Despite widespread popular concern about what it means to be over 40 and unemployed,
little attention has been paid in the literature to clarifying the role of age within the job …

Active Labor Market Programs are widely used in European countries, but despite many
econometric evaluation studies analyzing particular programs no conclusive cross-country …

We investigate the finite sample properties of a large number of estimators for the average
treatment effect on the treated that are suitable when adjustment for observed covariates is …

Having faced high unemployment rates for more than a decade, the German government
implemented a comprehensive set of labour market reforms during the period 2003-2005 …

Abstract Measures of Active Labor Market Policy are widely used in European countries, but
despite many econometric evaluation studies no conclusive cross-country evidence exists …

The objective of this systematic review was to study the effectiveness of Active Labour
Market Programmes (ALMP) participation on employment status for unemployment …

We propose a regression-adjusted matched difference-in-differences framework to estimate
pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns to adult education. This approach combines kernel …

We analyse the effects of government-sponsored training for the unemployed conducted
during East German transition. For the microeconometric analysis, we use a new, large and …

Measures of Active Labor Market Policy are widely used in European countries, but despite
many econometric evaluation studies no conclusive cross-country evidence exists …

This article investigates how precisely short-term, job search-oriented training programs as
opposed to long-term, human capital intensive training programs work. We evaluate and …