@techreport{Fertig2000Discretionary,
abstract = {This paper provides a preliminary assessment of recent reforms of German employment
promotion policy. While several recent studies analyze the impact of measures of employment
promotion for the case of Germany, no comparable study exists on the aggregate level, thus
precluding any assessment of the overall impact of such measures. The reform of 1998
recognized for the first time in the history of German employment promotion that evaluation
should be an integral part of the delivery of policy interventions. Yet, while this has led to an
important first step \textendash{} the systematic collection of data \textendash{} evaluation itself has mistakenly been
understood by the legislator as a pure accounting exercise. We discuss this problem from the
perspective of the recent evaluation literature in economics and statistics, thus providing a frame
of reference for performing credible scientific evaluation of employment promotion policy.},
author = {Michael Fertig and Christoph M. Schmidt},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {R23; H43; J68; 330; Sozialgesetzbuch; evaluation; observational studies; Arbeitsmarktpolitik; Reform; Wirtschaftspolitische Wirkungsanalyse; Wissenschaftliche Methode; Theorie; Deutschland},
language = {eng},
number = {182},
title = {Discretionary Measures of Active Labor Market Policy: The German Employment Promotion Reform in Perspective},
type = {IZA Discussion paper series},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/21025},
year = {2000}
}
