Ein-Euro-Jobs und reguläre Beschäftigung / One-Euro-Jobs and Regular Employment: Eine Analyse potenzieller Substitutionseffekte mit Daten des IAB-Betriebspanels / An Analysis of Potential Substitution Effects Using the IAB Establishment Panel

Hohendanner Christian ()
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Hohendanner Christian: Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Forschungsbereich ,Betriebe und Beschäftigung‘, Regensburger Straße 104, 90478 Nürnberg, Germany

Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), 2011, vol. 231, issue 2, 210-246

Abstract: The most widespread active labour market program in Germany is the so-called ‘One-Euro- Job’. Participants carry out social activities like caring for the elderly, city cleaning or environmental activities. The principal objective is to improve or maintain the employability of hard-to-place unemployed. However, there is a certain risk of within-firm substitution of regular employees by One-Euro-Job participants. The aim of the study is to identify such substitution effects in participating establishments. For this purpose I present some descriptive results from the survey ‘Experience with One-Euro-Jobs’. In a further step I use data from the IAB Establishment Panel 2004 to 2007 to identify substitution effects. To account for selectivity, I apply a difference-in-difference approach and propensity score matching. The empirical results indicate that regular employment relationships are not substituted by One-Euro-Jobs. This holds for West as well as for East Germany. However, the identification of within-firm substitution in the matching procedure requires that the program has no employment effect on the control group. Otherwise, substitution effects cannot be identified. For this reason, I provide evidence for potential displacement effects in the control group using a fixed-effects panel model. The results indicate that the control group is not affected by the program.

Keywords: One-Euro-Jobs; active labour market policy; substitution; displacement; IAB-establishment panel; difference-in-difference; propensity score matching; One-Euro-Jobs; active labour market policy; substitution; displacement; IAB-establishment panel; difference-in-difference; propensity score matching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1515/jbnst-2011-0203

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