%0 Report %A Hujer, Reinhard %A Caliendo, Marco %T Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policy: Methodological Concepts and Empirical Estimates %D 2000 %8 2000 Dec %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) %C Bonn %7 IZA Discussion Paper %N 236 %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp236 %X Persistently high unemployment, tight government budgets and the growing scepticism regarding the effects of active 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 estimations of ALMP effects. %K evaluation %K matching %K difference-in-differences %K Active labour market policy