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Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policy: Methodological Concepts and Empirical Estimates

Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco - 2000

Persistently high unemployment, tight government budgets and the growing scepticism regarding the effects of active 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...

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Macroeconometric Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies in Germany - A Dynamic Panel Approach Using Regional Data

Zeiss, Christopher; Caliendo, Marco; Blien, Uwe; Hujer, … - 2002

estimate the impacts of ALMP in Germany for the time period 1999-2001 with regional data of 175 labour office districts. Due to … accounts especially for the inherent simultaneity problem of ALMP. For West Germany we find positive effects of vocational … training and job creation schemes on the labour market situation, whereas the results for East Germany do not allow profound …

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Making Work Pay': in a rationed labour market

Bargain, Olivier; Caliendo, Marco; Haan, Peter; Orsini, … - 2006

We assess the labour supply effects of two 'making work pay' reforms in Germany. We provide evidence in favour of …

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Start-ups by the unemployed: characteristics, survival and direct employment effects

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2007

,100 start-ups founded by unemployed persons in Germany. Individuals were subsidized under two different schemes, and we are able …

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Die reformierte Gründungsförderung für Arbeitslose: Chancen und Risiken

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander S. - 2007

Support schemes for unemployed aiming for self-employment have been recently reformed several times. In 2003, the start-up subsidy" was added to the existing bridging allowance". In 2006 both instruments were merged to the Gründungszuschuss". Since the bridging allowance has been evaluated as...

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Turning unemployment into self-employment: Effectiveness and efficiency of two start-up programmes

Baumgartner, Hans J.; Caliendo, Marco - 2007

recent years. If effective, this would not only reduce Germany's persistently high unemployment rate, but also increase its … the unemployed into self-employment may prove to be among the most effective, both in Germany and elsewhere. …

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Die Nachhaltigkeit von geförderten Existenzgründungen aus Arbeitslosigkeit: eine Bilanz nach fünf Jahren

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Wießner, Frank - 2008

Die Ich-AG (Existenzgründungszuschuss) war eines der zentralen Instrumente, das im Rahmen der Hartz-Reformen in den arbeitsmarktpolitischen Kanon aufgenommen wurde. Zusammen mit dem bereits seit langem bekannten Überbrückungsgeld wurden damit zwischen 2003 und 2006 mehr als eine Million...

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Start-up subsidies for the unemployed: long-term evidence and effect heterogeneity

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - 2010

(ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed …

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Income support systems, labor market policies and labor supply: the German experience

Caliendo, Marco - 2009

, their recent reforms and - where already possible - effects of these reforms. Overall, Germany seems to be on the right …

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The threat effect of participation in active labor market programs on job search behavior of migrants in Germany

Bergemann, Annette; Caliendo, Marco; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2011

Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects may differ according to ethnic origin. We apply a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job search behavioral outcomes, such as the reservation wage or...

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