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Macroeconomic Impacts of ALMP on the Matching Process in West Germany

Hujer, Reinhard; Zeiss, Christopher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper investigates the macroeconomic effects of job creation schemes and vocational training on the matching … from 1999 to 2003. The empirical model relies on a dynamic version of a matching function augmented by ALMP. In order to … results obtained from our estimates indicate that vocational training does not significantly affect the matching process and …

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Macroeconometric Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies in Germany - A Dynamic Panel Approach Using Regional Data

Hujer, Reinhard; Blien, Uwe; Caliendo, Marco; Zeiss, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Most evaluation studies of active labour market policies (ALMP) focus on the microeconometric evaluation approach using individual data. However, as the microeconometric approach usually ignores impacts on the non-participants, it should be seen as a first step to a complete evaluation which has...

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The Microeconometric Estimation of Treatment Effects - An Overview

Caliendo, Marco; Hujer, Reinhard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

The need to evaluate the performance of active labour market policies is not questioned any longer. Even though OECD countries spend significant shares of national resources on these measures, unemployment rates remain high or even increase. We focus on microeconometric evaluation which has to...

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New Evidence on the Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany – A Matching Approach with Threefold Heterogeneity

Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco; Thomsen, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

justifies the application of a matching estimator but also allows to take account of threefold heterogeneity. The recently …

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Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policy: Methodological Concepts and Empirical Estimates

Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

Persistently high unemployment, tight government budgets and the growing scepticism regarding the effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) are the basis for a growing interest in evaluating these measures. This paper intends to explain the need for evaluation on the micro- and...

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The Employment Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany: A Microeconometric Evaluation

Caliendo, Marco; Hujer, Reinhard; Thomsen, Stephan L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

justifies the application of a matching estimator and allows to account for individual (group-specific) and regional effect … decisions which have to be made during implementation of the matching estimator, e.g. choosing the matching algorithm or …

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