Do German welfare-to-work programmes reduce welfare and increase work?

Autor/inn/en	Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny; Walter, Thomas
Titel	Do German welfare-to-work programmes reduce welfare and increase work? Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Reduzieren deutsche Welfare-to-Work-Programme die Abhängigkeit von Sozialhilfe und fördern sie die Erwerbstätigkeit?
Quelle	In: German economic review, 12 (2011) 2, S. 182-204 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1465-6485; 1468-0475
DOI	10.1111/j.1468-0475.2010.00515.x
Schlagwörter	Erfolgskontrolle; Aktivierung; Hartz-Reform; Arbeitsmarktpolitik; Weiterbildungsförderung; Trainingsmaßnahme; Sozialhilfeempfänger
Abstract	"During the last decade, many Western economies reformed their welfare systems with the aim of activating welfare recipients by increasing welfare-to-work programmes (WTWP) and job-search enforcement. We evaluate the short-term effects of three important German WTWP implemented after a major reform in January 2005 ('Hartz IV'), namely short training, further training with a planned duration of up to three months and public workfare programmes ('One-Euro-Jobs'). Our analysis is based on a combination of a large-scale survey and administrative data that is rich with respect to individual, household, agency level and regional information. We use this richness of the data to base the econometric evaluation on a selection-on-observables approach. We find that short-term training programmes, on average, increase their participants' employment perspectives. There is also considerable effect heterogeneity across different subgroups of participants that could be exploited to improve the allocation of welfare recipients to the specific programmes and thus increase overall programme effectiveness." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: Evaluation; anwendungsorientiert; empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 2005 bis 2007. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2011/3