The effects of active labour market policies for immigrants receiving social assistance in Denmark

Arbeitspapier

We estimate the effect of active labour market programmes on the exit rate to regular employment for non-western immigrants in Denmark who receive social assistance. We use the timing-of-events duration model and rich administrative data. We find large positive post-programme effects, and, surprisingly, even most in-programme effects are positive. The effects are largest for subsidized employment programmes, but effects are also large and significant for direct employment programmes and other programmes. The effects are larger if programmes begin after six months of unemployment. Implications of our estimates are illustrated by calculating effects on the duration to regular employment over a five-year period.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 5632

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies: Public Policy ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Duration Analysis; Optimal Timing Strategies
• Thema: programme evaluation ; duration analysis ; timing-of-events model ; Arbeitsmarktpolitik ; Migranten ; Sozialhilfeempfänger ; Wirkungsanalyse ; Berufliche Integration ; Statistische Bestandsanalyse ; Dänemark

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Heinesen, Eskil ; Husted, Leif ; Rosholm, Michael
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2011

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/51701
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-201104134355
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ