Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/216669 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal for Labour Market Research [ISSN:] 2510-5027 [Volume:] 52 [Issue:] 11 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2018 [Pages:] 1-23
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
The German workfare scheme "One-Euro-Jobs", which provides additional jobs of public interest for welfare recipients, has a number of different goals. On the one hand, One-Euro-Jobs are intended to increase the participants' employment prospects in the medium term. On the other hand, they can be used to test welfare recipients' willingness to work. We use survey data from the Panel Study 'Labour Market and Social Security' and propensity score matching methods to study the intention-to-treat effect of receiving a One-Euro-Job announcement on job search behaviour, reservation wage and labour market performance of welfare recipients. We find that receiving a One-Euro-Job announcement increases job search activities significantly and decreases the reservation wage for women and individuals who have been employed within the last 4 years, but does not affect the short-term employment probability.
Subjects: 
Activation
Employment
Intention-to-treat efect
Job search
Threat efect
Attraction efect
Propensity score matching
Welfare receipt
Workfare
JEL: 
I38
J64
J68
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Document Type: 
Article

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