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Active Labor Market Policy in Germany - Is There a Successful Policy Strategy?

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Schneider, Hilmar - 2002

Each year Germany and many other developed economies spend tens of billions of Euros on active measures of employment promotion with the explicit aim of contributing to the reduction of unemployment. Yet, high unemployment has universally been a persistent problem throughout the last two...

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Evaluating Immigration Policy: Potentials and Limitations

Fertig, Michael - 2002

Based on the ideas developed in the literature on the evaluation of active labor market policy, this paper provides a … framework for the evaluation of key elements of immigration policy. To this end, the fundamental ingredients of evaluating … evaluation of the effect of immigration policy is a particularly complex task since it requires unusually strong assumptions to …

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The heterogeneous effects of training incidence and duration on labor market transitions

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; Paul, Marie - 2010

This paper estimates the impact of training incidence and duration on employment transitions accounting for the endogeneity of program participation and duration. We specify a very flexible bivariate random effects probit model for employment and training participation and we use Bayesian Markov...

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