TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bernhard, Sarah
AU  - Gartner, Hermann
AU  - Stephan, Gesine
        TI  - Wage Subsidies for Needy Job-Seekers and Their Effect on Individual Labour Market Outcomes after the German Reforms
        PY  - 2008/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3772
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp3772
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - wage subsidies
KW  - unemployment benefits II for needy job-seekers
KW  - evaluation of active labour market programmes
KW  - propensity score matching
        ER  -