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 …

promotion. This paper contributes to the received literature by investigating whether a specific strategy of active labor market …

This paper reviews the main identification and estimation strategies for microeconomic policy evaluation. Particular …, active labour market policies may consist of different training programmes, employment programmes and wage subsidies …

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. …