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 …

By using a large new panel of individual data, including objective measures of worker performance, we provide some of … find that earnings-tenure profiles for employee owners are not upward-sloping but horizontal. In addition we find that pay-performance …

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

. Job creation schemes are a major element of active labour market policy in Germany and are targeted at long …

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 …

The need to evaluate the performance of active labour market policies is not questioned any longer. Even though OECD … 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 …