the measures’ effectiveness and efficiency cannot yet be met. In this case, policy evaluation has to be judged as an … interactive process of knowledge generation. -- Evaluation ; causal analysis ; rural development measures ; employment … Wissensgenerierung dar. -- Evaluation ; Wirkungsanalyse ; Politik für den ländlichen Raum ; Arbeitsplatzeffekte …

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 …

explain the need for evaluation on the micro- and macroeconomic level, introduce the fundamental evaluation problem and … solutions to it, give an overview of the newer developments in evaluation literature and finally take a look on empirical …