Das Zusammentreffen von Post-Corona-Krise, Digitalisierung, Energiewende, Mobilitätswende und Agrarwende erfordert eine arbeitsmarktpolitische Flankierung, die in den überkommenen Strukturen und Kategorien der Arbeitsmarktpolitik nicht darstellbar ist. Es geht weniger um neue Instrumente als...

Das Zusammentreffen von Post-Corona-Krise, Digitalisierung, Energiewende, Mobilitätswende und Agrarwende erfordert eine arbeitsmarktpolitische Flankierung, die in den überkommenen Strukturen und Kategorien der Arbeitsmarktpolitik nicht darstellbar ist. Es geht weniger um neue Instrumente als...

"In many countries fairly large and persistent regional disparities can be observed for a variety of economic indicators. Since these disparities can not be reduced to one single dimension, a classification system is needed to give a parsimonious overview. The article presents a system which is...

In many countries fairly large and persistent regional disparities can be observed for a variety of economic indicators. Since these disparities can not be reduced to one single dimension, a classification system is needed to give a parsimonious overview. The article presents a system which is...

"In many countries fairly large and persistent regional disparities can be observed for a variety of economic indicators. Since these disparities can not be reduced to one single dimension, a classification system is needed to give a parsimonious overview. The article presents a system which is...

This paper focuses on the effects of vocational training programmes on the duration of unemployment in Eastern Germany. We use information from administrative data of the Federal Employment Office. To allow for observable and possible unobservable influences we apply a multivariate mixed...

This study analyses the effects of public sector sponsored vocational training on individual unemployment and employment duration in East Germany. The data is taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). The empirical analysis is limited to training measures that took place between July...

This paper estimates causal effects of two Polish active labor market policies – Training and Intervention Works – on employment probabilities. Using data from the 18th wave of the Polish Labor Force Survey we discuss three stages of an appropriately designed matching procedure and...

Recent evaluations of active labor market policies are not very optimistic about their effectiveness to bring unemployed back to work. An important reason is that unemployed get locked-in, that is they reduce their effort to find a regular job. This paper uses an administrative dataset from the...