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 …

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 …

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 …