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47 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16033
What Works for the Unemployed? Evidence from Quasi-Random Caseworker Assignments
Anders Humlum, Jakob R. Munch, Mette Rasmussen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15011
The Intended and Unintended Effects of Promoting Labor Market Mobility
Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Robert Mahlstedt
published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 29 November 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14026
Mandatory Integration Agreements for Unemployed Job Seekers: A Randomized Controlled Field Experiment in Germany
Gerard J. van den Berg, Barbara Hofmann, Gesine Stephan, Arne Uhlendorff
forthcoming in: International Economic Review, 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13618
The Intergenerational Effects of Requiring Unemployment Benefit Recipients to Engage in Non-Search Activities
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Anne C. Gielen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13478
Can Subsidized Employment Tackle Long-Term Unemployment? Experimental Evidence from North Macedonia
Alex Armand, Pedro Carneiro, Federico Tagliati, Yiming Xia
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13170
Improving Job Search Skills: A Field Experiment on Online Employment Assistance
Guglielmo Briscese, Giulio Zanella, Veronica Quinn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12835
Reciprocity and the Interaction between the Unemployed and the Caseworker
Gerard J. van den Berg, Iris Kesternich, Gerrit Müller, Bettina M. Siflinger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11766
Does Job Search Assistance Really Raise Employment?
Lionel Cottier, Yves Flückiger, Pierre Kempeneers, Rafael Lalive
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10655
How Effective Are Active Labor Market Policies in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence
David McKenzie
published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2017, 32(2), 127-54
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10369
Job Creation Schemes in Turbulent Times
Annette Bergemann, Laura Pohlan, Arne Uhlendorff
revised version published as 'The Impact of Participation in Job Creation Schemes in Turbulent Times' in: Labour Economics, 2017, 47, 182-201
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10263
Do Youth Employment Programs Improve Labor Market Outcomes? A Systematic Review
Jochen Kluve, Olga Susana Puerto, David A. Robalino, Jose M. Romero, Friederike Rother, Jonathan Stöterau, Felix Weidenkaff, Marc J. Witte
published as 'Do youth employment programs improve labor market outcomes? A quantitative review' in: World Development, 2019, 114, 237 - 253
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9782
Nonparametric Instrumental Variable Methods for Dynamic Treatment Evaluation
Gerard J. van den Berg, Petyo Bonev, Enno Mammen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9236
What Works? A Meta Analysis of Recent Active Labor Market Program Evaluations
David Card, Jochen Kluve, Andrea Weber
revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018, 16 (3), 894 - 931
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9183
The Return to Labor Market Mobility: An Evaluation of Relocation Assistance for the Unemployed
Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Robert Mahlstedt
revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 148, 136-151
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9134
How to Fight Long-Term Unemployment: Lessons from Germany
Alexander Spermann
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015, 4:15
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8551
Can Active Labor Market Policy Be Counter-Productive?
Gilles Saint-Paul
Research in Economics, 69, 26-36
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8337
Unobservable, but Unimportant? The Influence of Personality Traits (and Other Usually Unobserved Variables) for the Evaluation of Labor Market Policies
Marco Caliendo, Robert Mahlstedt, Oscar A. Mitnik
substantially revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 46, 14-25.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8193
Do Interventions Targeted at Micro-Entrepreneurs and Small and Medium-Sized Firms Create Jobs? A Systematic Review of the Evidence for Low and Middle Income Countries
Michael Grimm, Anna Luisa Paffhausen
published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 32, 67-85
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7740
Structural Empirical Evaluation of Job Search Monitoring
Gerard J. van den Berg, Bas van der Klaauw
published in: International Economic Review, 2019, 60 (2), 879-903
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6476
To Meet or Not to Meet (Your Case Worker) – That is the Question
Gerard J. van den Berg, Lene Kjaersgaard, Michael Rosholm
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6369
The Evaluation of Immigration Policies
Ulf Rinne
published in: Amelie F. Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, Chapter 28, 530-551
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6222
Fighting Youth Unemployment: The Effects of Active Labor Market Policies
Marco Caliendo, Steffen Künn, Ricarda Schmidl
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5491
The Impact of the UK New Deal for Lone Parents on Benefit Receipt
Peter Dolton, Jeffrey A. Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5485
The Threat Effect of Participation in Active Labor Market Programs on Job Search Behavior of Migrants in Germany
Annette Bergemann, Marco Caliendo, Gerard J. van den Berg, Klaus F. Zimmermann
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2011, 32 (7), 777-795
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4680
Policies to Create and Destroy Human Capital in Europe
James J. Heckman, Bas Jacobs
published in: Hans-Werner Sinn and Edmund Phelps (eds.), Perspectives on the Performance of the Continental Economies, MIT Press, 2011, 253-322
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4638
Quick Job Entry or Long-Term Human Capital Development? The Dynamic Effects of Alternative Training Schemes
Aderonke Osikominu
revised version published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2013, 80 (1), 313-342
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4002
Active Labor Market Policy Evaluations: A Meta-Analysis
David Card, Jochen Kluve, Andrea Weber
published in: The Economic Journal, 2010, 120, F452-F477
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3910
Vouchers and Caseworkers in Public Training Programs: Evidence from the Hartz Reform in Germany
Ulf Rinne, Arne Uhlendorff, Zhong Zhao
revised version published as 'Vouchers and Caseworkers in Training Programs for the Unemployed' in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 45 (3), 1089-1127
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3825
The Effect of Active Labor Market Programs on Not-Yet Treated Unemployed Individuals
Gerard J. van den Berg, Annette Bergemann, Marco Caliendo
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 606-616
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3404
Individual Incentives in Program Participation: Splitting up the Process in Assignment and Enrollment
Andrea Weber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3240
Too Bad to Benefit? Effect Heterogeneity of Public Training Programs
Ulf Rinne, Marc Schneider, Arne Uhlendorff
revised version published as 'Do the skilled and prime-aged unemployed benefit more from training? Effect heterogeneity of public training programmes in Germany' in: Applied Economics, 2011, 43 (25), 3465-3494
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3092
Does the Order and Timing of Active Labor Market Programs Matter?
Michael Lechner, Stephan Wiehler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2740
Kids or Courses? Gender Differences in the Effects of Active Labor Market Policies
Michael Lechner, Stephan Wiehler
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (3), 783-812
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2605
Dann waren's nur noch vier… Wie viele (und welche) Maßnahmen der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik brauchen wir noch? Eine Bilanz nach der Evaluation der Hartz-Reformen
Werner Eichhorst, Klaus F. Zimmermann
published as ,And Then There Were Four… How Many (and Which) Measures of Active Labor Market Policy Do We Still Need?' English version; in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2007, 53 (3), 243-272
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2505
Employment Regulation and Labor Market Policy in Germany, 1991-2005
Bernhard Ebbinghaus, Werner Eichhorst
published in: Paul de Beer and Trudie Schils (eds.), The Labour Market Triangle Employment Protection, Unemployment Compensation and Activation in Europe, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2009, 119-144
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2489
Macroeconomic Effects of Short-Term Training Measures on the Matching Process in Western Germany
Reinhard Hujer, Christopher Zeiss
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2355
Are Training Programs More Effective When Unemployment Is High?
Michael Lechner, Conny Wunsch
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2009, 27 (4), 653-692
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2109
Deregulating Job Placement in Europe: A Microeconometric Evaluation of an Innovative Voucher Scheme in Germany
Henrik Winterhager, Anja Heinze, Alexander Spermann
published in: Labour Economics, 2006, 13 (4), 505-517
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2018
The Effectiveness of European Active Labor Market Policy
Jochen Kluve
revised version published as 'The effectiveness of European active labor market programs' in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (6), 904-918
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1848
Evaluating the Dynamic Employment Effects of Training Programs in East Germany Using Conditional Difference-in-Differences
Annette Bergemann, Bernd Fitzenberger, Stefan Speckesser
revised version published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2009, 24 (5), 797-823
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1796
Counseling the Unemployed: Does It Lower Unemployment Duration and Recurrence?
Bruno Crépon, Muriel Dejemeppe, Marc Gurgand
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1099
A Conceptual Framework for the Evaluation of Comprehensive Labor Market Policy Reforms in Germany
Michael Fertig, Jochen Kluve
published in: Applied Economics Quarterly Supplement, 2004, 55, 83-112
IZA Discussion Paper No. 527
The Locking-in Effect of Subsidized Jobs
Jan C. van Ours
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2004, 32 (1), 37-55
IZA Discussion Paper No. 374
Counseling and Monitoring of Unemployed Workers: Theory and Evidence from a Controlled Social Experiment
Gerard J. van den Berg, Bas van der Klaauw
published in: International Economic Review, 2006, 47 (3), 895-936
IZA Discussion Paper No. 355
Disentangling Treatment Effects of Polish Active Labor Market Policies: Evidence from Matched Samples
Jochen Kluve, Hartmut Lehmann, Christoph M. Schmidt
revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (6), 1270-1295
IZA Discussion Paper No. 149
The Impact of Active Labor Market Programs and Benefit Entitlement Rules on the Duration of Unemployment
Rafael Lalive, Jan C. van Ours, Josef Zweimüller
published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (525), 235–257
IZA Discussion Paper No. 121
Do Active Labor Market Policies Help Unemployed Workers to Find and Keep Regular Jobs?
Jan C. van Ours
published in: Michael Lechner and Friedhelm Pfeiffer (eds.), Econometric Evaluation of Labour Market Policies, Physica-Verlag (2001), 125-152
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