status on labour market outcomes using matching methods associated with treatment effect techniques for program evaluation … improving the identification and estimation strategy. Using the German Socio Economic Panel (1984-2001) we estimate the impact …

effects of the most important type of public sector sponsored training in Germany, namely the provision of specific … linear matching based on the estimated propensity score to estimate the average treatment effect on the treated of SPST … Germany compared to East Germany. …

For Germany, we analyse the (relative) effects of participation in several active labour market programmes on the … employment prospects of participants. First, our results show that different matching algorithms result in different severe …

Having close linkages with the counterfactual concept of causality, nonparametric matching estimators have recently … causal model (RCM), the paper discusses the implementation of counterfactual analyses by propensity score matching methods … underlying matching methods relative to standard regression analysis. We then illustrate the application of matching estimators …

using matching methods. Because precise estimation of the expected counterfactual is particularly important in regions …

administrative data set, we apply matching and regression methods to measure the effect of the Hartz reform in Germany, which … important type of training in Germany, we find a slightly positive impact of the reform. Our decomposition results suggest that …

This study analyzes the treatment effects of public training programs for the unemployed in Germany. Based on … propensity score matching methods we extend the picture that has been sketched in previous studies by estimating treatment …

the set-up of the promotion of self-employment. A statistical matching approach is used to control for selectivity and is …-finanzielle Förderinstrumente bei Gründungen aus der Arbeitslosigkeit. Deutschland hat hier in den letzten Jahren zahlreiche neue Instrumente …

effects of the most important type of public sector sponsored training in Germany, namely the provision of specific … linear matching based on the estimated propensity score to estimate the average treatment effect on the treated of SPST … Germany compared to East Germany. …

This paper investigates the macroeconomic effects of job creation schemes and vocational training on the matching … processes in West Germany. The empirical analysis is based on regional data for local employment office districts for the period … from 1999 to 2003. The empirical model relies on a dynamic version of a matching function augmented by ALMP. In order to …