can improve the matching efficiency. We analyse quarterly panel data of German job centres in the period 2006 to 2011 and … outcomes, much fewer studies are concerned with effects of these policies on the regional matching-process between job seekers … matching-function framework by applying the system generalized methods of moments estimator. Our results point to positive …

linear matching based on the estimated propensity score to estimate the average treatment effect on the treated of SPST … Germany compared to East Germany. -- training program ; employment effects ; administrative data ; matching …

deals with the question whether ALMP improves the matching-process between job-seekers and vacancies and thus increases the … former programme participants. The result from our augmented matching function shows that the lock-in effect is also present … matching process. However, this effect varies largely between different types of programmes. Positive effects occur for long …

linear matching based on the estimated propensity score to estimate the average treatment effect on the treated of SPST …

. Selection bias based on observed characteristics is corrected for by applying kernel matching based on the propensity score. We …

program. -- evaluation of active labor market policy in East Germany ; nonparametric matching ; conditional difference …

dynamic stochastic search-matching model with heterogeneous workers, where aggregate shocks to productivity fuel up the cycle …