Persistently high unemployment, tight government budgets and the growing scepticism regarding the effects of active …

This paper evaluates the effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany. Since previous … empirical studies of these measures have been based on relatively small datasets and focussed on East Germany, this is the first …

countries spend significant shares of national resources on these measures, unemployment rates remain high or even increase. We …

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 …