This paper evaluates the effect of a voucher award system for assignment into vocational training on the employment … outcomes of unemployed voucher recipients in Germany, along with the causal mechanisms through which it operates. It assesses … negative short term and positive long term employment effects of voucher award are mainly driven by actual training …

subsidy for temporary jobs in the regular labour market that would otherwise not be taken up by the unemployed. We also find … large negative effects for traditional employment programmes operated in sheltered labour markets. For training courses the …In the second part of the 1990's Switzerland conducted an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing a …

subsidy for temporary jobs in the regular labour market that would otherwise not be taken up by the unemployed. We also find … large negative effects for traditional employment programmes operated in sheltered labour markets. For training courses the …In the second part of the 1990's Switzerland conducted an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing a …