games and underdogs to be less performing. They also show that the performance differential between players increases with …

records plus matched labour market data. We focus on three main issues: whether performance pay matters for public service …This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot … targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We use data from the agency's performance management system and personnel …

games and underdogs to be less performing. They also show that the performance differential between players increases with …

records plus matched labour market data. We focus on three main issues: whether performance pay matters for public service …This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot … targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We use data from the agency's performance management system and personnel …

In this paper, we suggest a novel approach to program evaluation that allows identification of the causal effect of a …

for the first time in the history of German employment promotion that evaluation should be an integral part of the … – evaluation itself has mistakenly been understood by the legislator as a pure accounting exercise. We discuss this problem from … the perspective of the recent evaluation literature in economics and statistics, thus providing a frame of reference for …

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 …

have to support the Foundation by depositing their redundancy payments. In evaluating post-foundation economic performance …

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 …