start. The effects are higher for women than for men and higher in West Germany than in East Germany. Further, we find that …

We use a new and exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to evaluate the employment effects of a variety … dynamic selection into programs. Our results suggest that in West Germany both short-term and medium-term programs show … exceptions, we find little evidence for significant positive treatment effects in East Germany. There is some evidence that the …

In order to reduce unemployment, it is often recommended that industry-level wage bargaining in Germany should be …