France and Germany are two polar cases in the European debate about rising youth unemployment. Similar to what can be … been on continuous decline in Germany for many years, hardly affected by the Great Recession. This paper analyzes the …

principles, instruments, target groups and governance in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the … US, Sweden and Denmark. It assesses the effectiveness and efficiency of activation policies in terms of bringing the …

labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries …

two counties in Denmark during the winter of 2005-6. The treatment consisted of a dramatic intensification of labour …

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 …

administrative data set from Germany and statistical matching techniques. Our treatment groups consist of unemployed persons taking …

both unemployment and employment duration. Our analysis uses a rich administrative longitudinal data set for Germany where …

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

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