@inproceedings{Wolff2012Give,
abstract = {In Germany, due to special rules 15- to 24-year-old welfare recipients, registered with Public Employment Office, are highly targeted by mandatory activation policies. This paper investigates the effects of the special rules in terms of enhancing the (re-)employment probability, increasing earnings and reducing benefit dependency of targeted people in East and West Germany in the short- and the long-run. Using registry dataset of the inflow into unemployment and welfare over the period October 2005 to January 2006 the paper exploits the age related eligibility rule to identify a suitable counterfactual using a regression discontinuity design. Our estimates imply zero or negative effects of targeting for selected population subgroups. A possible explanation to our finding is that an excessive targeting of young welfare recipients by active labour market programmes may lead to a low quality matches between programmes and participants.},
author = {Joachim Wolff and Anton Nivorozhkin},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {C13; I38; J68; 330},
language = {eng},
number = {B08-V1},
publisher = {ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek f\"{u}r Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft},
series = {Beitr\"{a}ge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins f\"{u}r Socialpolitik 2012: Neue Wege und Herausforderungen f\"{u}r den Arbeitsmarkt des 21. Jahrhunderts - Session: Labor Market Policy Evaluation},
title = {Give them a break! Did activation of young welfare recipients overshoot in Germany? (A regression discontinuity analysis)},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/62046},
year = {2012}
}
