Ausgangspunkt der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die Überlegung, dass Arbeits- und Immobilienmärkte nicht als perfekt anzusehen sind und von unvollständigen Informationen sowie Transaktionskosten geprägt sind. Individuen haben daher nicht zu jedem Zeitpunkt Informationen darüber, welche...

This chapter summarizes the literature on the evaluation of immigration policies. It brings together two strands of the literature dealing with the evaluation of labor market programs and with the economic integration of immigrants. Next to immigrant selection and settlement policies, there are...

This paper studies the role of training vouchers and caseworkers in public training programs. Using a rich administrative data set, we apply matching and regression methods to measure the effect of the Hartz reform in Germany, which introduced training vouchers and imposed more selective...

This study analyzes the treatment effects of public training programs for the unemployed in Germany. Based on propensity score matching methods we extend the picture that has been sketched in previous studies by estimating treatment effects of medium-term programs for different sub-groups with...