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

can improve the matching efficiency. We analyse quarterly panel data of German job centres in the period 2006 to 2011 and … outcomes, much fewer studies are concerned with effects of these policies on the regional matching-process between job seekers … matching-function framework by applying the system generalized methods of moments estimator. Our results point to positive …

linear matching based on the estimated propensity score to estimate the average treatment effect on the treated of SPST …

-Anhalt, the econometric analysis can use a new and large panel, the Arbeitsmarktmonitor Sachsen-Anhalt. We aim at nonparametric …

linear matching based on the estimated propensity score to estimate the average treatment effect on the treated of SPST …

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 …

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 …

. Considering that one of the main objectives of these reforms was to improve the matching process on the labour market, I use high …-frequency administrative data to present new details regarding the development of job-matching performance from 2000 to 2011. Matching … productivity increased during all reform stages. Increases in matching productivity have become smaller from 2009. The analysis …

propensity score matching methods we extend the picture that has been sketched in previous studies by estimating treatment …