effects of the most important type of public sector sponsored training in Germany, namely the provision of specific … Germany compared to East Germany. …

The so-called Hartz reform has introduced fundamental changes for publicly sponsored training in Germany. This concerns …

estimates the long-run differential employment effects of three different types of training programs in West Germany. We use …

processes in West Germany. The empirical analysis is based on regional data for local employment office districts for the period …

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 …

administrative data set, we apply matching and regression methods to measure the effect of the Hartz reform in Germany, which … important type of training in Germany, we find a slightly positive impact of the reform. Our decomposition results suggest that …

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 …

In this paper we evaluate the employment effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany …. Job creation schemes are a major element of active labour market policy in Germany and are targeted at long …