effective way to increase employment probabilities and income of participants. Most of the studies are using matching estimators …

perform matching estimations to analyse the treatment effect on the treated. In the cross-section estimation, we find …-participants. Therefore, we combine matching with difference-in-difference estimation (to control for unobserved heterogeneity), Doing so, we … matching estimation can be decomposed into a causal effect (6%-points), correlated unobserved heterogeneity and negative spill …

. Only wage mechanisms that allow for ex post competition generate the maximum matching on a realized network. We show that …

This paper quantifies the impact of the Hartz reforms on matching efficiency, using monthly SOEP gross worker flows … the outflow rate (job finding) has been steadily increasing. This indicates that matching efficiency has improved … substantially in recent years. Results from an estimated matching function - pointing to efficiency gains of more than 20 …

"bad" times but upwardly flexible during "good". In this paper we use an administrative panel dataset from Germany to … generate the asymmetric wage cyclicality found in the panel data. The model also can match most of the properties of wages and …

based on a SVAR estimation,which uses an elasticity of the German establishment panel for identification purposes. The model …