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| Research area: The efficiency and effectiveness of labour market policy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The primary concern in this research area is the effectiveness of labour market
policy. On the one hand, the research unit is continuing the tradition of
combining aggregated effects analyses, qualitative implementation studies and
various methods of benchmarking at regional and national level. On the other
hand, it is adding to the contributions of micro-sociological and microeconomic
causal models on the effectiveness of labour market policy with regard to
long-term career paths. The hypothesis underpinning the research is that labour
market policy is all the more effective and efficient the more its
implementation is based on clear target management at central level and
decentralised operational responsibility. In detail, the following questions are
being addressed. How and with what degree of success is the Hartz plan for
reform of the Federal Labour Office being implemented? This applies particularly
to the acceleration of job placement by means of job centres, personnel services
agencies and systematic benchmarking. What are the relevant success criteria for
monitoring and controlling? How are learning processes successfully initiated
among workers, employment agencies, service providers and regions? How do
different ways of organising unemployment insurance, continuing training
measures, dismissal protection, parental leave arrangements and the public
childcare infrastructure affect households’ employment decisions and
individuals’ long-term career paths? Where do the cognitive and institutional
barriers to a future-oriented reform of labour market policy lie? What can we
learn from the organisational reforms (new governance models, privatisation and
contract management) other countries have introduced?
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● Evaluation of the measures taken to implement the
Hartz Commission’s proposals as part of Work Package 1: Effectiveness of the
instruments - Module 1a: The reorientation of job placement services Project
management: Hugh Mosley,
Günther Schmid Duration: 2004-2006 The purpose of the project is to evaluate the reorientation of job placement services in Germany, which began in 2002. This reform of job placement services includes both the changes introduced by the so-called Hartz legislation and sub-statutory changes brought about by internal reforms within the Federal Labour Agency. Efforts will be made in the course of the research to consider the individual elements of the reforms not in isolation but rather in their interactions with each other. The central question is whether the reforms are helping to improve the quality of job placement processes and their effects. A complex study design made up of business data analysis, microeconomic effects analyses and quantitative and qualitative implementation analysis covers the many and various aspects of the research problematic. English summary of the interim report of June 2005 > Download PDF (70kb) Detailed information on the project and on the final report (in German only) > Project information
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● History of labour market policy in Germany 1945 to
1994 Project managment: Günther Schmid, Frank Oschmiansky Duration: All the research unit’s contributions have an introductory section that lays down the theoretical foundations for the individual aspects of unemployment insurance and labour market policy (Volume 2: Principles of Policy Research, Efficiency and Equality; Volume 3: The Goals and Effects System in Labour Market Policy; Volume 4: Wage and Vocational Training Policy; Volume 5: ‘Active’ Labour Market Policy; Volume 6: Segmentation Theories; Volume 7: Decision theories; Volume 11: The Financing of Labour Market Policy). All the contributions also contain an historically descriptive and analytical section as well as a document collection consisting largely of previously unpublished material. Since the notion of ‘path dependency’ plays a central role, in the research unit’s approach to research, the historical foundations of labour market policy represent an indispensable element of our research. |
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● Benchmarking of labour market policy and the
influence of differences in regional economic and skill structures Dissertation project: Christoph Hilbert Against the background of globalisation, regional competitiveness is gaining in importance. From an academic perspective, Krugman’s study ‘Geography and Trade’ (1991) can be regarded as the starting point for analysis in virtually all economic and political spheres. Labour market policy is a significant aspect of regional economic development. In this theoretical and empirical context, the aim of the project is to measure the influence of regional structural and labour market conditions and its significance for the benchmarking of regional employment agencies. The project is divided into two parts. In the first part, a micro-level perspective is adopted in order to analyse aspects of the regional skill structure and its influence on regional wage levels, with the notion of the wage curve forming the theoretical basis for the analysis. The second part focuses on quantitative concepts for the benchmarking of regional employment agencies. The analysis is based on the Swiss implementation of a model that has its origins in principal agent theory. Empirical tests using various datasets will be carried out in order to examine the theoretical applicability of such models, the technical preconditions for their use and the possibilities they offer, as well as any limitations they might have.
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● Implementation of job placement services:
An empirical analysis, with particular reference to the reform of the Federal
Labour Agency Dissertation project: Holger Schütz |
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● Evaluation of job placement services in the labour
market, with particular reference to temporary work Dissertation project: Silke Gülker |
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