deals with the question whether ALMP improves the matching-process between job-seekers and vacancies and thus increases the … former programme participants. The result from our augmented matching function shows that the lock-in effect is also present … matching process. However, this effect varies largely between different types of programmes. Positive effects occur for long …

linear matching based on the estimated propensity score to estimate the average treatment effect on the treated of SPST … Germany compared to East Germany. -- training program ; employment effects ; administrative data ; matching …

dynamic stochastic search-matching model with heterogeneous workers, where aggregate shocks to productivity fuel up the cycle …

reforms in boosting the German economy. Considering that one of the main objectives of the reforms was to improve the matching … process on the labour market, I use rich, high-frequency, and recent administrative panel data to present new details … regarding the development of job-matching performance before and after the reform years. The results show that matching …

wage loss. Collectively, the sorting and matching channels explain almost all of the Hartz reforms' effect on post …

This paper shows that a search and matching model with idiosyncratic training cost shocks can explain the asymmetric … movement of the job-finding rate over the business cycle and the decline of matching efficiency in recessions. Large negative … tightness. Our model explains a large fraction of the matching efficiency decline during the Great Recession and generates state …

and social security records. We apply a matching estimator adapted for the case of multiple programmes. We find …