Evaluating the Employment Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany

Preface

Contents

1 Introduction

2 Some Notes on the Relevance of Job Creation Schemes in Germany

2.1 Overview

2.2 A Brief Characterisation of the German Labour Market Since German Unification

2.3 Labour Market Policy in Germany and the Institutional Set- Up of Job Creation Schemes

2.4 Experiences with Job Creation Schemes in East andWest Germany from Previous Microeconometric Empirical Studies

2.5 Possible Effects of Job Creation Schemes

2.6 Summary

3 The Methodological Framework of Evaluation

3.1 Overview

3.2 Evaluation Approach – The Static Binary Treatment Case

3.3 The Matching Estimator

3.4 Evaluation Approach – Extension to the Dynamic Setting

3.5 Some Aspects of Implementation

3.6 Summary

4 The Database

4.1 Overview

4.2 Data Sources of the Federal Employment Agency

4.3 Preparation of the Database for the Empirical Analysis

4.4 Summary

5 The Employment Effects of Job Creation Schemes for the Participating Individuals

5.1 Overview

5.2 Descriptive Results

5.3 Plausibility of the Conditional Independence Assumption in the Dynamic Setting

5.4 Implementation

5.5 Employment Effects of Job Creation Schemes

5.6 Summary

6 Identifying Effect Heterogeneity to Improve the Efficiency of Job Creation Schemes in Germany*

6.1 Overview

6.2 Some Estimation Details

6.3 Employment Effects of the Reference Groups

6.4 Allocation Mechanisms

6.5 Targeting

6.6 Summary

7 Conclusion

A Additional Material to Chapter 5

A.1 Tables

A.2 Figures

B Additional Material to Chapter 6

B.1 Tables

B.2 Figures

Abbreviations

List of Figures

List of Tables

References