active labor market policy offers a subsidy covering moving costs to incentivize unemployed job seekers to search/accept jobs … subsidy on participants' prospective labor market outcomes. We use an instrumental variable approach to take endogenous …

average. The majority of European countries spends significant resources each year on active labor market programs (ALMP) with … integration into the first labor market or further education. Based on a detailed assessment of the particularities of the youth … labor market situation, we discuss the pros and cons of different ALMP types. We then provide a comprehensive survey of the …

This reference paper describes the sampling and contents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey and outlines its vast …

. Job creation schemes are a major element of active labour market policy in Germany and are targeted at long …

labour market policies (ALMP) are the basis for a growing interest in evaluating these measures. This paper intends to … explain the need for evaluation on the micro- and macroeconomic level, introduce the fundamental evaluation problem and … solutions to it, give an overview of the newer developments in evaluation literature and finally take a look on empirical …

Most evaluation studies of active labour market policies (ALMP) focus on the microeconometric evaluation approach using … a first step to a complete evaluation which has to be followed by an analysis on the macroeconomic level. As a starting … point for our analysis we discuss the effects of ALMP in a theoretical labour market framework augmented by ALMP. We …

applied when evaluating labour market policies, but empirical examples can be found in very diverse fields of study. Once the … to discuss these implementation issues and give some guidance to researchers who want to use PSM for evaluation purposes. …

The need to evaluate the performance of active labour market policies is not questioned any longer. Even though OECD … focus on microeconometric evaluation which has to solve the fundamental evaluation problem and overcome the possible … occurrence of selection bias. When using non-experimental data, different evaluation approaches can be thought of. The aim of …

The German government has spent between 7bn and 11bn Euro per year on active labor market policies (ALMP) in East … a labor market with structural problems such as the one in East Germany. …