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 …

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences … show furthermore that entrepreneurs have higher returns to education than employees (in terms of the comparable performance …

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

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 …

The German government has spent between 7bn and 11bn Euro per year on active labor market policies (ALMP) in East … a labor market with structural problems such as the one in East Germany. …

Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies … find that over 80% of participants are integrated in the labor market and have relatively high labor income five years … for the unemployed tend to be most effective for disadvantaged groups in the labor market. …

creation schemes have a significantly lower success probability on the labour market in comparison to matched non-participants. …