Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/84146 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 4392
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the link between variation in the supply of workers who participate in specific types of active labour market policies (ALMPs) and firm performance using a new exceptionally informative German employer-employee data base. For identification we exploit that German local employment agencies (LEAs) have a high degree of autonomy in determining their own mix of ALMPs and that firms' hiring regions overlap only imperfectly with the areas of responsibility of the LEAs. Our results indicate that in general firms do not benefit from ALMPs and in some cases may even be harmed by certain programs, in particular by subsidized employment and longer training programs. These findings complement the negative assessment of the cost-effectiveness of ALMPs from the empirical literature on the effects for participants.
Subjects: 
subsidized employment programs
training programs
regional variation
program evaluation
JEL: 
J68
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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