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 …

Previous empirical studies of job creation schemes in Germany have shown that the average effects for the participating … West Germany who benefit from participation in terms of higher employment rates. …

on the individual unemployment duration in West Germany. By applying a multivariate mixed proportional hazards model, we …