participation caused by budget rules in Germany in the 1980s and early 1990s, resulting in the infamous "end-of-year spending". In …

administrative data set, we apply matching and regression methods to measure the effect of the Hartz reform in Germany, which … important type of training in Germany, we find a slightly positive impact of the reform. Our decomposition results suggest that …

The so-called Hartz reform has introduced fundamental changes for publicly sponsored training in Germany. This concerns … effect. -- program evaluation ; occupational training ; Hartz-Reforms ; Germany …

effects of the most important type of public sector sponsored training in Germany, namely the provision of specific … Germany compared to East Germany. -- training program ; employment effects ; administrative data ; matching …

estimate the impacts of ALMP in Germany for the time period 1999-2001 with regional data of 175 labour office districts. Due to … accounts especially for the inherent simultaneity problem of ALMP. For West Germany we find positive effects of vocational … training and job creation schemes on the labour market situation, whereas the results for East Germany do not allow profound …

In 2003, Germany moved from a system in which participants in training programs for the unemployed are assigned by …

estimates the long-run differential employment effects of three different types of training programs in West Germany. We use …

-Reforms ; Germany …