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What active labour market programmes work for immigrants in Europe? A meta-analysis of the evaluation literature

Butschek, Sebastian; Walter, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour … markets and investigates the employment effects of Active Labour Market Pro-grammes (ALMPs) on this subgroup. Using a meta …

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The heterogeneous effects of training incidence and duration on labor market transitions

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; Paul, Marie - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

This paper estimates the impact of training incidence and duration on employment transitions accounting for the endogeneity of program participation and duration. We specify a very flexible bivariate random effects probit model for employment and training participation and we use Bayesian Markov...

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Short-term training programs for immigrants: do effects differ from natives and why?

Aldashev, Alisher; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

We evaluate the effects of different short-term training programs on the employment chances of immigrant and native welfare recipients in Germany. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between both groups and what might cause these potential differences. In a first step,...

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Estimating the effects of public training on Polish unemployment by way of the augmented matching function approach

Puhani, Patrick A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999

We analyse Polish active labour market policy (ALMP) training programmes from a macroeconomic (regional) point of view …

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Crowding out Informal Care? Evidence from a Social Experiment in Germany

Arntz, Melanie; Thomsen, Stephan L. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

the standard home care programs of the German long-term care insurance. The evaluation makes use of a long-run social …

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Do hiring subsidies reduce unemployment among the elderly? Evidence from two natural experiments

Ammermüller, Andreas; Zwick, Thomas; Boockmann, Bernhard; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

We estimate the effects of hiring subsidies for older workers on transitions from unemployment to employment in Germany. Using a natural experiment, our first set of estimates is based on a legal change extending the group of eligible unemployed persons. A subsequent legal change in the opposite...

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Which Program for Whom? Evidence on the Comparative Effectiveness of Public Sponsored Training Programs in Germany

Biewen, Martin; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

We use a new and exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to evaluate the employment effects of a variety of public sponsored training programs in the early 2000s. Building on the work of Sianesi (2003, 2004), we employ propensity score matching methods in a dynamic, multiple...

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Advantage through training? A microeconometric evaluation of the employment effects of active labour market programmes in Poland

Puhani, Patrick A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1998

labour market programme (ALMP) participation between January 1992 and August 1996. The data are obtained from the Polish … Labour Force Survey of August 1996 and its Supplement on Labour Market Policies. Because there is no general agreement on the … appropriate evaluation methodology when working with non-experimental data, we use two widely applied approaches to identify …

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Temporary extra jobs for immigrants: Merging lane to employment or dead-end road in welfare?

Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

We evaluate the effects of the most frequently used German welfare-to-work program on the employment chances of immigrant welfare recipients. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between immigrants and natives and what might cause these potential differences. Our results...

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Teaching, organization, and personal problems: Evidence from reforming tertiary education in Germany

Mühlenweg, Andrea M. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

account as I control for individual performance at secondary school, motivation and family background and try different …

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