Stefanie Behncke

Public Employment Services and Employers - How Important are Networks with Firms? (2008)

Stefanie Behncke, Markus Froelich, Michael Lechner

This paper examines whether contacts between caseworkers in public employment offices and employers impact on the reemployment chances of the unemployed they counsel. This analysis is made possible...

A CASEWORKER LIKE ME -DOES THE SIMILARITY BETWEEN UNEMPLOYED AND CASEWORKER INCREASE JOB PLACEMENTS? (2008)

Stefanie Behncke, Markus Froelich, Michael Lechner

This paper examines whether the chances of job placements improve if unemployed persons are counselled by caseworkers who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and...

A Caseworker Like Me: Does the Similarity between Unemployed and Caseworker Increase Job Placements? (2008)

Behncke, Stefanie, Frölich, Markus, Lechner, Michael

This paper examines whether the chances of job placements improve if unemployed persons are counselled by caseworkers who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and...

Unemployed and Their Caseworkers - Should They be Friends or Foes? (2007)

Stefanie Behncke, Markus Froelich, Michael Lechner

In many countries, caseworkers in a public employment office have the dual roles of counselling and monitoring unemployed persons. These roles often conflict with each other leading to important...

Targeting Labour Market Programmes - Results from A Randomised experiment (2007)

Stefanie Behncke, Markus Froelich, Michael Lechner

We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assist caseworkers in Swiss employment offices in choosing appropriate active labour market programmes for their...

Aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland und der Schweiz - eine Gegenüberstellung (2006)

Stefanie Behncke, Markus Froelich, Michael Lechner

Aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik in der Schweiz wird der deutschen gegenübergestellt. Beide Länder haben viele Gemeinsamkeiten bezüglich Zielsetzung, Instrumenten und institutionellen Reformen von...

Statistical Assistance for Programme Selection - For a Better Targeting of Active Labour Market Policies in Switzerland (2006)

Stefanie Behncke, Markus Froelich, Michael Lechner

In this paper the motivation and various concepts of statistical systems for assisting case workers in assigning unemployed persons to active labour market programmes (ALMP) are examined and the...

Statistical Assistance for Programme Selection - For a Better Targeting of Active Labour Market Policies in Switzerland

Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich, Michael Lechner

In this paper the motivation and various concepts of statistical systems for assisting case workers in assigning unemployed persons to active labour market programmes (ALMP) are examined and the...

Deutschland ist keine Basarökonomie

Gustav A. Horn, Stefanie Behncke

In jüngster Zeit wird vielfach die These aufgestellt, dass sich Deutschland von einer Industrieökonomie zu einer so genannten Basarökonomie wandele, in der Güter verschiedenster Provenienz...

Unemployed and Their Caseworkers: Should They Be Friends or Foes?

Behncke, Stefanie, Frölich, Markus, Lechner, Michael

In many countries, caseworkers in a public employment office have the dual roles of counselling and monitoring unemployed persons. These roles often conflict with each other leading to important...

Unemployed and Their Caseworkers: Should They Be Friends or Foes?

Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich, Michael Lechner

In many countries, caseworkers in a public employment office have the dual roles of counselling and monitoring unemployed persons. These roles often conflict with each other leading to important...

A Caseworker Like Me - Does the Similarity between unemployed and Caseworker Increase Job Placements?

Behncke, Stefanie, Frölich, Markus, Lechner, Michael

This paper examines whether the chances of job placements improve if unemployed persons are counselled by caseworkers who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and...

Public Employment Services and Employers: How Important are Networks with Firms?

Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich, Michael Lechner

This paper examines whether contacts between caseworkers in public employment offices and employers impact on the reemployment chances of the unemployed they counsel. This analysis is made possible...

Targeting Labour Market Programmes - Results from a Randomized Experiment

Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich, Michael Lechner

We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assist caseworkers in Swiss employment offices in choosing appropriate active labour market programmes for their...

Targeting Labour Market Programmes: Results from a Randomized Experiment

Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich, Michael Lechner

We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assist caseworkers in Swiss employment offices in choosing appropriate active labour market programmes for their...

Targeting Labour Market Programmes - Results from A Randomised Experiment

Behncke, Stefanie, Frölich, Markus, Lechner, Michael

We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assist caseworkers in Swiss employment offices in choosing appropriate active labour market programmes for their...

Unemployed and their Caseworkers: Should they be Friends or Foes?

Stefanie Behncke, Markus Fröhlich, Michael Lechner

In many countries, caseworkers in a public employment office have the dual roles of counselling and monitoring unemployed persons. These roles often conflict with each other leading to important...

Public Employment Services and Employers: How Important are Networks with Firms?

Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich, Michael Lechner

This paper examines whether contacts between caseworkers in public employment offices and employers impact on the reemployment chances of the unemployed they counsel. This analysis is made possible...

Aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland und der Schweiz : eine Gegenüberstellung

Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich, Michael Lechner

Aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik in der Schweiz wird der deutschen gegenübergestellt. Beide Länder haben viele Gemeinsamkeiten bezüglich Zielsetzung, Instrumenten und institutionellen Reformen von...

A Caseworker Like Me: Does the Similarity between Unemployed and Caseworker Increase Job Placements?

Behncke, Stefanie, Frölich, Markus, Lechner, Michael

This paper examines whether the chances of job placements improve if unemployed persons are counselled by caseworkers who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and...

A Caseworker Like Me - Does The Similarity Between Unemployed And Caseworker Increase Job Placements?

Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich, Michael Lechner

This paper examines whether the chances of job placements improve if unemployed persons are counselled by caseworkers who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and...

Aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland und der Schweiz - eine Gegenüberstellung

Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich, Michael Lechner

The active labour market policies in Switzerland and Germany are compared. German and Swiss labour market policies have similar aims, instruments and experienced similar institutional reforms. In...

How Do Shocks to Non-Cognitive Skills Affect Test Scores?

Stefanie Behncke

This paper investigates the extent to which test performance is affected by shocks to noncognitive skills. 440 students took a low stakes mathematics test. About half of them were exposed to positive...

How Do Shocks to Non-Cognitive Skills Affect Test Scores?

Behncke, Stefanie

This paper investigates the extent to which test performance is affected by shocks to non-cognitive skills. 440 students took a low stakes mathematics test. About half of them were exposed to...

How Does Retirement Affect Health?

Stefanie Behncke

This paper investigates the effects of retirement on various health outcomes. Data stem from the first three waves of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). With this informative data,...

How Does Retirement Affect Health?

Behncke, Stefanie

This paper investigates the effects of retirement on various health outcomes. Data stem from the first three waves of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). With this informative data,...

Statistical Assistance for Programme Selection - For a Better Targeting of Active Labour Market Policies in Switzerland

Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich, Michael Lechner

Arbeitsmarktpolitik, Statistisches Auswahlverfahren, Schweiz, Labour market policy, Sample selection, Switzerland

Targeting Labour Market Programmes - Results from a Randomized Experiment

Michael Lechner, Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich

We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assist caseworkers in Swiss employment offices in choosing appropriate active labour market programmes for their...