Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those attitudes using time diaries on childcare, food management and religious activities provided by the British Time Use Survey. Given the low labor force participation of females from...

Deutschland benötigt Reformen, die den Arbeitsmarkt durchlässiger machen. Solche Veränderungen zugunsten der Arbeitlosen (Outsider) bedrohen aber die privilegierte Position der Arbeitsplatzbesitzer (Insider). Welche Strategien für Arbeitsmarktreformen sind vor diesem Hintergrund...

Langsam wird das beschäftigungspolitische Profi l der großen Koalition deutlich. Wie unterscheidet es sich von den Reformen der rot-grünen Regierungszeit? Oder zeigt sich eine längerfristige Kontinuität bei den Arbeitsmarktreformen in Deutschland?

This paper investigates the link between variation in the supply of workers who participate in specific types of active labour market policies (ALMPs) and firm performance using a new exceptionally informative German employer-employee data base. For identification we exploit that German local...

If labour market policies aimed at people with disabilities are effective, we should observe no significant difference in labour market outcomes between disable and non-disable individuals. This paper examines the impact of disability status on labour market outcomes using matching methods...

This paper proposes sequential matching and inverse selection probability weighting to estimate dynamic causal effects. The sequential matching estimators extend simple, matching estimators based on propensity scores for static causal analysis that have been frequently applied in the evaluation...