reservation wage or search intensity, to each other. German native workers are compared with migrants with a Turkish origin or … ex ante effect of the German active labor market program (ALMP) system is examined using the novel IZA Evaluation Data …

observable formal job search effort of individuals, public job search monitoring policies should take these effects into account …

evaluation of active labor market policies in Germany. Design/methodology/approach – The paper's approach is a description of the … active labor market policies is often confronted with a lack of adequate empirical data. The IZA Evaluation Dataset may serve … policy instruments that can be analyzed with the IZA Evaluation Dataset is mainly restricted to measures for unemployed …

the effectiveness of active labour market policies in the Eastern part of Germany neglected these programs. … 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 …

labour position of less skilled employees. The two most common explanations for this finding are an increasing international … the German Federal Employment Office. Our empirical results indicate that technological change in the form of product …

Most evaluation studies of active labour market policies (ALMP) focus on the microeconometric evaluation approach using … estimate the impacts of ALMP in Germany for the time period 1999-2001 with regional data of 175 labour office districts. Due to … the high persistence of German labour market data the application of a dynamic model is crucial. Furthermore our analysis …

Many countries support business start-ups to spur economic growth and reduce unemployment with different programmes … start-up subsidy for unemployed individuals in Germany using propensity score matching under the CIA. Having access to rich …

The promotion of self-employment as part of active labor market policies is considered to be one of the most important … 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 …

In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income by working a few hours per week. The …