This paper evaluates the effects of Public Sponsored Training in East Germany in the context of reiterated treatments. Selection bias based on observed characteristics is corrected for by applying kernel matching based on the propensity score. We control for further selection and the presence of...

This study analyzes the employment effects of training in East Germany. We propose and apply an extension of the widely used conditional difference-in-differences estimator. Focusing on transition rates between nonemployment and employment, we take into account that employment is a state- and...

"The paper gives an overview of the more recent scientific literature on the evaluation of Germany's active labour market policy (ALMP). The basic problem of microeconomic evaluation is estimating the control group for non-participation, whether on the basis of a comparable control group of...