combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find … markets and investigates the employment effects of Active Labour Market Pro-grammes (ALMPs) on this subgroup. Using a meta …

for the dramatic decline in employment and the unprecedented increase in unemployment in the east German economy. …

private competitors. We exploit very rich administrative data provided for the first time by the Federal Employment Agency and … vouchers. We find positive treatment effects on the employment probability after one year of 6.5 percentage points in Western … Germany and give a measure for deadweight loss. …

Die Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit genießt oberste wirtschaftspolitische Priorität - dieser Feststellung wird kaum …

high effect of employment protection for regular jobs on youth unemployment. In addition, the combined effects of powerful …This paper analyzes the role of labor market institutions for youth unemployment, as contrasted to total unemployment … establishes significant labor supply effects and effects of the education system on youth and total unemployment. …

immigrants. -- Immigrants ; employment programs ; evaluation ; decomposition of effects ; Germany …We evaluate the effects of the most frequently used German welfare-to-work program on the employment chances of … either. Therefore, the program is a dead-end road rather than a merging lane to regular employment both for natives and for …

With the purpose to reduce winter unemployment and to promote all-season employment in the constructions sector …, Germany maintains an extensive bad weather allowance system. Since the mid 1990s, these regulations have been subject to … several reforms that resemble the range of approaches for employment promotion which can be found in other European countries …