unemployment support schemes in Germany. Against this background the main part of this thesis contributes to the evaluation of …-up subsidies in Germany, and are based on a novel data set of administrative data from the Federal Employment Agency that was …

Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013. We show that hosting the Olympics increases subjective well-being of the …

Londoners during the Games, compared to residents of Paris and Berlin. Notwithstanding issues of causal inference, the magnitude …

Londoners during the Games, compared to residents of Paris and Berlin. Notwithstanding issues of causal inference, the magnitude …

Londoners during the Games, compared to residents of Paris and Berlin. Notwithstanding issues of causal inference, the magnitude …

estimate the impacts of ALMP in Germany for the time period 1999-2001 with regional data of 175 labour office districts. Due to … accounts especially for the inherent simultaneity problem of ALMP. For West Germany we find positive effects of vocational … training and job creation schemes on the labour market situation, whereas the results for East Germany do not allow profound …