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. …

Empirical work on continuing training in Germany provides surprisingly divergent evidence on the incidence of training … correlation between continuing vocational training and wages are examined. Results are compared in order to analyse in how far …

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. …

We evaluate the effects of different short-term training programs on the employment chances of immigrant and native … welfare recipients in Germany. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between both groups and what might … ; decomposition ; matching ; Germany …