Basic Income Support and Activation
Department
Research Department C2
Research task
Our research is concerned with activation policies for means-tested unemployment benefit (II) recipients. Moreover, we study whether activation policies effectively integrate unemployment benefit II recipients into the labour market and contribute to reducing or ending their dependency on the means-tested benefit. We analyse whether the net impacts of labour market programme participation differ considerably among specific target groups (e.g., old versus young, long-term versus short-term non-employed). Hence our results contribute to the discussion on which programmes should be allocated to which type of target group. The policies that we regard are on the one hand active labour market programmes like short-term training or work opportunities. On the other hand, we quantify the net impacts of integration contracts as well as of benefit sanctions on the labour market performance of the treated. Apart from these micro-analyses, we will study together with the Research Department Regional Labour Markets whether there are impacts of activation policies on the macro-level, e.g., on the job-seeker rate. Further future research will be concerned with the effects of changes in the generosity of unemployment benefit on unemployment duration.
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