Rinne, Ulf; Uhlendorff, Arne; Zhao, Zhong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper studies the role of training vouchers and caseworkers in public training programs. Using a rich … administrative data set, we apply matching and regression methods to measure the effect of the Hartz reform in Germany, which … introduced training vouchers and imposed more selective criteria on participants. Besides estimating the overall reform effect …