How do the employment effects of job creation schemes differ with respect to the foregoing unemployment duration?

verfasst von

Reinhard Hujer, Stephan L. Thomsen

Abstract

Based on new administrative data for Germany covering entrances into job creation schemes between July 2000 and May 2001, we evaluate the effects of this active labour market policy programme considering the timing of treatment in the individual unemployment spell. Applying propensity score matching in a dynamic setting where the time until treatment in the unemployment spell is stratified into quarters, regional (East and West Germany) as well as gender differences are considered in the estimation. The results in terms of employment present a heterogeneous, but disappointing picture. For West Germany, most of the estimates are insignificant at the end of the observation period, and only one positive exception could be established. In East Germany, none of the groups experiences an improvement of the labour market situation, but the employment chances tend to be reduced due to participation even 30 months after start of programmes.

Externe Organisation(en)

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH (ZEW) Mannheim

Typ

Artikel

Journal

Labour economics

Band

17

Seiten

38-51

Anzahl der Seiten

14

ISSN

0927-5371

Publikationsdatum

15.07.2009

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Volkswirtschaftslehre und Ökonometrie, Organisationslehre und Personalmanagement

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

SDG 8 – Anständige Arbeitsbedingungen und wirtschaftliches Wachstum

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2009.07.001 (Zugang: Geschlossen)
https://ub-madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/1371/1/dp06047.pdf (Zugang: Offen)