) have been used as a means to fight high unemployment. This paper discusses the mechanisms through which ALMPs affect (un)employment … open unemployment, but also reduced regular employment. The overall policy conclusion is that ALMPs of the scale used in …. There should be a greater emphasis on holding down long-term unemployment in general and a smaller emphasis on youth …

individuals. The programme effects are estimated considering the timing of treatment in the individual unemployment spell …. Applying propensity score matching in a dynamic setting where the time until treatment in the unemployment spell is stratified … quarter of the unemployment spell. For East Germany, none of the groups experiences an improvement of the labour market …

wichtig, nicht nur die Selektivität und Wirkungen einzelner Programme der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik zu kennen, sondern auch … of unemployed people through active labour market programmes. Especially for unemployment benefit II recipients it could … programme sequences of unemployment benefit II recipients considering different subgroups of them. We use a sample of persons …

: intervention works prolong unemployment for both genders as do public works for men. The number of observations on women in public …

Seit den Reformen im Jahre 2005 hat die deutsche Arbeitsmarktpolitik verstärkt das Ziel, erwerbsfähige Hilfebedürftige …