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

In this paper we evaluate the employment effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany …. Job creation schemes are a major element of active labour market policy in Germany and are targeted at long …

This paper focuses on the effects of vocational training programmes on the duration of unemployment in Eastern Germany …

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 …

This paper evaluates the effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany. Since previous … empirical studies of these measures have been based on relatively small datasets and focussed on East Germany, this is the first …

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 …

While high rates of youth unemployment are a severe problem in most European countries, the program evaluation …