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Macroeconometric Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies in Germany - A Dynamic Panel Approach Using Regional Data

Hujer, Reinhard; Blien, Uwe; Caliendo, Marco; Zeiss, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Most evaluation studies of active labour market policies (ALMP) focus on the microeconometric evaluation approach using … a first step to a complete evaluation which has to be followed by an analysis on the macroeconomic level. As a starting …

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Is the Notification of Monitoring a Threat to the Unemployed? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In July 2004, the Belgian government intensified monitoring within the Unemployment Insurance scheme. Workers claiming unemployment benefits for more than 13 months are notified that past job-search behavior will be monitored 8 months later. In one region the target group is counseled shortly...

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The Employment Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany: A Microeconometric Evaluation

Caliendo, Marco; Hujer, Reinhard; Thomsen, Stephan L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

In this paper we evaluate the employment effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany. Job creation schemes are a major element of active labour market policy in Germany and are targeted at long-term unemployed and other hard-to-place individuals. Access to very...

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Discretionary Measures of Active Labor Market Policy: The German Employment Promotion Reform in Perspective

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

for the first time in the history of German employment promotion that evaluation should be an integral part of the … - evaluation itself has mistakenly been understood by the legislator as a pure accounting exercise. We discuss this problem from … the perspective of the recent evaluation literature in economics and statistics, thus providing a frame of reference for …

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IIs the Notification of Monitoring a Threat to the Unemployed ? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Bart, COCKX; Muriel, DEJEMEPPE - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2007

In july 2004, the Belgian government intensified monitoring within the Unemployment Insurance scheme. Workers claiming unemployment benefits for more than 13 months are notified that past job-search behavior will be monitored 8 months later. In one region the target group is counseled shortly...

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And Then There Were Four ...: How Many (and Which) Measures of Active Labor Market Policy Do We Still Need? ; Finding a Balance after the Evaluation of the Hartz Reforms in Germany

Eichhorst, Werner; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

systematically evaluated. This paper reviews the recent evaluation findings and draws some conclusions for the future setup of active … a systematic evaluation of all instruments not scrutinized so far. …

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Identifying Effect Heterogeneity to Improve the Effiency of Job Creation Schemes in Germany?

Caliendo, Marco; Hujer, Reinhard; Thomsen, Stephan L. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

Previous empirical studies of job creation schemes in Germany have shown that the average effects for the participating individuals are negative. However, we find that this is not true for all strata of the population. Identifying individual characteristics that are responsible for the effect...

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Evaluation der Eingliederungseffekte von Arbeitsbeschaffungsmaßnahmen in reguläre Beschäftigung für Teilnehmer in Deutschland

Caliendo, Marco; Hujer, Reinhard; Thomsen, Stephan L. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

In dieser Studie werden die Wirkungen von Arbeitsbeschaffungsmaßnahmen (ABM) in Deutschland auf die individuellen Eingliederungswahrscheinlichkeiten der Teilnehmer in reguläre Beschäftigung evaluiert. Für die Untersuchung wird ein umfangreicher und informativer Datensatz aus den Datenquellen...

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Three Approaches to the Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policy in East Germany Using Regional Data

Hagen, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

the regional allocation rule of the funding of ALMPs and the fundamental simultaneity problem in macroeconomic evaluation …

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And Then There Were Four...How Many (and Which) Measures of Active Labor Market Policy Do We Still Need?

Eichhorst, Werner; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: Applied Economics Quarterly (formerly: Konjunkturpolitik) 53 (2007) 3, pp. 243-272

evaluated. This paper reviews the recent evaluation findings and draws conclusions for the future setup of active labor market … evaluation of all instruments not scrutinized so far, and for a permanent process of decentralized experimentation and re-evaluation. …

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