In this paper we evaluate the employment effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany …. Job creation schemes are a major element of active labour market policy in Germany and are targeted at long …

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 …

Most evaluation studies of active labour market policies (ALMP) focus on the microeconometric evaluation approach using … a first step to a complete evaluation which has to be followed by an analysis on the macroeconomic level. As a starting … estimate the impacts of ALMP in Germany for the time period 1999-2001 with regional data of 175 labour office districts. Due to …

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

This paper evaluates the effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany. Since previous … empirical studies of these measures have been based on relatively small datasets and focussed on East Germany, this is the first …

Recent microeconometric evaluation studies have shown that start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are an … administrative and survey data and observe participants in two distinct start-up programs in Germany for five years after start-up as …

to discuss these implementation issues and give some guidance to researchers who want to use PSM for evaluation purposes. …

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 … major topic in evaluation research in recent years, we will also assess the ability of each estimator to deal with it …