New evidence on the effects of job creation schemes in Germany - a matching approach with threefold heterogeneity

authored by

Reinhard Hujer, Marco Caliendo, Stephan L. Thomsen

Abstract

This paper evaluates the effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany. The very informative dataset at hand justifies the application of a matching estimator and allows to take account of threefold heterogeneity. The recently developed multiple treatment framework is used to evaluate the effects with respect to regional and individual heterogeneity as well as to differences in the programme sectors. The results show considerable differences with respect to these sources of heterogeneity, but the overall finding is very clear. At the end of our observation period, that is 2 years after the start of the programmes, participants in job creation schemes have a significantly lower success probability on the labour market in comparison to matched non-participants.

External Organisation(s)

Goethe University Frankfurt
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Type

Article

Journal

Research in Economics

Volume

58

Pages

257-302

No. of pages

46

ISSN

1090-9443

Publication date

14.11.2004

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Economics and Econometrics

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rie.2004.07.001 (Access: Closed)
http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/files/3167/New_Evidence_Revised.pdf (Access: Open)