Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/145523
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2016: Demographischer Wandel - Session: Labor: Sanctions No. C20-V2
Publisher: 
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel und Hamburg
Abstract: 
The German workfare scheme ‘One-Euro-Jobs’ that provides additional jobs of public interest for welfare recipients has a number of different goals. One the one hand, One-Euro-Jobs are intended to increase the participants’ employment prospects in the medium term. On the other hand, they can be used to test welfare recipients’ willingness to work. Using survey data from the Panel Study “Labour Market and Social Security” and propensity score matching methods, we study the effect of receiving a One-Euro-Job announcement on job search behaviour, reservation wage and labour market performance of welfare recipients. We find that receiving a One-Euro-Job announcement increases job search activities and decreases the reservation wage significantly, whereas no effects on the short-term employment probability can be found.
JEL: 
J64
J68
I38
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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