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 …

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

Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies … find that over 80% of participants are integrated in the labor market and have relatively high labor income five years … for the unemployed tend to be most effective for disadvantaged groups in the labor market. …

. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal … success, these variables were neglected in evaluation studies so far due to data limitations. In this paper, we evaluate a new … administrative-survey data allows us to incorporate usually unobserved personality measures in the evaluation and investigate their …

Offering unemployed individuals a subsidy to become self-employed is a widespread active labor market policy strategy … market prospects compared to other unemployed individuals. However, the examination of start-up subsidies from a business …

Recent microeconometric evaluation studies have shown that start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are an … active labor market programs (e.g. training, job search assistance or job creation schemes). What has not been examined yet … restrictions in areas with relatively bad labor market conditions generally increase entries into start-up programs as job offers …

A shortage of skilled labor and low female labor market participation are problems many developed countries have to … female-specific labor market constraints (preferences for flexible working hours, discrimination), this is a difficult task …, and the question arises whether active labor market policies (ALMP) are an appropriate tool to do so. Promoting self …

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

Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies … find that over 80% of participants are integrated in the labor market and have relatively high labor income five years … for the unemployed tend to be most effective for disadvantaged groups in the labor market. …