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. …

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. …

This paper contributes to the literature on macroeconometric evaluation of active labour market policies (ALMP) by …

labor market. Reference data are generated in collaboration with the German Employment Office. The participation effect is …