ; Janssen, Simon ; Reims, Nancy ; Senghaas, Monika ; Sandner, Malte ; Leber, Ute ; Schels, Brigitte ;Zitatform
Anger, Silke, Sarah Bernhard, Simon Janssen, Ute Leber, Adrian Lerche, Michael Oberfichtner, Nancy Reims, Malte Sandner, Brigitte Schels, Monika Senghaas, Gesine Stephan, Carina Toussaint & Stefan Tübbicke (2024): Zum Entwurf des SGB-III-Modernisierungsgesetzes. Stellungnahme des IAB zum Referentenentwurf eines Gesetzes zur Modernisierung der Arbeitslosenversicherung und Arbeitsförderung am 24.7.2024. (IAB-Stellungnahme 01/2024), Nürnberg, 19 S. DOI:10.48720/IAB.SN.2401
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"Mit dem SGB-III-Modernisierungsgesetz sollen die Arbeitslosenversicherung und die Arbeitsförderung bürgerfreundlicher, transparenter, effizienter und unbürokratischer gestaltet werden. Das IAB nimmt Stellung zu folgenden Aspekten des Referentenentwurfs dieses Gesetzes: Kooperationsplan zur Eingliederung im SGB III, Reform des Gründungszuschusses, rechtskreisübergreifende Kooperationen/Jugendberufsagenturen, Beratung für junge Menschen, Berufsorientierungspraktikum und außerbetriebliche Ausbildung." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Anger, Silke ; Toussaint, Carina ; Lerche, Adrian ; Stephan, Gesine ; Oberfichtner, Michael ; Tübbicke, Stefan ; Bernhard, Sarah ; Janssen, Simon ; Reims, Nancy ; Senghaas, Monika ; Sandner, Malte ; Leber, Ute ; -
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Long-term employment and health effects of active labor market programs (2024)
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Baekgaard, Martin, Søren Albeck Nielsen, Michael Rosholm & Michael Svarer (2024): Long-term employment and health effects of active labor market programs. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Jg. 121, H. 50. DOI:10.1073/pnas.2411439121
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"Active labor market programs (ALMPs) are widely used to speed up return to work among the unemployed. We examine their long-run effects on employment- and health-related outcomes for different target groups, arguing that ALMPs are associated with heterogeneous effects for different target groups and may even detrimentally influence the mental health for the most disadvantaged groups. To this end, we use evidence from randomized controlled trials conducted in Denmark in 2005–2008, in which treatment groups were exposed to intensified active labor market policies in the form of more frequent compulsory meetings with case workers and/or early activation and estimate effects over a period of 10 y. In line with expectations, we find that while ALMPs have the potential to increase labor market participation among resourceful clients even 10 after the original intervention, they have long-run negative effects on the mental health for the most disadvantaged groups among the unemployed. The negative effects are entirely driven by clients who already prior to the trial had mental health issues. These findings suggest that the effects of ALMPs are lasting, but at the same time greatly depend on how they fit with the resources of clients." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Lebensbegleitende Berufsberatung - auf dem Weg zur künftigen Arbeitsagentur (2024)
Behrens, Markus; Pfeiffer, Johannes;Zitatform
Behrens, Markus & Johannes Pfeiffer (2024): Lebensbegleitende Berufsberatung - auf dem Weg zur künftigen Arbeitsagentur. In: J. Bullerjahn, T. Kralinski & M. Platzeck (Hrsg.) (2024): Deutschland und sein Sozialstaat, S. 202-213.
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"Der deutsche Sozialstaat sieht sich im Jahr 2022 mehreren Krisen zeitgleich gegenübergestellt: Coronapandemie, Fachkräftemangel, Ukraine-Konflikt, Inflation und Energiekrise bestimmen die Berichterstattung sowie das Leben und die Probleme der Bevölkerung. Am Beispiel der Arbeitsverwaltung soll im Folgenden beschrieben werden, wie es dem deutschen Sozialstaat in der Vergangenheit gelungen ist, Krisen zu bewältigen, und wie dies in Zukunft mit Blick auf die bereits jetzt absehbaren Herausforderungen infolge der Megatrends Demografie, Digitalisierung und Dekarbonisierung auch weiterhin gelingen kann. Hierfür wird zunächst der Umbau vom Arbeitsamt zur modernen Dienstleisterin am Arbeitsmarkt sowie der Beitrag der Bundesagentur für Arbeit zum Krisenmanagement der drei großen Krisen des 21. Jahrhunderts (Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise 2008/2009, Flüchtlingskrise 2015/2016 und Coronapandemie seit 2020) skizziert. Daran anschließend erfolgt die Darstellung der aktuellen strategischen Ausrichtung der Bundesagentur für Arbeit angesichts der zukünftigen gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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A journey into the new employment service landscape of responsibilisation: Towards de-personalisation of the caseworker–jobseeker relationship (2024)
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Bengtsson, Mattias, Kerstin Jacobsson & Ylva Wallinder (2024): A journey into the new employment service landscape of responsibilisation: Towards de-personalisation of the caseworker–jobseeker relationship. In: International Journal of Social Welfare, Jg. 33, H. 1, S. 137-150. DOI:10.1111/ijsw.12584
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"The article analyses a new culture of responsibilisation implicated in a recent management reform in the Swedish Public Employment Service. Based on an interview study and organisational documents, it is shown that the reform entails a new form of responsibilisation of jobseekers as well as caseworkers. As jobseekers are expected to ‘carry their own case’ through the administrative job-search process, they are obliged to manage tasks that used to be in the caseworker's area of responsibility. Furthermore, caseworkers are expected to regulate themselves in new ways and change their mind-set according to new organisational values and behavioural norms, requiring a restraining of their availability to clients. It is argued that the employment agency is increasingly turned into the agency of the active and responsible jobseeker, which entails one further shift towards individual responsibility in Swedish labour market policy and one further step towards the breakup of a personal caseworker–jobseeker relationship." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))
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Eingliederungszuschüsse für Arbeitslose wirken als Sprungbrett in den allgemeinen Arbeitsmarkt ( Serie „Evaluation von Instrumenten der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik“) (2024)
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Bernhard, Sarah & Christine Dauth (2024): Eingliederungszuschüsse für Arbeitslose wirken als Sprungbrett in den allgemeinen Arbeitsmarkt ( Serie „Evaluation von Instrumenten der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik“). In: IAB-Forum H. 15.01.2024 Nürnberg. DOI:10.48720/IAB.FOO.20240115.01
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"Der Eingliederungszuschuss soll Arbeitsuchenden den Weg in eine sozialversicherungspflichtige Beschäftigung ebnen. Tatsächlich deuten viele Studien auf verbesserte Beschäftigungschancen für Geförderte hin. Gleichwohl sollte das Instrument behutsam eingesetzt werden, um unnötige Mitnahmeeffekte zu vermeiden." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Cash transfers and fertility: Evidence from Poland’s Family 500+ Policy (2024)
Bokun, Anna;Zitatform
Bokun, Anna (2024): Cash transfers and fertility: Evidence from Poland’s Family 500+ Policy. In: Demographic Research, Jg. 51, S. 855-910. DOI:10.4054/demres.2024.51.28
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"Background: To increase the lowest fertility rate in the European Union in 2015, combat poverty, and invest in children’s human capital, the Polish government launched a pronatalist cash transfer program in 2016. Objective: What are the short-term fertility effects of the Family 500+ cash transfer? Which groups of women responded to the cash transfer? Methods: Using the Polish Household Budget Survey (2010–2018), I estimate linear probability regression models to identify the effect of the cash transfer on the probability of a birth as a function of a woman’s cash transfer eligibility, including heterogeneous effects by age, income, and education. Results: In the short term, the cash transfer is associated with an increased annual probability of overall births by 1.5 percentage points. Heterogeneity analyses reveal the cash transfer is associated with increased fertility for women aged 31–40 (0.7 to 1.8 percentage points), in contrast to decreased fertility for women aged 21–30 (2.2 to 2.6 percentage points) and women with higher household incomes (1 percentage point). Conclusions: This analysis provides mixed evidence on the short-term efficacy of the cash transfer on fertility. Some demographic groups are more sensitive to the additional income, suggesting that the economic and social barriers to fertility are not equally distributed in the Polish population. Contribution: Descriptive analyses of changing short-term fertility can facilitate timely adjustments to policies, identify emerging trends that may signal long-term patterns, and inform resource allocation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Max-Planck-Institut für demographische Forschung) ((en))
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Kosten-Nutzen-Analysen der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik: Eine Einschätzung (2024)
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Bruckmeier, Kerstin, Claudia Lehnert, Gesine Stephan & Joachim Wolff (2024): Kosten-Nutzen-Analysen der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik: Eine Einschätzung. (IAB-Forschungsbericht 21/2024), Nürnberg, 23 S. DOI:10.48720/IAB.FB.2421
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"Aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik ist – sofern sie wirksam ist – eine Investition in die Beschäftigungschancen der von Arbeitslosigkeit betroffenen bzw. bedrohten Menschen. Sie kann insbesondere im Bereich der Grundsicherung auch sozialpolitische Ziele erreichen, wie z.B. sehr arbeitsmarktfernen Personen überhaupt einen Zugang zum Arbeitsmarkt zu ermöglichen. Ziel dieses Beitrags ist eine Einschätzung des Potenzials von Kosten-Nutzen-Analysen der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik. Er geht ferner auf die Aussagekraft solcher Analysen ein, die aus verschiedenen Gründen eingeschränkt ist. Zu den Wirkungen der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik auf die Arbeitsmarktchancen der Geförderten liegen zahlreiche Studien vor. Auf der individuellen Ebene erweisen sich die Instrumente der Arbeitsmarktpolitik in der Regel als wirksam. Nicht jede Maßnahme, die wirksam ist, muss jedoch auch (aus einer vereinfachten fiskalischen Sicht) kosteneffizient sein. Gerade bei knappen Haushaltsmitteln gibt es in Politik und Verwaltung daher ein hohes Interesse an Kosten-Nutzen-Analysen der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik. In der Praxis unterliegen diese jedoch verschiedenen Einschränkungen. Kosten und Nutzen arbeitsmarktpolitischer Instrumente können auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen und in verschiedener Hinsicht anfallen. Die fiskalische Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse bewertet Kosten und Nutzen arbeitsmarktpolitischer Instrumente für die öffentlichen Haushalte in monetären Größen. Bereits bei der Abschätzung direkter fiskalischer Effekte gibt es verschiedene methodische Herausforderungen. Neben direkten fiskalischen Komponenten kann es auch Makro- und Wohlfahrtseffekte der Arbeitsförderung geben, die teils über den Arbeitsmarkt hinausreichen. Bei der sozialen Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse steht aus einer gesamtgesellschaftlichen Perspektive die in Nutzeneinheiten gemessene Wohlfahrt der Gesamtheit an Individuen im Vordergrund. Während Wirkungsanalysen vergleichsweise einfach zu interpretieren sind, stellt sich dies bei Kosten-Nutzen-Analysen daher anders dar. Es gibt unterschiedliche Ebenen, an denen Kosten-Nutzen-Analysen ansetzen können. Für gesamtwirtschaftliche Analysen ist es in der Regel kaum möglich, alle erforderlichen Größen abzuschätzen. Bei den bislang vorherrschenden direkten fiskalischen Kosten-Nutzen-Analysen aus Sicht der öffentlichen Hand gibt es hingegen zahlreiche Einschränkungen, die bei einer Interpretation zu beachten sind. Aufgrund der genannten Einschränkungen und Annahmen ist es extrem vereinfachend und unter Umständen sogar irreführend, den Nettonutzen einer Maßnahme in einer einzigen Zahl zusammenzufassen. Denn Kosten und Nutzen der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik lassen sich eben nicht vollständig erfassen und damit nicht exakt beziffern. Die Autor*innen dieses Beitrags plädieren daher dafür, statt klassischer fiskalischer Kosten-Nutzen-Analysen quantitative und qualitative Bewertungen bzw. Einordnungen vorzunehmen. Diese sollten – soweit entsprechende Angaben verfügbar sind – Kosten und Nutzen diskutieren, dabei aber auch nicht monetäre Kosten- und Nutzenkomponenten berücksichtigen und auf weitere Aspekte wie Zielgruppen und Förderziele eingehen. Nur wenn auch die nicht monetären Aspekte berücksichtigt werden, lässt sich beurteilen, ob eine Maßnahme zweckmäßig ist. Zur Einordnung gehört auch, den Grad der Unsicherheit einer Analyse deutlich zu machen, der sich daraus ergibt, dass zu relevanten Aspekten möglicherweise keine empirische Evidenz vorliegt. Daher sollte auch offengelegt werden, welche Aussagen unter Umständen auf mehr oder weniger weitreichenden, aber empirisch nicht oder nur teilweise abgesicherten Annahmen beruhen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Did Unemployment Insurance Modernization Provisions Increase Benefit Receipt among Economically Disadvantaged Workers? (2024)
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Chang, Yu-Ling & Leslie Hodges (2024): Did Unemployment Insurance Modernization Provisions Increase Benefit Receipt among Economically Disadvantaged Workers? In: Social Service Review, Jg. 98, H. 1, S. 139-177. DOI:10.1086/728680
Abstract
"This study investigates the effects of state expansions of unemployment insurance (UI) eligibility criteria on UI recipiency among unemployed workers. Using a difference-in-differences approach and data from the Current Population Survey (2003-2020), we find evidence largely consistent with the expected overall and differential effects of the expansions. An alternative base period (ABP) increases UI take-up by approximately 5 percentage points. Some evidence suggests compelling family reasons provisions increase take-up among caregivers but not those without caring responsibilities. Part-time provisions increase take-up among previously part-time workers, with no effect on previously full-time workers. The estimated magnitudes are around 6 percentage points. In addition, we observe some evidence of differential impacts by gender. Our findings contribute insights into UI policy conversations, including federal mandates for ABP and part-time provisions in eligibility determinations." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Hiring subsidies for low-educated unemployed youths are ineffective in a tight labor market (2024)
Dejemeppe, Muriel; Delpierre, Matthieu; Pourtois, Mathilde;Zitatform
Dejemeppe, Muriel, Matthieu Delpierre & Mathilde Pourtois (2024): Hiring subsidies for low-educated unemployed youths are ineffective in a tight labor market. (GLO discussion paper / Global Labor Organization 1451), Essen, 38 S.
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"We evaluate the impact of hiring subsidies for unemployed jobseekers in Wallonia, the Frenchspeaking region in the south of Belgium. The special feature of these subsidies is that they are more readily available for low-educated youths, who are eligible from registration as a jobseeker or a few months later. In contrast, others must wait 12 months to be eligible. We exploit this difference in a regression discontinuity design and show that earlier access to subsidies does not enhance the jobfinding rate of the target group. We attribute the lack of effect to the pre-pandemic tightening of the labor market." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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"New Plan", berufliche Weiterentwicklung und die Rolle von Informationen (2024)
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Dohmen, Thomas, Eva Kleifgen, Steffen Künn & Gesine Stephan (2024): "New Plan", berufliche Weiterentwicklung und die Rolle von Informationen. (IAB-Forschungsbericht 01/2024), Nürnberg, 33 S. DOI:10.48720/IAB.FB.2401
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"In der sich wandelnden Arbeitswelt reicht es in der Regel nicht mehr aus, einmal im Leben einen Beruf zu erlernen. Oft ist im bisherigen Beruf eine Weiterentwicklung sinnvoll oder sogar erforderlich; eventuelle Berufswechsel erfordern dann häufig den Erwerb neuer Kenntnisse und Fähigkeiten. Um die Chancen und Herausforderungen einschätzen zu können, ist eine gute Informationsbasis erforderlich. Die Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) hat im Rahmen ihrer Berufsberatung im Erwerbsleben (BBiE) das Online-Tool New Plan entwickelt. Dieses soll Menschen dabei helfen im Beruf voranzukommen, die eigenen Stärken zu erkennen und neue Perspektiven zu finden. Das Tool besteht aus drei Bereichen: „Möglichkeiten testen“, „Inspirieren lassen“, „Weiterbildung suchen“. Der Bereich „Inspirieren“ stellt dabei auf Berufsebene umfassende Informationen für eine mögliche berufliche Umorientierung zur Verfügung. Dieser Forschungsbericht stellt Ergebnisse aus einer Online-Befragung von Beschäftigten und Personen, die Arbeitslosengeld bezogen, vor. Die Befragung hat unter anderem erhoben, ob Personen New Plan kannten und nutzten, an beruflicher Weiterentwicklung interessiert waren und sich gut über ihre Verdienst- und Beschäftigungsmöglichkeiten informiert fühlten. Der Bericht geht zudem der Frage nach, ob Personen diese Fragen anders beantworteten, wenn sie zuvor ein Informationsschreiben zu New Plan erhalten hatten. Zu der Befragung wurden im Juni 2022 Personen eingeladen, die im Januar 2022 zu einer der folgenden vier Gruppen gehörten: sozialversicherungspflichtig Vollzeitbeschäftigte (einschließlich Personen in Helfertätigkeiten), sozialversicherungspflichtig Vollzeitbeschäftigte in Helfertätigkeiten, Arbeitslosengeldempfänger*innen (einschließlich Personen ohne Berufsabschluss), Arbeitslosengeldempfänger*innen ohne Berufsabschluss. Insgesamt umfasst das hier ausgewertete Analysesample gut 4.400 Personen. Im Ergebnis zeigt sich, dass New Plan den Vollzeitbeschäftigten im Schnitt deutlich seltener bekannt war als den Personen, die zum damaligen Zeitpunkt bzw. davor Arbeitslosengeld bezogen hatten – ohne vorheriges Informationsschreiben betrugen die Anteile rund 2 bzw. 11 Prozent. Der Bekanntheitsgrad von New Plan stieg deutlich, wenn Personen zuvor ein Informationsschreiben erhalten hatten – bei den Vollzeitbeschäftigten und Arbeitslosengeldempfänger*innen nahm der Bekanntheitsgrad jeweils um 14 Prozentpunkte zu. Vollzeitbeschäftigte hatten New Plan ohne vorheriges Informationsschreiben mit 0,3 Prozent anteilig deutlich seltener angeschaut als Arbeitslosengeldempfänger*innen mit 8 Prozent. Hochgerechnet auf die aktuellen Grundgesamtheiten hätten demnach etwa 63.000 Vollzeitbeschäftigte und 61.000 Arbeitslosengeldempfänger*innen New Plan bereits einmal angeschaut. Auch hier zeigt sich, dass das vorher verschickte Informationsschreiben den Anteil der Befragten, der das Tool bereits angeschaut hatte, um etwa 10 Prozentpunkte erhöhen konnte. Die Befragung zeigt auch: Vollzeitbeschäftigte waren – mit knapp zwei Drittel – in etwas geringerem Ausmaß an beruflicher Weiterentwicklung interessiert als Arbeitslosengeldempfänger*innen. Deren Anteil lag hier bei knapp drei Vierteln – relativ unabhängig davon, ob die Befragten vorher ein Informationsschreiben erhalten hatten oder nicht. Die befragten Vollzeitbeschäftigten fühlten sich schließlich zu deutlich mehr als 50 Prozent (eher) gut über ihre Verdienst- und – in etwas höherem Umfang – über ihre Beschäftigungschancen informiert. Auch bei den Arbeitslosengeldempfänger*innen fühlten sich mehr als 50 Prozent (eher) gut informiert, bei wiederum nur geringen Unterschieden zwischen Personen mit oder ohne vorherigem Informationsschreiben." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Active Labor Market Policies: What Works for the Long-Term Unemployed? (2024)
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Eppel, Rainer, Ulrike Huemer, Helmut Mahringer & Lukas Schmoigl (2024): Active Labor Market Policies: What Works for the Long-Term Unemployed? In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Jg. 24, H. 1, S. 141-185. DOI:10.1515/bejeap-2023-0079
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"There is still a lack of knowledge on how to effectively help the long-term unemployed into employment. We evaluate a wide range of active labour market policies for this target group, using a dynamic matching approach. Measures vary considerably in the extent to which they improve labor market prospects. Human capital-intensive training programs that substantially enhance vocational skills and employment programs are most effective, short activating job search training the least. Our results suggest that not only wage subsidies in the private sector, but also direct job creation in the public and non-profit sectors can work, if properly designed." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © De Gruyter) ((en))
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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)
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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
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"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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Warum die aktuelle Bürgergelddebatte nicht die richtigen Schwerpunkte setzt (2024)
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Fitzenberger, Bernd (2024): Warum die aktuelle Bürgergelddebatte nicht die richtigen Schwerpunkte setzt. In: IAB-Forum H. 11.03.2024 Nürnberg. DOI:10.48720/IAB.FOO.20240311.01
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"Das Bürgergeld in seiner derzeitigen Form ist heftig umstritten. Viele Debattenbeiträge zeichnen dabei ein verengtes und teilweise unzutreffendes Bild. Denn die Vielschichtigkeit der Problemlagen von Menschen im Bürgergeldbezug wird oftmals verkannt. Anders als vielfach behauptet, haben Menschen, die nur Bürgergeld beziehen, in jedem Fall weniger Geld zur Verfügung als Menschen, die arbeiten. Trotz des Arbeitskräftemangels gelingt allerdings zu selten die Vermittlung in Beschäftigung – auch weil die Leistungsberechtigten häufig nicht zu den Profilen der offenen Stellen passen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Wie Arbeitsagenturen arbeitsmarktferne Arbeitslose durch spezialisierte Beratung unterstützen (2024)
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Fuchs, Philipp, Stefan Feldens & Claudia Globisch (2024): Wie Arbeitsagenturen arbeitsmarktferne Arbeitslose durch spezialisierte Beratung unterstützen. In: IAB-Forum H. 04.11.2024 Nürnberg. DOI:10.48720/IAB.FOO.20241104.01
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"Mit der „Internen ganzheitlichen Integrationsberatung“ (INGA) erhalten Arbeitslose mit komplexen Problemlagen eine intensive Beratung von den Arbeitsagenturen – also im Rechtskreis des Sozialgesetzbuchs III (SGB III). Erste Ergebnisse einer qualitativen Studie zeigen, dass INGA eine Angebotslücke schließt und größtenteils den konzeptionellen Ansprüchen an eine individuelle und ganzheitliche Beratung gerecht wird. Zugleich treten innerhalb der Arbeitsagenturen Spannungsverhältnisse zutage, die schwer zu beseitigen sind: Denn mit einer neuen Weisung werden zusätzlich Arbeitslose mit sehr komplexen Problemlagen für die INGA-Beratung vorgesehen, die von den einzelnen Arbeitsagenturen festgelegten Controlling-Ziele für die Beratung aber nicht unbedingt angepasst." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Explaining the abolition of the wage stop in the UK (2024)
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Grover, Chris (2024): Explaining the abolition of the wage stop in the UK. In: The Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, Jg. 32, H. 1, S. 47-64. DOI:10.1332/175982723x17029202968181
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"Before the introduction of the household benefit cap in the UK in 2013 the previous mechanism there limited the income of social assistance recipients was the wage stop, operating for four decades between 1935 and 1975. Similar to the benefit cap, the wage stop reflected and reproduced concerns with incentivising unemployed people to labour. This raises questions about why the wage stop was abolished in the mid-1970s when worries about unemployment continued, particularly its intersections with out-of-work benefits. It is widely argued that the abolition of the wage stop was a consequence of lobbying by the Child Poverty Action Group. Drawing upon records held at the UK’s National Archives, this article argues that this is an over-simplified explanation that, first, ignores concerns with the wage stop that pre-dated the Child Poverty Action Group’s criticism of it, including concerns within the assistance boards with its administration. And, second, while by the mid-1970s there was (albeit ambiguous) concern with the impacts of the wage stop, there was a shift in approach that emphasised the supplementation of low wages with social security benefits, rather than forcing social assistance below the assessed needs of households, as being a preferable means of ensuring the incentive to take wage-labour." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Policy Press) ((en))
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How Far from Full Employment? The European Unemployment Problem Revisited (2024)
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Gökten, Meryem, Philipp Heimberger & Andreas Lichtenberger (2024): How Far from Full Employment? The European Unemployment Problem Revisited. (WIIW working paper 245), Wien, 44 S.
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"This paper analyses deviations from full employment in EU countries, compared with the US and the UK. We apply the Beveridge (full-employment-consistent) rate of unemployment (BECRU), derived from the unemployment-vacancies relationship. The BECRU is the level of unemployment that minimizes the non-productive use of labor. Based on a novel dataset for the period 1970-2022, we find full employment episodes in selected EU countries (Germany, Sweden, Austria, Finland) during the 1970s. The European unemployment problem emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, as Beveridgean full employment gaps increased. In the run-up to the global financial crisis, full employment gaps declined, then increased during the Great Recession. Slack in labor markets increased initially during the pandemic. Labour markets became tighter when recovering from the COVID-19 crisis, but few countries hit full employment. Panel regressions highlight that hysteresis, labor market institutions, structural factors, macroeconomic factors and political factors contribute to explaining full employment gaps." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Legitimating collaboration, collaborating to legitimate: Justification work in “holistic” services for long-term unemployed persons (2024)
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Hansen, Magnus Paulsen, Signe Elmer Christensen & Peter Triantafillou (2024): Legitimating collaboration, collaborating to legitimate: Justification work in “holistic” services for long-term unemployed persons. In: Journal of Social Policy, Jg. 53, H. 3, S. 876-896. DOI:10.1017/S004727942200071X
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"To address complex social problems, such as long-term unemployment, local authorities in many countries are developing “holistic” or “integrated” services, where multiple actors and professions collaborate with a view to better meet the needs of the individual citizen. By breaking with existing practices and regulations, collaborative services must be legitimized in new ways so as to appear acceptable not only in the eyes of the public and politicians, but also to caseworkers and the long-term unemployed persons. This article examines the multifarious and sometimes neglected efforts to make these collaborative services legitimate in the eyes of this plurality of stakeholders on multiple levels of governance. Our study indicates three distinct but mutually interrelated spheres of audience that require partly conflicting justification work. We also find that the narrow pursuit of justification work to ensure legitimacy with one audience may potentially jeopardize the justification work in the other two." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Worker Heterogeneity and Optimal Unemployment Insurance: The Surprising Power of the Floor (2024)
Heiler, Simon J.;Zitatform
Heiler, Simon J. (2024): Worker Heterogeneity and Optimal Unemployment Insurance: The Surprising Power of the Floor. (CRC TR 224 discussion paper series / EPoS Collaborative Research Center Transregio 224 545), Bonn, 46 S.
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"Incentives to search for employment vary systematically with age and idiosyncratic labor productivity. These variations should be accounted for when designing UI policy, yet conditioning on related factors can be difficult or infeasible in practice. Using a life cycle model with endogenous human capital accumulation, idiosyncratic labor risk, and permanent differences in worker productivity, I analyze optimal UI policies. I find that for the U.S. an age-and-type-dependent policy generates welfare gains equal to 0.3 percentage points of consumption in all states and periods relative to a constant a replacement rate. Moreover, I demonstrate that about 80% of the gains from conditioning replacement rates on age only and about 60% of the welfare gains from conditioning on age and productivity can be generated by the current U.S. UI system. This can be achieved by substantially raising the benefit floor, a feature of the U.S. UI system that is largely ineffective in its current implementation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Effects of parental job loss on psychotropic drug use in children: Long-term effects, timing, and cumulative exposure (2024)
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Högberg, Björn & Anna Baranowska-Rataj (2024): Effects of parental job loss on psychotropic drug use in children: Long-term effects, timing, and cumulative exposure. In: Advances in life course research, Jg. 60. DOI:10.1016/j.alcr.2024.100607
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"Intra-family crossover effects triggered by job losses have received growing attention across scientific disciplines, but existing research has reached discrepant conclusions concerning if, and if so how, parental job losses affect child mental health. Drawing on sociological models of stress and life course epidemiology, we ask if parental job losses have long-term effects on child mental health, and if these effects are conditional on the timing of, or the cumulative exposure to, job losses. We use intergenerationally linked Swedish register data combined with entropy balance and structural nested mean models for the analyses. The data allow us to track 400,000 children over 14 years and thereby test different life-course models of cross-over effects. We identify involuntary job losses using information on workplace closures, thus reducing the risk of confounding. Results show that paternal but not maternal job loss significantly increases the risk of psychotropic drug use among children, that the average effects are modest in size (less than 4% in relative terms), that they may persist for up to five years, and that they are driven by children aged 6–10 years. Moreover, cumulative exposure to multiple job losses are more harmful than zero or one job loss." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Elsevier) ((en))
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More money, more effect? Employment effects of job search programs in Veneto (2024)
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Junquera, Álvaro F. (2024): More money, more effect? Employment effects of job search programs in Veneto. (SocArXiv papers), 26 S. DOI:10.31235/osf.io/rjshu
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"Despite being widely regarded as effective labor market interventions, the impact of job search programs on employment remains contested. Recent research challenges the assumption that the intensity of such programs is directly related with its effectiveness. We evaluate the effects of two treatments of an Italian active labour market program called Assegno per il Lavoro. Each intervention is made up of a voucher to fund job search assistance and a performance-based payment related to job search brokerage. Participants are assigned to a certain group with a certain treatment endowment that is increasing in function of a scoring variable. Leveraging this design, we applied a regression discontinuity analysis to estimate effects on the employment quantity and on the employment quality. We found null effects on the average of worked days for the two treatment comparisons, with transient small effects during the first year for the high endowment. Significant increases of approximately one month were observed at the median of the distribution for certain semesters, but later the effects fade away. This is the first paper studying the effect of the intensity of job search actions on employment in a European context. The main policy implication is a shift from a focus on intensity to a focus on other design elements." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Which Active Labor Market Policies Work for Male Refugees? Evidence from Germany (2024)
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Kasrin, Zein & Stefan Tübbicke (2024): Which Active Labor Market Policies Work for Male Refugees? Evidence from Germany. In: Journal of Social Policy, Jg. 53, H. 3, S. 727-750., 2022-05-24. DOI:10.1017/S0047279422000605
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"In this paper, we estimate the causal effects of a set of active labor market programs for male unemployed refugees on welfare who entered Germany between, 2013 and September, 2016. Using rich administrative data, we employ covariate balancing propensity scores combined with inverse probability weighting to estimate effects up to 33 months after the start of treatment. Our results show that relatively short-term training in the form of Schemes by Providers and In-Firm Training, as well as longer-term Further Vocational Training programs have a positive impact on both the employment chances as well as labor market earnings of refugees in the medium run. So-called “One Euro Jobs”, a public employment program, does not yield positive effects on employment or earnings. Sensitivity analyses confirm that our results are unlikely to be driven by unobserved confounding." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Cambridge University Press) ((en))
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Help or harm? Examining the effects of active labour market programmes on young adults' employment quality and the role of social origin (2024)
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Knize, Veronika & Markus Wolf (2024): Help or harm? Examining the effects of active labour market programmes on young adults' employment quality and the role of social origin. In: Journal of European Social Policy, Jg. 34, H. 5, S. 573-589., 2024-02-29. DOI:10.1177/09589287241268442
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"Active labor market programs (ALMPs) should help young adults who collect welfare benefits ‘get back on track’. Despite the recent proliferation of research on ALMPs, only scant attention has been paid to their employment quality effects. Aiming to fill this gap, this article evaluates the long-term effects of German ALMPs on young adults’ employment quality. We measure employment quality with two indicators: one on whether someone has a job with earnings below the low wage threshold and the other on whether they have a job with earnings above the low wage threshold. These measures help us assess whether ALMPs prevent young adults from being at risk of poverty again. In addition, we study whether ALMP effects vary by social origin. We distinguish young adults by whether their families collected benefits when they were adolescents, as a marker for disadvantaged social origin. We analyze in-firm training and one-euro jobs as examples for enabling and workfare programs, which exist across other welfare states as well. Empirically, we apply an entropy balancing approach to a self-drawn sample from registry data to analyze ALMP treatment effects. Results show that in-firm training enhances young adults’ employment quality in the long run. The effects tend to be lower for those from disadvantaged families though, indicating that disadvantages embedded in social origin remain. The workfare program harms participants’ employment quality, with those less disadvantaged suffering the greatest damage. Overall, our research provides evidence that in-firm training effectively enables young adults to find a job of higher quality, addressing their risk of social exclusion and proving useful in promoting upward social mobility. Nonetheless, the article also raises urgent issues concerning how the needs of those most vulnerable can be addressed by social policy." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © SAGE) ((en))
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Minimum Income and Social Inclusion Pathways : A review ofselected European Union programs (2024)
Marzi, Marta Serena Liliana; Cenedese, Francesco; Cherchi, Ludovica; Marini, Alessandra;Zitatform
Marzi, Marta Serena Liliana, Alessandra Marini, Ludovica Cherchi & Francesco Cenedese (2024): Minimum Income and Social Inclusion Pathways : A review ofselected European Union programs. (Social protection & jobs : discussion paper / World Bank Group, Social Protection & Jobs 2408), Washington, DC, 90 S.
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"Across European Union (EU) countries, the institutional design of Minimum Income (MI) programs varies widely in terms of the benefits and services provided to recipients, despite significant convergence toward a similar MI model and shared common approaches. This discussion paper investigates the delivery of social inclusion pathways, i.e., non-monetary support components to foster MI recipients' social inclusion and highlights common challenges and good practices across eight EU case study countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden). The paper shows that while some countries prioritize labor activation for workforce reintegration of MI recipients, others aim for broader social inclusion, recognizing the challenges in integrating such recipients into the labor market due to their complex needs. Moreover, the paper examines how the social inclusion pathway and case management interventions in MI programs affect recipient's welfare within poverty-targeted programs. It notes the lack of evidence on the effectiveness and impact of social inclusion pathways within MIs and mentions ongoing evaluations in Spain, Italy, and France to address this gap." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Participatory Support for NEET Young People: A Case Study of a Finnish Educational Project (2024)
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Määttä, Mirja, Sanna Toiviainen & Sanna Aaltonen (2024): Participatory Support for NEET Young People: A Case Study of a Finnish Educational Project. In: Journal of applied youth studies, Jg. 7, H. 1, S. 65-82. DOI:10.1007/s43151-024-00115-4
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"The aim of this paper is to offer a nuanced inquiry into the practices and scope of educational support offered to young people who are not in education, employment, or training (NEET). The study is based on participant observations and qualitative interviews with 35 young people and five project workers within the context of a Finnish educational project, which offered a daily group-based learning environment for 15-to-24-year-old NEET young people. Following a sociological interventionist approach, we interpret the logic of action—program theory—of the project, namely how the project workers defined the problems they intended to solve and what their aims and practical solutions were. Enhancing youth participation was the key point of their program theory. We juxtapose the program theory with young people's perceptions of how they experienced the project's participation-enhancing measures. In our analysis, we describe three levels of activity and participation forms the project enabled for the young people involved: individual, communal, and structural. The project enabled young people's participation by offering tailored support for education and work and a social learning community linking young people to the wider community. Structural and systemic hindrances were also acknowledged, but the project aimed at helping the students adapt to these rather than challenging them. The results of this case study suggest that projects targeting NEET young people can operate and have an effect beyond individual support but could pay more attention to the structural barriers and let young people develop their own critical thinking." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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'You had to be the Detective': Implementing Workfare in British Employment Services (2024)
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Redman, Jamie, Del Roy Fletcher, Richard White & Lindsey Mccarthy (2024): 'You had to be the Detective': Implementing Workfare in British Employment Services. In: Journal of Social Policy, Jg. 53, H. 4, S. 897-915. DOI:10.1017/S0047279422000733
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"British employment service delivery has shifted towards a model primed on core ‘workfare’ objectives – that is, enforcing behavioral compliance to work-related duties and expanding participation in work. Nevertheless, significant gaps remain in current knowledge about how workfare is implemented daily by frontline staff. The existing international street-level research on employment service delivery reveals how workers use a range of discretionary practices to achieve workfare objectives. Yet this research largely ignores how, in practice, a key aspect of enforcing behavioral compliance and encouraging work participation is through contending with its opposite – behavioral non-compliance. Analyzing 13 interviews with frontline staff, this article contributes to street-level knowledge by revealing the ways managers and workers in British employment services are encouraged to detect and correct variations of claimant non-compliance." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Gut beraten im Jobcenter?: Beratungsqualität als Herausforderung für Führung und Praxis (2024)
Rübner, Matthias; Schulze-Böing, Matthias;Zitatform
Rübner, Matthias & Matthias Schulze-Böing (Hrsg.) (2024): Gut beraten im Jobcenter? Beratungsqualität als Herausforderung für Führung und Praxis. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 353 S. DOI:10.5771/9783748951537
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"Gute Beratung ist ein zentraler Erfolgsfaktor der Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende nach dem SGB II (Bürgergeld). Veränderungen im Arbeitsmarkt, gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen und die Entwicklung des Rechts haben in den letzten Jahren die Praxis der Beratung in den Jobcentern vor neue Herausforderungen gestellt. Der Band beleuchtet mit Beiträgen von namhaften Experten aus Arbeitsmarktforschung, Beratungswissenschaft, Soziologie, Sozialer Arbeit, Rechtswissenschaft und Praxis, was gute Beratung ausmacht, wie Beratung in der Praxis ausgestaltet wird und wie sie weiterentwickelt werden kann. Besonderen Stellenwert haben dabei innovative Ansätze zur Verbesserung der Qualität und Wirksamkeit von Beratung in Jobcentern und verschiedene Konzepte der Qualitätsentwicklung." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Effectiveness of a three-component intervention supporting unemployed individuals with mental health issues in their job search and mental health recovery (3for1): study protocol of a non-randomized controlled study (2024)
Schlachter, Svenja ; Rüsch, Nicolas ; Junne, Florian ; Gündel, Harald ; Martus, Peter ; Nischk, Daniel ; Gralla, Maria ; von Wietersheim, Jörn ; Baxendale, Maximilian ; Pumptow, Marina; Erschens, Rebecca ; Adam, Sophia Helen ; Gantner, Melanie; Mehler, Miriam ;Zitatform
Schlachter, Svenja, Sophia Helen Adam, Maximilian Baxendale, Melanie Gantner, Maria Gralla, Florian Junne, Peter Martus, Miriam Mehler, Daniel Nischk, Marina Pumptow, Rebecca Erschens, Harald Gündel, Nicolas Rüsch & Jörn von Wietersheim (2024): Effectiveness of a three-component intervention supporting unemployed individuals with mental health issues in their job search and mental health recovery (3for1): study protocol of a non-randomized controlled study. In: BMC public health, Jg. 24, H. 1. DOI:10.1186/s12889-024-20323-0
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"Background: There is a vicious cycle between unemployment and mental health issues. Unemployed individuals with mental health issues require individualized support at multiple levels in order to promote their mental health, and obtain and retain employment. The 3for1-intervention program aims to provide such support with three components (short-term psychotherapy, job coaching based on the Individual Placement and Support approach, and peer support). This study protocol outlines how the effectiveness of this three-component intervention program in terms of re-employment, mental health, and psychosocial outcomes will be evaluated. Methods: The 3for1-intervention program will be evaluated with a non-randomized controlled trial design in a multi-center study. 500 eligible participants aged between 18 and 60 years from six job centers in Southern Germany will be allocated to a control group or an intervention group. Allocation is time-based, with the control group being recruited first, followed by recruitment of the intervention group. The control group will receive treatment as usual, whereas the intervention group will receive treatment as usual as well as access to the three intervention components over a period of 12 months. Assessment will be conducted at baseline (t0), and 12 (t1) and 18 (t3) months later. The primary outcome will be the proportion of participants who are in employment subject to social insurance contributions at t1. Differences between control and intervention group will be tested with logistic regression analysis, controlling for relevant covariates. Analyses of secondary outcomes will relate to group differences regarding re-employment, health and well-being, social integration, help-seeking, and self-stigma at t1 and t2, applying logistic regression analysis or analysis of covariance. Additionally, usage of health services will be measured to evaluate the intervention program’s cost effectiveness. Discussion: The 3for1-intervention aims to improve employability and mental health outcomes of a vulnerable population with high need for assistance. Improvements for this population would benefit the German welfare state as well. This study could provide valuable insights into the feasibility, implementation, and sustainability of this individualized, multi-level support program within German job centers. Trial registration: This trial is registered with the German Clinical Trials Register: DRKS00029002 (registered on 11 May 2022)." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Arbeitsmarkt: Vieles gleich, aber alles anders (2024)
Schäfer, Holger;Zitatform
Schäfer, Holger (2024): Arbeitsmarkt: Vieles gleich, aber alles anders. In: IW-Trends, Jg. 51, H. 1, S. 51-57. DOI:10.2373/1864-810X.24-01-07
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"Die in den 1950er Jahren infolge der Kriegsschäden und Einwanderung Vertriebener nach Westdeutschland noch hohe Arbeitslosigkeit (Braun/Weber, 2016) glaubte man überwunden. Die Arbeitslosenquote lag im Zeitraum 1960 bis 1973 nur einmal – im Jahr 1967 infolge einer leichten Rezession – kurzzeitig über 2 Prozent der abhängigen zivilen Erwerbspersonen. Dies änderte sich in den Jahren 1974 und 1975 deutlich, als im Zuge des Ölpreisschocks das Bruttoinlandsprodukt zunächst nur schwach zunahm und dann sogar recht deutlich zurückging. In dieser Phase stieg die Arbeitslosenquote auf 4 bis 5 Prozent (Abbildung 1). Dieser Anstieg war Ausgangspunkt einer langen Arbeitsmarktkrise, die bis zum Jahr 2005 andauerte." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)
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