The paper evaluates the treatment effects of the wage subsidy program in Hamburg with propensity score matching as well as linear regressions. It is found that the estimated treatment effects differ only slightly between both methods. When analysing heterogeneous treatment effects, however,...

The aim of the wage subsidy program in Hamburg is to encourage the creation of low wage jobs for unemployed persons with poor labor market opportunities. If a firm hires an unemployed job seeker, both the employer and the employee each receive a monthly wage subsidy of 250 Euros in the first ten...

"In 1998 the Slovenian UI system was drastically reformed. The reform reduced the potential duration of unemployment benefits substantially and simultaneously improved employment services offered to, and monitoring of, the recipients. We find that the reduction in potential benefit duration had...