regulation would be in force by the time their child is born. Our results are based on unique data from the official evaluation …

We use a new and exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to evaluate the employment effects of a variety … dynamic selection into programs. Our results suggest that in West Germany both short-term and medium-term programs show … exceptions, we find little evidence for significant positive treatment effects in East Germany. There is some evidence that the …

Short-term training has recently become the largest active labor market program in Germany regarding the number of … paper estimates the effects of short-term training programs in West Germany starting in the time period 1980 to 1992 and …

for reform and its main principles. As results of programme evaluation studies post-reform have become available just now …

evaluation concept capable of generating reliable empirical evidence by that date. The task is therefore to develop a ready …-to-implement concept for the evaluation of the full set of reforms in their entirety, as well as each instrument on its own, facing … essential guidelines for an ideal evaluation design, conceptual and practical difficulties that arise in the context of …

Against the background of the current discussion on the introduction of statutory minimum wages in Germany, this paper … from a structural labor demand model, the empirical results imply that the introduction of minimum wages in Germany will be …