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 …

This paper evaluates the effects of Public Sponsored Training in East Germany in the context of reiterated treatments …

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

to overcome such limitations for Germany by complementing administrative data from the Federal Employment Agency with … Germany from 2001 to 2008 and contains around 920,000 individuals. The complementary survey covers a panel of more than 17 …

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 …

(ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed …