recent years. If effective, this would not only reduce Germany's persistently high unemployment rate, but also increase its … the unemployed into self-employment may prove to be among the most effective, both in Germany and elsewhere …

to overcome such limitations for Germany by complementing administrative data from the Federal Employment Agency with … Germany from 2001 to 2008 and contains around 920,000 individuals. The complementary survey covers a panel of more than 17 …

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

In East Germany, active labour market policies (ALMPs) are used on a large scale to contain fast rising unemployment …

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 …

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

This study analyzes the employment effects of training in East Germany. We propose and apply an extension of the widely …