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 …

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 …

Based on the ideas developed in the literature on the evaluation of active labor market policy, this paper provides a … framework for the evaluation of key elements of immigration policy. To this end, the fundamental ingredients of evaluating … evaluation of the effect of immigration policy is a particularly complex task since it requires unusually strong assumptions to …

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 …

estimate this model on a large administrative panel data set which traces labour market transitions, mobility across firms and …

This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on … employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through …-takes-all tournament. We find that, regardless of the pay scheme used, feedback does not improve performance. There are no significant peer …