TY - UNPD A1 - Caliendo, Marco A1 - Hujer, Reinhard A1 - Thomsen, Stephan L. T1 - Identifying effect heterogeneity to improve the effiency of job creation schemes in Germany? T2 - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung: Discussion paper ; No. [20]05,21 : Labour economics, human resources and social policy N2 - Previous empirical studies of job creation schemes in Germany have shown that the average effects for the participating individuals are negative. However, we find that this is not true for all strata of the population. Identifying individual characteristics that are responsible for the effect heterogeneity and using this information for a better allocation of individuals therefore bears some scope for improving programme efficiency. We present several stratification strategies and discuss the occurring effect heterogeneity. Our findings show that job creation schemes do neither harm nor improve the labour market chances for most of the groups. Exceptions are long-term unemployed men in West and long-term unemployed women in East and West Germany who benefit from participation in terms of higher employment rates. JEL: C13 , J68 , H43 KW - Deutschland KW - Evaluation KW - Arbeitsmarktpolitik KW - Active Labour Market Policy KW - Targeting KW - Efficient Allocation KW - Effect Heterogeneity Y1 - 2005 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3174 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-22266 ER -