The evaluation of labor market policies has become an important issue in many European countries. In recent years, a … number of them have opened their administrative databases for evaluation studies. The advantages of administrative data are … purposes. Therefore, information that might be relevant for economic modeling is often absent. The IZA Evaluation Dataset aims …

microeconometric evaluation of these programmes was hindered by the fact, that available survey datasets have been too small to account …

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

policies in Germany were overhauled considerably. The paper reviews the recent evaluation findings and draws some conclusion … placement vouchers) and calls for a systematic evaluation of all schemes not scrutinized so far. …

focus on microeconometric evaluation which has to solve the fundamental evaluation problem and overcome the possible … occurrence of selection bias. When using non-experimental data, different evaluation approaches can be thought of. The aim of … major topic in evaluation research in recent years, we will also assess the ability of each estimator to deal with it …

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. …