This paper provides a comprehensive account of the regulations governing the systems of unemployment support and social assistance in post-transition Poland. To provide a solid foundation for a discussion of these issues, the paper extensively characterizes the Polish force in terms of the...

Despite the considerable effort and the large financial expenditures spent on measures of Active Labor Market Policy in Germany, relatively little is known about their actual impact. To the contrary, past evaluation efforts typically failed to construct a credible counterfactual situation a...

It is often argued that the labor market outcomes of several "problem groupsʺ of German workers suffer disproportionately in an economic downturn. These groups are women, the unskilled, and young and old workers, respectively. Using monthly individual-level data for West Germany for the period...

Since interventions by the public sector generally commit substantial societal resources, the evaluation of effects and costs of policy interventions is imperative. This paper outlines why program evaluation should follow well-respected scientific standards and why it should be performed by...

Using a retrospective monthly calendarium of individuals' major economic activities, this paper characterizes the monthly employment and unemployment rates and the monthly transition intensities between the states of employment, unemployment, and out-of-thelabor- force for the German labor...

Die empirischeWirtschaftsforschung hat in Deutschland im Verlauf der letzten Jahre deutlich an Boden gegenüber der internationalen Konkurrenz gewonnen. Einen wichtigen Anteil daran hatte die Weiterentwicklung der außeruniversitären Forschung.Dabei haben insbesondere die Institute der...

Im Januar hat eine unabhängige Expertenkommission unser Institut begangen und so im Auftrag der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft turnusgemäß unsere Arbeit bewertet. Deren Evaluierungsbericht erwarten wir in gespannter Zuversicht. Vor kurzem wurde nun in der Öffentlichkeit bekannt, dass eines der...