A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour … combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find …

: intervention works prolong unemployment for both genders as do public works for men. The number of observations on women in public …

heterogeneity into account. Our results indicate that participation in JCSs increases the unemployment duration mainly due to … leave unemployment quicker than other groups, which results in highly skilled women benefiting from participation. However …, we find no significant impact on post-unemployment employment stability. Our results are robust to allowing for random …

. The effects of training programmes on the outflows from unemployment and the effects of all ALMP programmes on the … gives some tentative support to the view that public training programmes can be used to reduce unemployment. …

of labor market reform on unemployment, growth, and welfare. The model has a large number of risk-averse households who … can invest in risk-free physical capital and risky human capital. Unemployed households receive unemployment benefits and … employment effects: the equilibrium unemployment rate has been reduced by approximately 1.1 percentage points from 7.5 to 6 …

immigrant welfare recipients. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between immigrants and natives and … effects are more adverse for natives, but the program does not help otherwise identical immigrants to leave the welfare system … immigrants. -- Immigrants ; employment programs ; evaluation ; decomposition of effects ; Germany …

cause these potential differences. In a first step, we evaluate program effects separately for immigrants and natives using … differences related to an immigrant fixed effect in a second step. -- Immigrants ; short-term training programs ; evaluation …