Who is Targeted by One-Euro-Jobs? A Selectivity Analysis

Hohmeyer, Katrin; Kopf, Eva

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“…Female one‐euro job participants more frequently than male participants worked in sectors such as child or elderly care in 2007. In contrast, for males, the more dominant tasks during participation were infrastructure improvement and landscape conservation (Hohmeyer & Kopf, 2009). 9 Consequently, female participants could have more frequently gained specific work experience during their participation for which there is considerable labour demand.…”

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A fistful of euros: Is the German one‐euro job workfare scheme effective for participants?

Hohmeyer

Wolff

2011

Int J Soc Welfare

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Hohmeyer K, Wolff J. A fistful of euros: is the German one‐euro job workfare scheme effective for participants? Welfare reforms have constituted a major policy issue in many OECD countries in recent decades. In Germany, a major reform in 2005 emphasised the activation of welfare recipients and introduced a workfare programme –‘One‐Euro Jobs’– on a large scale. In the present study, the impact of one‐euro jobs on the employment prospects of different groups of participants was estimated. The analysis was conducted on a large sample of welfare recipients using propensity score matching. The sample of one‐euro job participants and other welfare recipients was drawn from administrative records comprising all those who started their participation in the programme in early 2005. Our results showed that participation slightly improved the medium‐term employment prospects for women but not for men. Participation reduced the employment rate of participants younger than 25 years but raised it for some of the older participant groups. In conclusion, one‐euro jobs are effective for participants who have been jobless for several years but ineffective for participants who were recently employed.

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“…Though according to Article 16d, Social Code II, they should target disadvantaged welfare recipients who cannot find a job. Nevertheless, specific hard‐to‐place groups of unemployed people were not targeted in 2005 (Hohmeyer & Kopf, 2009).…”

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Wolff

2011

Int J Soc Welfare

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“…These are young adults, unemployed individuals with placement barriers, persons with migration background and older unemployed. Again, recent research on the structure of participants does not find a focus on these groups in 2005, except for young unemployed under the age of 25 years, who by law have to be placed to employment, vocational training or a One-Euro-Job without delay (Hohmeyer/Kopf 2009, Wolff/Hohmeyer 2006. 3 The focus on younger unemployed persons can be found for 2005 to 2008.…”

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“…This at least partly conflicts with the idea that the programme should serve as a work-test. Hence, it is not surprising that in 2005 One-Euro-Jobs indeed are not targeted at those groups of unemployed people, who are hard to place (Hohmeyer/ Kopf 2009, Hohmeyer/Schöll/Wolff 2006, Wolff/Hohmeyer 2006. There may be several reasons for this: Cream skimming, the use of One-Euro-Jobs as a work test, the lack of suitable One-Euro-Jobs for hard-to-place benefit recipients or any combination of these causes.…”

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Effectiveness of One-Euro-Jobs: do programme characteristics matter?

Hohmeyer

2011

Applied Economics

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“…Despite being intended to act as a last resort of activation, there has been evidence from the early post-reform period in 2005 that the target groups of Temporary Extra Jobs are only reached partially when caseworkers assign the program (see, for example, Hohmeyer and Kopf, 2009). Based on our data covering the years 2006 and 2007, we observe a somewhat more precise targeting than has been described in the literature so far.…”

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Temporary Extra Jobs for Immigrants: Merging Lane to Employment or Dead‐End Road in Welfare?

Thomsen

Walter

2010

Labour

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Die Dis cus si on Pape rs die nen einer mög lichst schnel len Ver brei tung von neue ren For schungs arbei ten des ZEW. Die Bei trä ge lie gen in allei ni ger Ver ant wor tung der Auto ren und stel len nicht not wen di ger wei se die Mei nung des ZEW dar.Dis cus si on Papers are inten ded to make results of ZEW research prompt ly avai la ble to other eco no mists in order to encou ra ge dis cus si on and sug gesti ons for revi si ons. The aut hors are sole ly respon si ble for the con tents which do not neces sa ri ly repre sent the opi ni on of the ZEW.Download this ZEW Discussion Paper from our ftp server:ftp://ftp.zew.de/pub/zew-docs/dp/dp10027.pdf Non-technical summaryIn the context of a substantial welfare reform in 2005, a new employment program has been introduced in Germany, the so-called Temporary Extra Jobs. These jobs provide temporary work opportunities in the public sector for welfare recipients in order to maintain or enhance the employability of the participants and to improve the job chances for regular employment. While engaged, participants receive welfare benefits, and, in addition, for their efforts in the program, they are paid an hourly wage of between 1 and 2 Euro. Occupations in Temporary Extra Jobs have to be additional in nature, of value for society, and must not compete with regular jobs in the market. Despite being intended to act as a last resort of activation for the most disadvantaged welfare recipients, this function is hardly met. With more than 750,000 participants each year, the program is the most frequently used welfare-towork program in Germany.Within the population of welfare recipients in Germany, immigrants are clearly over-represented with a two thirds larger share than in the overall population. In 2006, more than 34 percent of all welfare recipients were immigrants while their corresponding share of the population was only about 19.5 percent. However, despite their over-representation in welfare, immigrants are not a specific priority group. For this reason, German welfare lacks integration plans for immigrants that are offered in other countries. Instead, immigrants are placed in the standard welfare-to-work programs that have been designed for all welfare recipients. Therefore, immigrants are also frequently placed in Temporary Extra Jobs, even though the use of the program in this group is somewhat less pronounced than in the group of native Germans.In this paper, we evaluate the effects of participating in a Temporary Extra Job on the chance of exiting welfare by taking up employment for immigrant welfare recipients. Since Germany's welfare-towork programs are not particularly designed for immigrants but for all welfare recipients, we contrast the findings to the effects for native Germans. In addition, we analyze potential differences in the effects between the two ethnic groups trying to illuminate the causes of these differences. For the empirical analysis we use an inflow sample into welfare in 2006 of about 160,000 observations with individual information obt...

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Who is Targeted by One-Euro-Jobs? A Selectivity Analysis

Cited by 19 publications

References 9 publications

A fistful of euros: Is the German one‐euro job workfare scheme effective for participants?

A fistful of euros: Is the German one‐euro job workfare scheme effective for participants?

Effectiveness of One-Euro-Jobs: do programme characteristics matter?

Temporary Extra Jobs for Immigrants: Merging Lane to Employment or Dead‐End Road in Welfare?

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