"This paper estimates the effects of several German labor market programs - starting in March 2003 - on the employment outcomes of participants using propensity score matching. The main objective is to compare estimated average treatment effects for treatment and comparison groups, which vary in...

"In 2005 major reforms of the means-tested unemployment benefit system were implemented in Germany. One element of the reforms was to activate benefit recipients by a workfare programme, the so-called One-Euro-Job programme. More than 600,000 benefit recipients entered this programme in the year...

"Im Zuge der letzten Stufe der jüngsten Arbeitsmarktreformen wurden zum 01.01.2005 die Sozialen Arbeitsgelegenheiten eingeführt. Es handelt sich um eine öffentlich finanzierte und zeitlich befristete Beschäftigungsform, die erwerbsfähige Hilfebedürftige wieder an den Arbeitsmarkt...

"A major unemployment and welfare benefit reform took place in Germany in 2005. One objective of this reform was to more strongly encourage an adult worker model of the family, with an emphasis on activating the formerly inactive. Our hypothesis is, however, that assignments to activation...

"Die Integration von arbeitsuchenden Personen in den Arbeitsmarkt gehört zu den wichtigsten Aufgaben der Arbeitsmarktpolitik. Aktive Arbeitsmarktpolitik wie z. B. die Fort- und Weiterbildung von Arbeitsuchenden soll dabei helfen. Aber erst in diesem Jahrtausend wurde die Analyse der Wirkungen...

"Sequential strategies of assigning persons to different subsequent programmes play an important role in the activation of unemployed people through active labour market programmes. Especially for unemployment benefit II recipients it could be necessary to participate in different programmes to...

"One-Euro-Jobs were introduced with the intention of improving the employment prospects of hard-to-place unemployed. However, there is a certain risk of within-firm substitution and between-firm displacement of regular employment by One-Euro-Jobs. The aim of the study is to identify potential...

"This paper examines participation in labor market programs such as job subsidies, workfare, and training programs by lone mothers receiving means-tested unemployment benefits in Germany. Since the 2005 Hartz IV labor market policy reforms, expectations that non-employed parents responsible for...

"This paper investigates in-firm transitions from so-called 'one-euro-jobs' to regular employment. One-euro-jobs are an important workfare instrument of German labour market policy and are meant to increase employability of long-term unemployed persons, enabling them to apply for regular jobs...

"This article provides a result-oriented view on the current status of German active labor market policy evaluation. The literature shows that nearly all groups of instruments positively affect the labor market prospects of at least particular groups of participants. However, regarding the...