the aims of these programs are clear – a fast reintegrationinto employment or enrollment in further education – a … availability ofprograms. Our results indicate positive long-term employment effects for nearly all measuresaimed at labor market … beharmful for the medium-term employment prospects and ineffective in the long-run. Ouranalysis further indicates that the …

the aims of these programs are clear – a fast re-integration into employment or enrollment in further education – a … availability of programs. Our results indicate positive long-term employment effects for nearly all measures aimed at labor market … to show any impact on employment outcomes until the end of our observation period. Public sector job creation is found to …

courses, job search assistance and monitoring, subsidized employment, and public work programs. For policy makers, it is of … their effectiveness in practice. Overall, the findings with respect to employment outcomes are only partly promising. While … impact of ALMP on furthering education participation as well as employment quality is scarce, requiring additional research …

raises the question of why only minor shares of unemployed job seekers relocate in order to find employment. The German …

Support schemes for unemployed aiming for self-employment have been recently reformedseveral times. In 2003, the start …

Turning unemployment into self-employment has become a major focus of German activelabour market policy (ALMP) in …

to overcome such limitations for Germany by complementing administrative data from the Federal Employment Agency with …