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Provides an overview of the microeconometric evaluation methods for evaluation of labour market and other public policies. This book focuses on the propensity score matching method and gives guidance for its implementation. It uses this method to evaluate the employment effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany

doctoral Universität, Frankfurt

Includes bibliographical references

Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Symbols -- Introduction -- Part I: Microeconometric Evaluation Methods -- 1 Introduction in Programme Evaluation -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Evaluation Framework -- 1.3 How Do Randomised Experiments Solve the Evaluation Problem? -- 1.4 Evaluation Estimators -- 1.5 The Principle of Unconfoundedness -- 1.6 Summary -- Which Estimator to Choose? -- 2 The Evaluation of Policy Interventions with Matching Estimators -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Balancing Property of the Propensity Score -- 2.3 Alternative Matching Estimators -- 2.4 Matching on Covariates -- 2.5 Combination of Matching with Other Methods -- 2.6 Effciency and Large-Sample Properties of Matching Estimators -- 2.7 Which Matching Estimator to Choose? -- 3 Some Practical Guidance for the Implementation of Propensity Score Matching Estimators -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Implementation of Matching Estimators -- 3.3 Sensitivity Analysis with Rosenbaum Bounds -- 3.4 More Practical Issues -- 3.5 Conclusion -- Part II: The Evaluation of Job Creation Schemes in Germany -- 4 The German Labour Market and Active Labour Market Policies -- A Brief Overview -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Institutional Setup and Instruments -- 4.3 Previous Empirical Studies -- 4.4 Dataset Used in our Analysis -- 4.5 Outline of the Empirical Analysis -- 5 Microeconometric Evaluation of Job Creation Schemes -- Part I: Individual and Regional Heterogeneity -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Groups of Analysis and Selected Descriptives -- 5.3 Implementation of the Matching Estimator -- 5.4 Results -- 5.5 Conclusion -- 6 Microeconometric Evaluation of Job Creation Schemes -- Part II: Programme Heterogeneity -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Groups of Analysis and Selected Descriptives -- 6.3 Implementation of the Propensity Score Matching -- 6.4 Results -- 6.5 Conclusions -- 7 Conclusions and Outlook -- A: Additional Material to Chapter 4 -- B: Additional Material to Chapter 5 -- C: Additional Material to Chapter 6 -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- References -- Last Page

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