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| Title: | | Give them a break! Did activation of young welfare recipients overshoot in Germany? (A regression discontinuity analysis)  |
| Authors: | | Wolff, Joachim Nivorozhkin, Anton |
| Issue Date: | | 2012 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2012: Neue Wege und Herausforderungen für den Arbeitsmarkt des 21. Jahrhunderts - Session: Labor Market Policy Evaluation B08-V1 |
| 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. |
| JEL: | | C13 I38 J68 |
| Document Type: | | Conference Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2012 (Göttingen): Neue Wege und Herausforderungen für den Arbeitsmarkt des 21. Jh.
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