Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51608 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5599
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract (Translated): 
We evaluate a pilot workfare project of a Berlin city community to integrate young people in social assistance into the labor market. Reference data are generated in collaboration with the German Employment Office. The participation effect is found to be positive and of relevant size, but not statistically significant. This indicates that selection biases detected in the allocation process of individuals to the program can be adjusted by econometric techniques, but only on the prize of reduced significance levels. Given the small sample sizes of pilot projects this calls for social experiments in controlled project designs.
Subjects: 
workfare
labor supply
evaluation
social experiments
JEL: 
J22
J64
H43
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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