IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3161

Labor Market Policies and Outcomes: Cross Country Evidence for the EU-27

Riccardo Rovelli, Randolph Luca Bruno

substantially revised and rewritten version available as IZA DP No. 3502

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3149

Unemployed and Their Caseworkers: Should They Be Friends or Foes?

Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich, Michael Lechner

published in: Journal of Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2010, 173 (1), 67-92

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3141

Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts and Collective Wage Determination

Laszlo Goerke

published as 'The Effects of Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts in the Presence of Collective Bargaining Contracts' in: W. Franz, H.-J. Ramser, M. Stadler (Hrsg.), Arbeitsverträge – Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Seminar Ottobeuren, Tübingen, 2008, 37, 199-226

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3114

Die reformierte Gründungsförderung für Arbeitslose: Chancen und Risiken

Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos

published in: Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 2009, 10(2), 189-213

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3113

Temporary Help Agencies and the Advancement Prospects of Low Earners

Fredrik W. Andersson, Harry J. Holzer, Julia Lane

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3092

Does the Order and Timing of Active Labor Market Programs Matter?

Michael Lechner, Stephan Wiehler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3085

Targeting Labour Market Programmes: Results from a Randomized Experiment

Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich, Michael Lechner

published in: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik / Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 145 (3), 221-268

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3051

What Works Best for Getting the Unemployed Back to Work: Employment Services or Small-Business Assistance Programmes? Evidence from Romania

Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published as 'Channels Through Which Public Employment Services and Small-Business Assistance Programs Work' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (4), 458-485

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3005

Public Employment Services and Employers: How Important Are Networks with Firms?

Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich, Michael Lechner

published in: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 2008, 1, 151-178

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2957

On the Optimality of a Minimum Wage: New Insights from Optimal Tax Theory

Mathias Hungerbühler, Etienne Lehmann

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (3-4), 464-481

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2926

Earnings Effects of Training Programs

Michael Lechner, Blaise Melly

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2885

Which Program for Whom? Evidence on the Comparative Effectiveness of Public Sponsored Training Programs in Germany

Martin Biewen, Bernd Fitzenberger, Aderonke Osikominu, Marie Waller

substantially revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (4), 837-897

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2877

Unemployment Insurance in Welfare States: Soft Constraints and Mild Sanctions

Knut Røed, Lars Westlie

published as 'Unemployment Insurance in Welfare States: The Impacts of Soft Duration Constraints' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (3), 518-554

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2854

Is the Notification of Monitoring a Threat to the Unemployed? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Bart Cockx, Muriel Dejemeppe

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2835

Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies

Alessio J. G. Brown, Christian Merkl, Dennis J. Snower

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (2), 168-179

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2800

What Did All the Money Do? On the General Ineffectiveness of Recent West German Labour Market Programmes

Conny Wunsch, Michael Lechner

published in: Kyklos, 2008, 61 (1), 134-174

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2740