Do active labor market policies for welfare recipients in Germany raise their regional outflow into work?

Wapler, Rüdiger; Wolf, Katja; Wolff, Joachim

doi:10.1016/j.jpolmod.2022.05.006

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“…On the other hand, policy outcomes – such as employment growth and social inclusion – are affected by contextual socio-economic conditions (Garritzmann et al, 2022; Kazepov and Ranci, 2017) that also point to specific regional traits. These claims are backed by country-based quantitative and institutional analysis, as well as small-n comparisons of subnational territories that confirm the existence of territorially differentiated effects of ALMPs, according to regional education and labour market systems in Austria (Bacher et al, 2017), local labour market conditions in Germany (Wapler et al, 2022), socio-economic regional divides in Italy (Sergi et al, 2018). This evidence points towards the claim that functional systems have a territorial reach and, at the same time, are moulded by spatial contexts (Keating, 2021a; Sykes, 2008).…”

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What, for whom, and under what circumstances: Do activation policies increase youth employment in the EU?

Cefalo,

Scandurra

2023

Journal of European Social Policy

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Activation measures have assumed a prominent role within policy perspectives aimed at increasing labour market participation to support welfare sustainability. Most comparative studies on active labour market policies (ALMPs) have been conducted at the national level, although several scholars recently stressed the need to consider more carefully the territorial dimension of social policies. This article addresses this research gap by providing quantitative estimates of the territorial effect of national ALMPs provision on youth employment in European regions. We find that regional contextual traits, which can present a variety of configurations, play a significant role in moderating the effects of ALMPs. Divergent outcomes per type and level of education also highlight the complexity of the landscape for ALMPs’ design and implementation. Our analysis helps identify the institutional and contextual conditions that require evaluation when designing and implementing policies targeting young people.

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What, for whom, and under what circumstances: Do activation policies increase youth employment in the EU?

Cefalo,

Scandurra

2023

Journal of European Social Policy

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Gender-Responsive Regional Fiscal Policies: The Labour Market

Culotta

2023

Social Indicators Research Series

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The labour market allows individuals to earn a living throughout their lifetime. When it comes to gendered issues, the labour market is also an environment where different outcomes between female and male workers emerge. Differences between women and men naturally exist because of the biological characteristics related to sex differences. The possibilities of maternity and longevity are the most notable examples. Compared with men, women also have less physical power. In fact, the origin of the gender gap in the labour market goes back to the ‘male breadwinner’ model, typical of an industrial economy, in which women’s role was traditionally limited to homemaking activities (Fortin, 2005; Lewis et al., 2008). Physical skills are relevant to the labour supply for an industrial economy.

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Help or harm? Examining the effects of active labour market programmes on young adults’ employment quality and the role of social origin

Knize,

Wolf

2024

Journal of European Social Policy

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Active labour market programmes (ALMPs) should help young adults who collect welfare benefits ‘get back on track’. Despite the recent proliferation of research on ALMPs, only scant attention has been paid to their employment quality effects. Aiming to fill this gap, this article evaluates the long-term effects of German ALMPs on young adults’ employment quality. We measure employment quality with two indicators: one on whether someone has a job with earnings below the low wage threshold and the other on whether they have a job with earnings above the low wage threshold. These measures help us assess whether ALMPs prevent young adults from being at risk of poverty again. In addition, we study whether ALMP effects vary by social origin. We distinguish young adults by whether their families collected benefits when they were adolescents, as a marker for disadvantaged social origin. We analyse in-firm training and one-euro jobs as examples for enabling and workfare programmes, which exist across other welfare states as well. Empirically, we apply an entropy balancing approach to a self-drawn sample from registry data to analyse ALMP treatment effects. Results show that in-firm training enhances young adults’ employment quality in the long run. The effects tend to be lower for those from disadvantaged families though, indicating that disadvantages embedded in social origin remain. The workfare programme harms participants’ employment quality, with those less disadvantaged suffering the greatest damage. Overall, our research provides evidence that in-firm training effectively enables young adults to find a job of higher quality, addressing their risk of social exclusion and proving useful in promoting upward social mobility. Nonetheless, the article also raises urgent issues concerning how the needs of those most vulnerable can be addressed by social policy.

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Do active labor market policies for welfare recipients in Germany raise their regional outflow into work?

Cited by 4 publications

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What, for whom, and under what circumstances: Do activation policies increase youth employment in the EU?

What, for whom, and under what circumstances: Do activation policies increase youth employment in the EU?

Gender-Responsive Regional Fiscal Policies: The Labour Market

Help or harm? Examining the effects of active labour market programmes on young adults’ employment quality and the role of social origin

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