This paper investigates the macroeconomic effects of job creation schemes and vocational training on the matching … from 1999 to 2003. The empirical model relies on a dynamic version of a matching function augmented by ALMP. In order to … obtain consistent estimates in the presence of a dynamic panel data model, a firstdifferences GMM estimator and a transformed …

linear matching based on the estimated propensity score to estimate the average treatment effect on the treated of SPST …

-Anhalt, the econometric analysis can use a new and large panel, the Arbeitsmarktmonitor Sachsen-Anhalt. We aim at nonparametric …

deals with the question whether ALMP improves the matching-process between job-seekers and vacancies and thus increases the … former programme participants. The result from our augmented matching function shows that the lock-in effect is also present … matching process. However, this effect varies largely between different types of programmes. Positive effects occur for long …

propensity score matching methods we extend the picture that has been sketched in previous studies by estimating treatment …

justifies the application of a matching estimator but also allows to take account of threefold heterogeneity. The recently …

and social security records. We apply a matching estimator adapted for the case of multiple programmes. We find …