Germany, relatively little is known about their actual impact. To the contrary, past evaluation efforts typically failed to … intervention. This paper argues that Germany lags clearly behind the current evaluation practice of other advanced economies, and … evaluation of policy interventions and possible empirical strategies for their solution. The available scientific evidence on the …

structured and to what it extent it could influence actual policy-making in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden over the last …

recent studies analyze the impact of measures of employment promotion for the case of Germany, no comparable study exists on … for the first time in the history of German employment promotion that evaluation should be an integral part of the … - evaluation itself has mistakenly been understood by the legislator as a pure accounting exercise. We discuss this problem from …

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 …

Each year Germany and many other developed economies spend tens of billions of Euros on active measures of employment … offices in Germany. To this end, we analyze ALMP in Germany in a spatially augmented regression framework. Our results suggest …

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 …