status on labour market outcomes using matching methods associated with treatment effect techniques for program evaluation … improving the identification and estimation strategy. Using the German Socio Economic Panel (1984-2001) we estimate the impact …

status on labour market outcomes using matching methods associated with treatment effect techniques for program evaluation … improving the identification and estimation strategy. Using the German Socio Economic Panel (1984-2001) we estimate the impact …

effects of the most important type of public sector sponsored training in Germany, namely the provision of specific … linear matching based on the estimated propensity score to estimate the average treatment effect on the treated of SPST … Germany compared to East Germany. …

For Germany, we analyse the (relative) effects of participation in several active labour market programmes on the … employment prospects of participants. First, our results show that different matching algorithms result in different severe …

using matching methods. Because precise estimation of the expected counterfactual is particularly important in regions …

administrative data set, we apply matching and regression methods to measure the effect of the Hartz reform in Germany, which … important type of training in Germany, we find a slightly positive impact of the reform. Our decomposition results suggest that …

This study analyzes the treatment effects of public training programs for the unemployed in Germany. Based on … propensity score matching methods we extend the picture that has been sketched in previous studies by estimating treatment …

This paper investigates the macroeconomic effects of job creation schemes and vocational training on the matching … processes in West Germany. The empirical analysis is based on regional data for local employment office districts for the period … from 1999 to 2003. The empirical model relies on a dynamic version of a matching function augmented by ALMP. In order to …

matching techniques, we analyse the effects of marginal employment on future individual outcome variables such as unemployment … with a small negative cumulative earnings effect for older workers in west Germany. …

This paper reviews the main identification and estimation strategies for microeconomic policy evaluation. Particular … nonparametric matching and weighting estimators of the average treatment effects and their properties are examined. …