Activation measures for unemployment insurance benefit recipients

7 Activation measures for unemployment insurance benefit recipients 

With the Hartz reforms a number of new instruments were created that aim at a more effective re-integration of the unemployed although they are not activating in a narrow sense, i.e. used to enforce benefit conditionality. These innovative instruments comprise different forms of flexible and subsidised employment apart from classical employer-oriented wage subsidies  

Temporary agency work for the unemployment provided by specific agencies associated with the PES (Personal-Service-Agenturen) 

Part-time work up to EUR 400 per month exempt from employees contributions to social insurance and taxes (Minijobs) replacing older models of minor employment (geringfiigige Beschafiigung) with a lower earnings threshold 

Jobs between EUR 400 and 800 per month with employees social insurance contributions increasing proportionally with earnings (Midijobs) 

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