TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Stephan, Gesine
AU  - Pahnke, André
        TI  - The Relative Effectiveness of Selected Active Labour Market Programmes and the Common Support Problem
        PY  - 2008/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 3767
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp3767
        AB  - For Germany, we analyse the (relative) effects of participation in several active labour market programmes on the employment prospects of participants. First, our results show that different matching algorithms result in different severe problems of common support. Second, we obtain favourable effects of participation in training programmes, which is not true for job creation schemes. Third, while lock-in effects are smaller for shorter programmes, long retraining shows mainly positive effects compared to shorter training at the end of the observation period. Fourth, participants in job creation schemes are too different from participants in training programmes to conduct a reliable comparison.
        KW  - evaluation of active labour market programmes
KW  - propensity score matching
KW  - common support problem
        ER  -