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Veranstaltungsreihe: IAB-Colloquium

Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler die Ergebnisse ihrer Forschungsarbeit vor und diskutieren diese mit Expertinnen und Experten aus dem IAB. Auch Interessierte aus Arbeitsverwaltung, Politik und Praxis sind willkommen.

We investigate how negatively reciprocal traits of unemployed individuals interact with “sticks" policies imposing constraints on individual job search effort in the context of the German welfare system. For this we merge survey data of long-term unemployed individuals, containing indicators of reciprocity as a personality trait, to a unique set of register data on all unemployed coached by the same team of caseworkers and their treatments. We find that the combination of a higher negative reciprocity and a stricter regime have a negative interaction effect on search effort exerted by the unemployed. The results are stronger for males than for females. Stricter regimes may therefore drive long-term unemployed males with certain types of social preferences further away from the labor market.

Unemployment insurance systems in modern labor markets are riddled with a multitude of rules and regulations governing job seekers' economic situation and their incentives to search for employment. These include, for instance, detailed regulations specifying individuals' benefit level and potential benefit duration, job search requirements, conditions for avoiding benefit sanctions, possibilities for earning extra income or additional benefit entitlements by working in part-time or short-term jobs, etc. The complexity of UI systems makes it challenging for job seekers to understand the prevailing rules, their built-in incentives, and the resulting consequences for their personal economic situation. This is potentially problematic, as a lack of understanding may distort individuals' job search incentives and employment prospects.

In this paper, we report the results from a randomized controlled trial among the universe of registered Danish job seekers that studies how reducing complexity affects individuals' understanding of UI benefit rules and labor market behavior. Our intervention exploits an online information tool that provides individuals with continuously updated, personalized information on their remaining UI benefit period, their accumulated working time that can be used to prolong the potential benefit duration, as well as information on essential rules regarding job seekers' benefit duration and benefit sanctions. We match the data from our experiment with data from an online survey and rich information from administrative records to evaluate the causal effects of our intervention on individuals' understanding of the prevailing labor market rules, their job search behavior, and resulting labor market outcomes.

I will talk a bit on how we use machine learning in general in the area of labour market policy in DK, and how we relate this to our core business of producing results on employment and education.
As a specific example of our work, I will illustrate our statistical profiling of newly unemployed, both the technical/methodological side as well as the practical implementation and general experiences in this area, and some thoughts on further development.
Finally I will talk a bit on other more recent areas of developing datadriven solutions in the field of labour market policy, drawing perspectives to new possibilities deriving from machine-learning and modern Technology.

In the light of global megatrends such as ageing, globalisation, technological transformation and climate change, the 2019 ESDE is dedicated to sustainability.

One of the major sustainability challenges is sluggish productivity growth despite accelerating technological change and the increasing qualification levels of the EU labour force. We explore the preconditions for sustained economic growth, based on region-level and firm-level data analysis, focusing on complementarities between efficiency, innovation, human capital, job quality, fairness and working conditions. We identify policies that could boost productivity without increasing inequality.

We examine the impact of climate action on the economy and on employment, income and skills. In the light of EU welfare losses from climate inaction, we examine the sectors in which employment and value generation are taking place in the EU economy, estimate the overall impact of climate action in EU Member States, following a full implementation of the Paris agreement, on GDP and employment, as well as its potential impact on job polarisation.

Our main conclusion is that tackling climate change and preserving growth go hand in hand. We highlight a number of policy options to preserve the EU's competitiveness, sustain growth and spread its benefits to the entire EU population, while pursuing an ambitious transition to a climate-neutral economy.

Recent studies have proposed causal machine learning (CML) methods to estimate conditional average treatment effects (CATEs). In this study, I investigate whether CML methods add value compared to conventional CATE estimators by re-evaluating Connecticut’s Jobs First welfare experiment. This experiment entails a mix of positive and negative work incentives. Previous studies show that it is hard to tackle the effect heterogeneity of Jobs First by means of CATEs. I report evidence that CML methods can provide support for the theoretical labor supply predictions. Furthermore, I document reasons why some conventional CATE estimators fail and discuss the limitations of CML methods.

The presentation is about the nature and how to clean errors in occupational coding in order to measure patterns of occupational mobility (US, UK and Canada). Furthermore it is shed light on how occupational mobility matters for cyclical earnings inequality (based on Carrillo-Tudela, Visschers and Wiczer, 2019), unemployment and its duration distribution (based on Carrillo-Tudela and Visschers, 2019) and cleansing and sullying effects of the business cycle (based on Carrillo-Tudela, Sumerfield and Visschers, 2019).

Starting with a comparison between the life-course approach and Bourdieu, the study focuses the relation between social origin and habitus on typical patterns of education- and employment trajectories. Therefore, it tries to provide a test of the social reproduction theory of Pierre Bourdieu using a subsample of longitudinal data from the adult cohort of the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS). Theoretically, we assume that the social class of one’s origin-family defines the process of socialization and hence the habitus of its members and is cumulative predictive for the generalizable patterns of educational- and employment sequences starting with school entry up to age 30. The individual or class-specific habitus as a “whole set of practices (or those of a whole set of agents produced by similar conditions)” (Bourdieu 1984:170) should hence correspond to differences in successful sequence-patterns, measured personality-traits and attitudes suggesting a stable class-specific realization of the habitus.

Das Beziehungs- und Familienpanel pairfam steht vor tiefgreifenden Veränderungen: Im Zuge der Fusion mit dem Generations and Gender Program (GGP) zur gemeinsamen Forschungsinfrastruktur FReDA (Family Research and Demographic Analysis) wird auch das Erhebungsdesign der Panelstudie umgestellt. Die bisherigen Face-to-face-Interviews wird ab 2021 eine Mixed-mode-Befragung ersetzen, in der die Befragten zwischen einem web-basierten Interview und einem Papierfragebogen entscheiden können. Diese Entscheidung zieht weitere Veränderungen im Design nach sich, etwa hinsichtlich Frageprogramm und Filterführung, Verwendung von Preloads und Event-History-Calendar bis hin zum zeitlichen Verlauf der Studie. Gerade in einer laufenden Studie ergibt sich hierdurch das Problem, dass Moduseffekte Längsschnittanalysen verzerren können. In diesem Vortrag werden methodische Herausforderungen eines derartigen Moduswechsels in einer laufenden Panelstudie sowie unsere Vorbereitungen und methodische Begleitung des Moduswechsels dargestellt.

Die Flüchtlings- und Asylpolitik der Europäischen Union steckt in einer Sackgasse. Die Lasten der Aufnahme von Schutzsuchenden aus den Krisenregionen in Europas Umfeld sind ungerecht verteilt. So verweigern einige Staaten die Aufnahme, indes andere durch Regelungen wie das Dublin-Abkommen mit einer großen Zahl von Flüchtlingen überfordert werden. Jedoch: Gerade dort, wo die größte Erfahrung in der Aufnahme und Integration besteht, sind neue und innovative Ansätze zu finden - nämlich in den Kommunen, europaweit. Die Arbeitsgruppe von Prof. Dr. Petra Bendel und anderen untersucht die Rolle von Städten und Städtenetzwerken in Europa. Als Politik-Empfehlung entwickelte sie neue Modelle der Finanzierung, der Partnerschaft und eines Matching-Systems, das die Erfahrungen und Interessen von Kommunen wie von Geflüchteten gleichermaßen ernst nimmt.

Ein moderner und nachhaltiger Sozialstaat braucht eine gesunde Mischung aus staatlicher Fürsorge und Eigenverantwortung. Die Hartz-Reformen versuchten, die richtige Mischung mit dem Prinzip des Förderns und Forderns in der Grundsicherung herzustellen. Zahlreiche Menschen sind seither nicht mehr länger auf staatliche Fürsorge angewiesen, sondern können wieder für sich selbst sorgen. Doch zeigen sich zunehmend auch Schwächen eines in die Jahre gekommenen Grundsicherungssystems, insbesondere an den Schnittstellen zwischen seinen unterschiedlichen Instrumenten. In dieser Arbeit wird eine neue Grundsicherungsarchitektur entwickelt, die das vorhandene Instrumentarium der Sozialpolitik besser nutzt und aufeinander abstimmt. Sie setzt dabei an einer ursachenorientierten Existenzsicherung an. Drei Eckpunkte charakterisieren das neue System.

  • Eine zu versteuernde Kindergrundsicherung, die Familien
    stärker als bislang unterstützt,
  • eine Wohnbedarfssicherung und
  • eine Regelbedarfssicherung für Erwerbsfähige.

Die neuen Grundsicherungsleistungen sind so miteinander verzahnt, dass die Schnittstellenprobleme nicht mehr auftreten und zugleich der Anreiz zur Selbsthilfe gegenüber dem jetzigen System deutlich gestärkt wird.