Municipal labor market policy - Marshalling yard or escape from public assistance dependency?
Hilmar Schneider
Wirtschaft im Wandel,
No. 11,
2001
Abstract
Due to an increasing fiscal burden by welfare payments, municipalities tend
more and more to initiate employment and training programs under their own
responsibility besides the Federal Labor Agency. However, critics object
that this might predominantly be viewed as an attempt to shift fiscal
burdens to the Federal Labor Agency rather than a policy option towards
labor market integration of low-wage workers. In order to investigate this
issue, the IWH carried out a country-wide survey within twelve
municipalities and rural districts. The sample comprises 200 employable
welfare recipients, among them participants of labor market programs as well
as a reference group of non-participants. The results of the IWH welfare
survey are at best suggesting a moderate success of program participation
with regard to labor market integration. Nevertheless, the programs appear
to be profitable for municipalities, since they succeed in bringing
participants out of welfare dependency. In many cases, however, welfare is
replaced by unemployment support, which means that only the fiscal
responsibility changes. A shortcoming of the results has to be seen in the
fact that municipalities tend to assign especially those people for program
participation, who are already better fitting into requirements of the labor
market. This seriously impairs the comparability of participants and
non-participants. In view of the remarkable amount of expenditures it seems
therefore advisable to put more attention on the effectiveness of the
programs than has been done in the past. This could be achieved by a
stronger orientation towards an experimental design of assignment for
program participation.
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East German construction industry June 2001: Early slump in companies' business expectations
Brigitte Loose
Wirtschaft im Wandel,
No. 10,
2001
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The economic situation and development in the East German construction industry – a company specific empirical analysis based on the IWH Construction Industry Surveys and the IAB company panel
Brigitte Loose
IWH Discussion Papers,
No. 136,
2001
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Industry Surveys 2000: Documentation of main results
Bärbel Laschke, Udo Ludwig
IWH Discussion Papers,
No. 140,
2001
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IWH Industry Survey May 2001
Bärbel Laschke
Wirtschaft im Wandel,
No. 9,
2001
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IWH Construction Industry Survey April 2001: Spring upswing starts from lower level
Brigitte Loose
Wirtschaft im Wandel,
No. 7,
2001
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IWH Industry Survey March 2001
Bärbel Laschke, Udo Ludwig
Wirtschaft im Wandel,
No. 6,
2001
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IWH Construction Industry Survey February 2001
Brigitte Loose
Wirtschaft im Wandel,
No. 4,
2001
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IWH Construction Industry Survey December 2001
Brigitte Loose
Wirtschaft im Wandel,
No. 1,
2001
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IWH Industry Survey November 2000
Bärbel Laschke
Wirtschaft im Wandel,
No. 16,
2000
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