outcomes of unemployed voucher recipients in Germany, along with the causal mechanisms through which it operates. It assesses …

approach. In Germany all public sponsored further training programs are allocated through vouchers and the system, we study …

restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment … Employment Agency did not contribute to the decline in unemployment in Germany. By contrast, improved activation of unemployed …

In recent years, coinciding with the discussion led in many OECD countries, Germany has started to contract out … contracted out so far in Germany. In this paper a microeconometric evaluation of this system using propensity score matching is …