%0 Report
        %A Bernhard, Sarah
%A Gartner, Hermann
%A Stephan, Gesine
        %T Wage Subsidies for Needy Job-Seekers and Their Effect on Individual Labour Market Outcomes after the German Reforms
        %D 2008
        %8 2008 Oct
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 3772
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp3772
        %X Our paper estimates the average effect of wage subsidies – paid to employers for a limited period of time – on the labour market prospects of needy job-seekers without access to insurance-paid 'unemployment benefit I'. The results show that wage subsidies had large and significant favourable effects: 20 months after taking up a subsidised job, the share of persons in regular employment is nearly 40 percentage points higher across participants. On the whole, groups with particular placement difficulties benefit comparatively more from subsidisation.
        %K wage subsidies
%K unemployment benefits II for needy job-seekers
%K evaluation of active labour market programmes
%K propensity score matching