By merging administrative data on public finances of all municipalities in Germany with individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we explore whether local public expenditures on sports facilities influences individual labor market outcomes. Our identification strategy follows a...

The paper studies the returns from enterprise-related continuous vocational training on individual earnings, unemployment probabilities, and other labor market indicators in East Germany after unification. It attempts to solve the intrinsic identification problem of such evaluation problems...

This paper develops a life-cycle model of labour supply that captures endogenous human capital formation allowing for individual's heterogeneous responses to stochastic labour market shocks. The shocks determines conditions in the labour market and sort individuals into three labour market...

The third chapter estimates negative average effects of a Swiss job search programme for unemployed persons. Those who are send to the job search programme are significantly less likely to find a job quickly than comparable unemployed persons who do not participate in such a programme. Recent...

In the second part of the 1990's Switzerland conducted an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing a wide variety of programmes. We evaluate the effects of these programmes on the individual employment probability of potential participants. Our econometric analysis uses...

We systematically investigate the effect heterogeneity of job search programmes for unemployed workers. To investigate possibly heterogeneous employment effects, we combine non-experimental causal empirical models with Lasso-type estimators. The empirical analyses are based on rich...