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...

The German government has spent between 7bn and 11bn Euro per year on active labor market policies (ALMP) in East Germany in the last decade. The effectiveness of the most important programs (in terms of participants and spending) such as job-creation schemes and vocational training has been...

The principal means by which individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency is through labor market earnings. As a consequence, it is natural for policy makers to look to interventions that increase the ability of individuals and families to achieve an adequate standard of living...

Over the last decade, both the availability of quantitative indicators on labor market institutions and of studies trying to explain differences in national labor market performance through institutional variables have burgeoned significantly. It is now time to review these indicators and the...

Das Thema Politikberatung hat wieder Konjunktur, seitdem die rot-grüne Regierung in bis dahin ungekannter Weise Wissenschaftler in die Vorbereitung von Reformen einbezog. In diesem Buch werden die entscheidungsrelevanten Beratungen für ein Politikfeld, die Arbeitsmarktpolitik, in Augenschein...

This paper investigates the causal effect of job training on wage rates in the presence of firm heterogeneity. When training affects worker sorting to firms, sample selection is no longer binary but is "multilayered". This paper extends the canonical Heckman (1979) sample selection model - which...

Acht Jahre nach der Einführung der Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende im Jahr 2005 zieht das IAB erneut Bilanz. Der Bericht fasst die Ergebnisse aus der SGB-II-Forschung des IAB in den Jahren 2009 bis 2012 zusammen und stellt die Befunde in einen größeren Zusammenhang. Der Stand des Wissens...