occurring effect heterogeneity. Our findings show that job creation schemes do neither harm nor improve the labour market …

2001, we evaluate the effects of this active labour market policy programme on the employability of the participating … quarter of the unemployment spell. For East Germany, none of the groups experiences an improvement of the labour market …

Summary Job creation schemes (JCS) have been one important programme of active labour market policy (ALMP) in Germany … thorough microeconometric evaluation of these programmes was hindered by the fact, that available survey datasets have been too …

. Job creation schemes are a major element of active labour market policy in Germany and are targeted at long …

labour market policies (ALMP) are the basis for a growing interest in evaluating these measures. This paper intends to … explain the need for evaluation on the micro- and macroeconomic level, introduce the fundamental evaluation problem and … solutions to it, give an overview of the newer developments in evaluation literature and finally take a look on empirical …

Most evaluation studies of active labour market policies (ALMP) focus on the microeconometric evaluation approach using … a first step to a complete evaluation which has to be followed by an analysis on the macroeconomic level. As a starting … point for our analysis we discuss the effects of ALMP in a theoretical labour market framework augmented by ALMP. We …

The need to evaluate the performance of active labour market policies is not questioned any longer. Even though OECD … focus on microeconometric evaluation which has to solve the fundamental evaluation problem and overcome the possible … occurrence of selection bias. When using non-experimental data, different evaluation approaches can be thought of. The aim of …

This paper contributes to the literature on macroeconometric evaluation of active labour market policies (ALMP) by …

creation schemes have a significantly lower success probability on the labour market in comparison to matched non-participants. …