evaluation of active labor market policies in Germany. Design/methodology/approach – The paper's approach is a description of the …Purpose – This paper aims to present the IZA Evaluation Dataset, a newly created data source allowing for the … sampling and contents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset and an outline of its research potential. Findings – The evaluation of …

Most evaluation studies of active labour market policies (ALMP) focus on the micro-econometric evaluation approach … be seen as a first step to a complete evaluation which has to be followed by an analysis on the macroeconomic level. As a … estimate the impacts of ALMP in Germany for the time period 1999-2001 with regional data of 175 labour office districts. Due to …

(ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed …

Job creation schemes (JCS) have been one important programme of active labour market policy (ALMP) in Germany for a … microeconometric evaluation of these programmes was hindered by the fact, that available survey datasets have been too small to account …

ex ante effect of the German active labor market program (ALMP) system is examined using the novel IZA Evaluation Data …

/methodology/approach – The authors use the IZA Evaluation Dataset containing detailed information on job search behavior of recently unemployed …

start-up subsidy) in East Germany. Design/methodology/approach – Using a combination of administrative data from the Federal … unemployed into entrepreneurs may be a promising strategy in East Germany. Originality/value – This is one of the first studies … that allows inferences to be drawn about the effectiveness of start-up programs in East Germany. Most previous studies on …