policies in Germany were overhauled considerably. The paper reviews the recent evaluation findings and draws some conclusion … for the future setup of active labor market policies in Germany. It argues in favor of a streamlined repertoire of active … placement vouchers) and calls for a systematic evaluation of all schemes not scrutinized so far. …

themselves. Based on publications in academic journals, the central criterion of research evaluation, research output has …

In this paper we evaluate the employment effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany …. Job creation schemes are a major element of active labour market policy in Germany and are targeted at long …

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

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 …

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 … estimate the impacts of ALMP in Germany for the time period 1999-2001 with regional data of 175 labour office districts. Due to …

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 …

Based on the ideas developed in the literature on the evaluation of active labor market policy, this paper provides a … framework for the evaluation of key elements of immigration policy. To this end, the fundamental ingredients of evaluating … evaluation of the effect of immigration policy is a particularly complex task since it requires unusually strong assumptions to …

Using three representative individual-level datasets for West Germany, we estimate the effect of the extension of …