explain the need for evaluation on the micro- and macroeconomic level, introduce the fundamental evaluation problem and … solutions to it, give an overview of the newer developments in evaluation literature and finally take a look on empirical …

Recent microeconometric evaluation studies have shown that start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are an … administrative and survey data and observe participants in two distinct start-up programs in Germany for five years after start-up as …

. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal … success, these variables were neglected in evaluation studies so far due to data limitations. In this paper, we evaluate a new … start-up subsidy for unemployed individuals in Germany using propensity score matching under the CIA. Having access to rich …

Most evaluation studies of active labour market policies (ALMP) focus on the microeconometric evaluation approach using … a first step to a complete evaluation which has to be followed by an analysis on the macroeconomic level. As a starting … estimate the impacts of ALMP in Germany for the time period 1999-2001 with regional data of 175 labour office districts. Due to …

In 2015, Germany introduced a statutory hourly minimum wage that was not only universally binding but also set at a …

,100 start-ups founded by unemployed persons in Germany. Individuals were subsidized under two different schemes, and we are able …

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effort. -- Policy evaluation ; reservation wage ; search effort ; expectations ; unemployment duration ; program evaluation …