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 …

estimate the impacts of ALMP in Germany for the time period 1999-2001 with regional data of 175 labour office districts. Due to … accounts especially for the inherent simultaneity problem of ALMP. For West Germany we find positive effects of vocational … training and job creation schemes on the labour market situation, whereas the results for East Germany do not allow profound …

Germany in the last decade. The effectiveness of the most important programs (in terms of participants and spending) such as … effectiveness of two start-up programs in East Germany. Our findings – even though partly preliminary – are rather promising … even in a labor market with structural problems such as the one in East Germany. …

to overcome such limitations for Germany by complementing administrative data from the Federal Employment Agency with … Germany from 2001 to 2008 and contains around 920,000 individuals. The complementary survey covers a panel of more than 17 …

administrative and survey data and observe participants in two distinct start-up programs in Germany for five years after start-up as …

recent years. If effective, this would not only reduce Germany’s persistently high unemployment rate, but also increase its … unemployed into self-employment may prove to be among the most effective, both in Germany and elsewhere. …