In Deutschland wird bereits seit einiger Zeit eine lebhafte Debatte um die Einführung von Mindestlöhnen geführt … nicht unmittelbar auf Deutschland übertragbar. Für Deutschland selbst existieren an wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten bislang nur … vorliegende Arbeit ergänzt die bisherigen Erkenntnisse zu Mindestlöhnen in Deutschland wesentlich und bringt neue Ergebnisse in …

for the first time in the history of German employment promotion that evaluation should be an integral part of the … - evaluation itself has mistakenly been understood by the legislator as a pure accounting exercise. We discuss this problem from … the perspective of the recent evaluation literature in economics and statistics, thus providing a frame of reference for …

Germany, relatively little is known about their actual impact. To the contrary, past evaluation efforts typically failed to … intervention. This paper argues that Germany lags clearly behind the current evaluation practice of other advanced economies, and … evaluation of policy interventions and possible empirical strategies for their solution. The available scientific evidence on the …

Large-scale environmental programs generally commit substantial societal resources, making the evaluation of their … and statistics literature on program evaluation could be utilized to advance considerably in this context. In particular …, the construction of a credible counterfactual situation is at the heart of the formal statistical evaluation problem. Even …