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Discretionary Measures of Active Labor Market Policy: The German Employment Promotion Reform in Perspective

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000

recent studies analyze the impact of measures of employment promotion for the case of Germany, no comparable study exists on …

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Arbeitsmarktpolitische Maßnahmen und ihre Evaluierung: eine Bestandsaufnahme

Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000

Germany, relatively little is known about their actual impact. To the contrary, past evaluation efforts typically failed to … intervention. This paper argues that Germany lags clearly behind the current evaluation practice of other advanced economies, and …

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Active Labor Market Policy in Germany - Is There a Successful Policy Strategy?

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Schneider, Hilmar - 2002

Each year Germany and many other developed economies spend tens of billions of Euros on active measures of employment … offices in Germany. To this end, we analyze ALMP in Germany in a spatially augmented regression framework. Our results suggest …

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Active Labor Market Policies in Poland: Human Capital Enhancement, Stigmatization or Benefit Churning

Kluve, Jochen; Lehmann, Hartmut; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999

This paper provides micro-econometric evidence on the effectiveness of Active Labor Market Policies (ALMP) in Poland. We sketch the theoretical framework of matching estimators as a substitute for randomization in labor market programs. Using retrospective data from the 18th wave of the Polish...

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Disentangling Treatment Effects of Polish Active Labor Market Policies: Evidence from Matched Samples

Kluve, Jochen; Lehmann, Hartmut; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2001

This paper estimates causal effects of two Polish active labor market policies – Training and Intervention Works – on employment probabilities. Using data from the 18th wave of the Polish Labor Force Survey we discuss three stages of an appropriately designed matching procedure and...

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Wage subsidies for needy job-seekers and their effect on individual labour market outcomes after the German reforms

Bernhard, Sarah; Gartner, Hermann; Stephan, Gesine - 2008

Our paper estimates the average effect of wage subsidies - paid to employers for a limited period of time - on the labour market prospects of needy job-seekers without access to insurance-paid 'unemployment benefit I'. The results show that wage subsidies had large and significant favourable...

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The relative effectiveness of selected active labour market programmes and the common support problem

Stephan, Gesine; Pahnke, André - 2008

For Germany, we analyse the (relative) effects of participation in several active labour market programmes on the …

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