Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35814 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3767
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Evaluation of active labour market programmes
propensity score matching
common support problem
JEL: 
J68
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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