"This paper does not go into the results of the Hartz evaluation but explains the general framework of this large research project. It is emphasised that the extensive investigations as to the effects of active labour market policy symbolise a new quality in the discourse of policy and research...

"This paper presents the project 'Treatment Effects and Prediction' (TrEffeR) of the Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit - BA). One of the tasks of the project is to provide estimates of the effectiveness of active labor market policy measures for management purposes. The...

"Die arbeitsmarktpolitische Wirkungsforschung hat erhebliche Bedeutung auch für die Rechtsfindung. Daß diese Bedeutung noch nicht hinreichend erschlossen ist, liegt sowohl an der unzureichenden Ausrichtung auf Fragen der Rechtsfindung als auch daran, daß auf seiten der Rechtswissenschaft noch...

"Ausgewählt wurde Literatur, die sich mit den Wirkungen - gleich ob angestrebt oder nicht - staatlich-politischer Maßnahmen befaßt. Der hierbei zugrundeliegende Begriff von Wirkungsforschung wurde bewußt weit gefaßt. ... Die Bibliographie weist insgesamt ca. 200 Titel nach. Sie ist im...

"In view of the continuing serious labour market imbalance, in the context of the reintegration section of the Federal Employment Services support funds on a scale of over DM 25 billion are spent year after year to facilitate the occupational integration of hard-to-place unemployed people. In...

"The first part of the treatise deals with the relationship between evaluation and quality management in labour market policy. The considerations on this point refer mainly to the fact that one-dimensional evaluation approaches based solely upon the results of integration balances are...

"This paper provides a review of theoretical and empirical research on the concept of policy styles as well as a discussion on the merits of its integration in impact analysis of labour market policies. We argue for focusing on administrative organizations' heterogeneity in the implementation...

"In many countries fairly large and persistent regional disparities can be observed for a variety of economic indicators. Since these disparities can not be reduced to one single dimension, a classification system is needed to give a parsimonious overview. The article presents a system which is...

"This data report provides a description of the weakly-anonymized IZA/IAB Administrative Evaluation Dataset (AED 9310)." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))<br><br><b>Additional Information</b><ul><li><a href='http://doku.iab.de/fdz/reporte/2015/DR_03-15_frequencies_labels_de.zip'>Auszählungen</a></li><li><a href='http://doku.iab.de/fdz/reporte/2015/DR_03-15_frequencies_labels_en.zip'>Frequencies and labels</a></li></ul>