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An evaluation of public employment programmes in the East German State of Sachsen-Anhalt

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Eichler, Martin
Lechner, Michael

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Volume (Year): 9 (2002)
Issue (Month): 2 (April)
Pages: 143-186
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  1. Lechner, Michael & Wunsch, Conny, 2006. "Active labour market policy in East Germany : waiting for the economy to take off," IAB Discussion Paper 200620, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany]. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Rodney Haddow & Steffen G. Schneider & Thomas R. Klassen, 2006. "Can Decentralization Alleviate Labour Market Dysfunctions in Marginal Jurisdictions? Active Labour Market Policies in Nova Scotia and Saxony-Anhalt," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 32(3), pages 317-338, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Jeffrey Smith & Petra Todd, 2003. "Does Matching Overcome Lalonde's Critique of Nonexperimental Estimators?," University of Western Ontario, CIBC Human Capital and Productivity Project Working Papers 20035, University of Western Ontario, CIBC Human Capital and Productivity Project. [Downloadable!]
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  4. Cockx, Bart & Ries, Jean, 2004. "The Exhaustion of Unemployment Benefits in Belgium: Does it Enhance the Probability of Employment?," IZA Discussion Papers 1177, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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  5. Eva Reinowski & Birgit Schultz & Jürgen Wiemers, 2003. "Evaluation von Maßnahmen der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik mit Hilfe eines iterativen Matching-Algorithmus Eine Fallstudie über langzeitarbeitslose Maßnahmeteilnehmer in Sachsen," IWH Discussion Papers 173, Halle Institute for Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
  6. Horst Feldmann, 2002. "Labour Market Policies in Transition: Lessons from East Germany," Post-Communist Economies, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 14(1), pages 47-84, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  7. Natália Pimenta Monteiro, 2004. "Using propensity matching estimators to evaluate the impact of privatisation on wages," NIPE Working Papers 12/2004, NIPE - Universidade do Minho. [Downloadable!]
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  8. Bergemann, Annette & van den Berg, Gerard, 2007. "Active labor market policy effects for women in Europe - a survey," Working Paper Series 2007:3, IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation. [Downloadable!]
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  9. Ruth Miquel, 2003. "Identification of Effects of Dynamic Treatments with a Difference-in-Differences Approach," University of St. Gallen Department of Economics working paper series 2003 2003-06, Department of Economics, University of St. Gallen. [Downloadable!]
  10. Lena Jacobi & Jochen Kluve, 2006. "Before and After the Hartz Reforms: The Performance of Active Labour Market Policy in Germany," IZA Discussion Papers 2100, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
  11. Cockx, Bart, 1999. "The Design of Active Labour Market Policies. What Matters and What Doesn't ?," Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES) Discussion Paper 1999035, Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES). [Downloadable!]
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