Coaching, Counseling, Case-Working: Do They Help the Older Unemployed Out of Benefit Receipt and Back Into the Labor Market?

Bernhard Boockmann; Tobias Brändle

doi:10.1111/geer.12174

Coaching, Counseling, Case-Working: Do They Help the Older Unemployed Out of Benefit Receipt and Back Into the Labor Market?

German Economic Review ◽

10.1111/geer.12174 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 20 (4) ◽

pp. e436-e468

Author(s):

Bernhard Boockmann ◽

Tobias Brändle

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Job Search ◽

Market Integration ◽

Large Scale ◽

Program Participation ◽

Welfare Benefit ◽

Market Effects ◽

Positive Effects ◽

Lock In ◽

The Unemployed

Abstract Intensified counseling, job search assistance and related policies have been found to be effective for labor market integration of the unemployed by a large number of studies, but the evidence for older and hard-to-place unemployed is more mixed. In this paper, we present key results for a large-scale active labor market program directed at the older unemployed in Germany. To identify the treatment effects, we exploit regional variation in program participation. We use a combination of different evaluation estimators to check the sensitivity of the results to selection, substitution and local labor market effects. We find positive effects of the program in the range of 5-10 percentage points on integration into unsubsidized employment. However, there are also substantial lock-in effects, such that program participants have a higher probability of remaining on public welfare benefit receipt for up to 1 year after commencing the program.

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Employment and Earnings Effects of Awarding Training Vouchers in Germany

ILR Review ◽

10.1177/0019793916660091 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 70 (3) ◽

pp. 767-812 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Annabelle Doerr ◽

Bernd Fitzenberger ◽

Thomas Kruppe ◽

Marie Paul ◽

Anthony Strittmatter

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Training Programs ◽

Program Participation ◽

Intensive Training ◽

Employment Effects ◽

Positive Effects ◽

Long Run ◽

Short Run ◽

Labor Market Success ◽

The Unemployed

Participation in intensive training programs for the unemployed in Germany is allocated by awarding training vouchers. Using rich administrative data for all vouchers and actual program participation, the authors provide first estimates of the short-run and long-run employment and earnings effects of receiving a training voucher award based on a selection-on-observables assumption. The results imply that, after the award, voucher recipients experience long periods of lower labor market success compared to had they not received training vouchers. Small positive employment effects and no gains in earnings were observed four to seven years after the receipt of the voucher award. In addition, the findings suggest stronger positive effects both for all low-skilled individuals who were awarded and redeemed a voucher and for low-skilled and medium-skilled individuals who chose to take degree courses than for higher-skilled recipients.

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Ethnicity, Job Search and Labor Market Reintegration of the Unemployed

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.1592869 ◽

2009 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Amelie Constant ◽

Martin Kahanec ◽

Ulf Rinne ◽

Klaus F. Zimmermann

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Job Search ◽

The Unemployed

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Health promotion and prevention among the unemployed: a systematic review

Health Promotion International ◽

10.1093/heapro/day069 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 34 (6) ◽

pp. 1078-1096 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Alfons Hollederer

Keyword(s):

Health Promotion ◽

Labor Market ◽

Market Integration ◽

Smoking Behavior ◽

Management Training ◽

Controlled Study ◽

Target Groups ◽

Unemployment And Health ◽

The Unemployed ◽

Over Time

Abstract The interactions between unemployment and health create a need for specific interventions for health promotion and prevention. This overview provides information on how health promotion for the unemployed has been approached with an analysis of controlled intervention studies between 1996 and 2016. The literature search consulted 11 international databases in medicine, social sciences and psychology. A total of 30 health interventions for the unemployed were identified, with 43 articles that included the effects of intervention. A controlled-study design was used in 14 studies. The health promotion measures were generally based on individual counselling, case management, training or group services. The overview demonstrates the breadth of variation in target groups and types of measures. Their result indicators for health and integration into the labor market vary substantially, as do the employment promotion effects. There is evidence of improved health and labor market integration for established approaches like the JOBS Program and JobFit. Effects are rather moderate or low in magnitude and the effect mechanisms often remain unclear. Effects weaken over time. While success is more common in the areas of health, physical activity, nutrition and stress relief, there was no impact on smoking behavior. A significant evolution can be observed in the quality and quantity of health promotion for the unemployed over time. There is a need for further research on the effectiveness and sustainability of interventions. Intervention strategies should be developed that take account of the diversity of the unemployed and their different needs.

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‘You Need to Know Someone Who Knows Someone’: International Students’ Job Search Experiences

Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies ◽

10.18291/njwls.v10i2.120817 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Rolle Alho

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

International Students ◽

Labor Markets ◽

Job Search ◽

Market Integration ◽

International Student ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Labor Market Integration ◽

Highly Educated ◽

Institutional Contexts

The article analyzes how 31 international students (IS) entered the Finnish labor market as they graduated from Finnish universities. Despite a growing interest in international student migration (ISM), there are few studies that analyze the firsthand experiences of IS as they seek to enter the receiving-country labor markets as they graduate. This article contributes to the topic by showing how the interviewees of this study managed to enter the receiving-country labor markets, which are embedded in national, cultural, and institutional contexts that require context-bound knowledge of particular recruitment patterns.The contribution of the article lies in (1) providing new insights on an understudied topic: IS’ experiences of finding jobs in the country of graduation, and, in (2) constructing a theoretical framework for analyzing IS’ job search in the countries ofgraduation. More broadly, the article contributes to the studies on highly educated migrants’ labor market integration by shedding light on the experiences in a Nordic setting.

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Labor market effects of a work-first policy for refugees

Journal of Population Economics ◽

10.1007/s00148-020-00808-z ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Jacob Nielsen Arendt

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Market Integration ◽

Language Training ◽

Capital Investments ◽

Market Effects ◽

Long Run ◽

Lower Treatment ◽

Human Capital Investments ◽

Work First ◽

Precarious Jobs

Abstract This study estimates the labor market effects of a work-first policy aimed at speeding up the labor market integration of refugees. The policy added new requirements for refugees to actively search for jobs and to participate in on-the-job training immediately upon arrival in the host country, Denmark. The requirements were added to an existing policy that emphasizes human capital investments in language training. The results show that the work-first policy speeded up entry into regular jobs for men, but they find work in precarious jobs with few hours. Long-run effects are uncertain since the policy crowds out language investments but raises enrollment in education. The policy had no or very small effects for women, which is partly explained by a lower treatment intensity for women.

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Unemployment Cycles

American Economic Journal Macroeconomics ◽

10.1257/mac.20180105 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 175-234 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jan Eeckhout ◽

Ilse Lindenlaub

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Job Search ◽

Multiple Equilibria ◽

Search Behavior ◽

Beveridge Curve ◽

Strategic Complementarity ◽

Exogenous Shocks ◽

Jobless Recovery ◽

The Unemployed

The labor market by itself can create cyclical outcomes, even in the absence of exogenous shocks. We propose a theory in which the search behavior of the employed has profound aggregate implications for the unemployed. There is a strategic complementarity between active on-the-job search and vacancy posting by firms, which leads to multiple equilibria: in the presence of sorting, active on-the-job search improves the quality of the pool of searchers. This encourages vacancy posting, which in turn makes costly on-thejob search more attractive—a self-fulfilling equilibrium. The model provides a rationale for the Jobless Recovery, the outward shift of the Beveridge curve during the boom and for pro-cyclical frictional wage dispersion. Central to the model’s mechanism is the fact that the employed crowd out the unemployed when on-the-job search picks up during recovery. We also illustrate this mechanism in a stylized calibration exercise. (JEL E24, E32, J63, J64)

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The Impact of Language Skills on Immigrants’ Labor Market Integration: A Brief Revision With a New Approach

The B E Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy ◽

10.1515/bejeap-2017-0280 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 18 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Eric Schuss

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Market Integration ◽

Language Skills ◽

New Approach ◽

Market Effects ◽

Cross Border ◽

Market Income ◽

Language Effects ◽

Part Time ◽

The Impact

Abstract I examine the impact of language skills on immigrants’ labor market performance by applying a new approach, which allows to estimate wage benefits attributed to initial language skills at arrival. By exploiting unique data, I isolate the endogenous part of current German skills and instrument current command by German proficiency measured retrospectively at the point in time of migration. This approach tackles the problem that labor market effects from current language skills are at risk to reflect merely the sum of a successful residence in Germany and only display growth effects. I find that a good command of German increases labor market income by 47.0% for males, while no significant language effects are detected for females. Further analyses illustrate that differences in language effects by gender can be attributed to selection into different occupations and part-time employments and that language operates complementary and enables cross-border transferability of human capital.

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Family job search and wealth: The added worker effect revisited

Quantitative Economics ◽

10.3982/qe1092 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 1431-1459 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

J. Ignacio García-Pérez ◽

Sílvio Rendon

Keyword(s):

Labor Market ◽

Job Search ◽

Wealth Accumulation ◽

Program Participation ◽

Women's Labor ◽

Added Worker Effect ◽

Job Separation ◽

Economic Downturns ◽

Household Members ◽

Job Finding

We propose and estimate a model of family job search and wealth accumulation with data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). This dataset reveals a very asymmetric labor market for household members who share that their job finding is stimulated by their partners' job separation. We uncover a job search‐theoretic basis for this added worker effect, which occurs mainly during economic downturns, but also by increased nonemployment transfers. Thus, our analysis shows that the policy goal of increasing nonemployment transfers to support a worker's job search is partially offset by the spouse's cross effect of decreased nonemployment and wages. The added worker effect is robust to having more children and more education in the household and does not just result as a composition of heterogeneous individuals. We also show that the interdependency between household members is understated if wealth and savings are not considered. Finally, we show that gender equality in the labor market not only improves women's labor market performance, but it also increases men's accepted wages and nonemployment rates.

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