Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33203 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 2067
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We report empirical evidence from the first field experiments to be conducted in Germany with program and control groups between 1999 and 2002. The evaluated program called Targeted Negative Income Tax (TNIT) is a time-restricted employee subsidy for means-tested welfare recipients. We focus on a unique data set on welfare recipients in Mannheim and estimate the treatment effect of TNIT on participation probability. The average treatment effect is significant and lies between 6.6 and 6.8 percentage points. Since January 1st, 2005, TNIT can be offered to all means-tested long-term unemployed people in Germany by public case managers.
Subjects: 
field experiments
labor market reform
negative income tax
employee subsidy
long-term unemployment
JEL: 
C93
I38
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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