In this paper, we examine the heterogeneous treatment effects of a universal child care (preschool) program in Germany …

This paper focuses on the effects of vocational training programmes on the duration of unemployment in Eastern Germany …

(ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed … previous jobs. Based on conditional propensity score matching methods we estimate the long-term effects of the programs against …

In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income during job search by taking up …

restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment …Our paper analyzes the role of public employment agencies in job matching, in particular the effects of the … Employment Agency did not contribute to the decline of unemployment in Germany. By contrast, improved activation of unemployed …

. Using propensity score matching (PSM) as our main empirical approach, we provide estimates of long-term effects of the post …

This paper investigates the macroeconomic effects of short term training measures on the matching processes in West … Germany. The empirical analysis is based on regional data for local employment office districts for the period from January … 2003 to December 2004. The empirical model relies on a dynamic version of a matching function augmented by short term …

Starting in January 2003, Germany implemented the first two so-called Hartz reforms, followed by the third and fourth …, in speeding up the matching process between unemployed and vacant jobs. The analysis is conceptually rooted in the flow …-based view underlying the reforms, estimating the structural features of the matching process. The results indicate that the …