country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country's macroeconomic performance. After a … of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …

This reference paper describes the sampling and contents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey and outlines its vast …

In this paper, we suggest a novel approach to program evaluation that allows identification of the causal effect of a …

for the first time in the history of German employment promotion that evaluation should be an integral part of the … – evaluation itself has mistakenly been understood by the legislator as a pure accounting exercise. We discuss this problem from … the perspective of the recent evaluation literature in economics and statistics, thus providing a frame of reference for …

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 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 …

have to support the Foundation by depositing their redundancy payments. In evaluating post-foundation economic performance …

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 … point for our analysis we discuss the effects of ALMP in a theoretical labour market framework augmented by ALMP. We …

promotion. This paper contributes to the received literature by investigating whether a specific strategy of active labor market …

This paper reviews the main identification and estimation strategies for microeconomic policy evaluation. Particular …, active labour market policies may consist of different training programmes, employment programmes and wage subsidies …

applied when evaluating labour market policies, but empirical examples can be found in very diverse fields of study. Once the … to discuss these implementation issues and give some guidance to researchers who want to use PSM for evaluation purposes. …