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dc.contributor.author | Wolff, Joachim | en |
dc.contributor.author | Nivorozhkin, Anton | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-09-04T08:15:22Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2012-09-04T08:15:22Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/62046 | - |
dc.description.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. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft |xKiel und Hamburg | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aBeiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2012: Neue Wege und Herausforderungen für den Arbeitsmarkt des 21. Jahrhunderts - Session: Labor Market Policy Evaluation |xB08-V1 | en |
dc.subject.jel | C13 | en |
dc.subject.jel | I38 | en |
dc.subject.jel | J68 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.title | Give them a break! Did activation of young welfare recipients overshoot in Germany? (A regression discontinuity analysis) | - |
dc.type | Conference Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 731304233 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
dc.identifier.repec | RePEc:zbw:vfsc12:62046 | en |
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