This paper reviews some of the most popular policy evaluation methods in empirical
microeconomics: social experiments, natural experiments, matching, instrumental variables …

This paper provides a meta‐analysis of microeconometric evaluation studies on the
effectiveness of active labor market policies. The analysis is built upon a systematically …

Interventions to improve the labour market outcomes of youth: A systematic review of training,
entrepreneurship promotion, employment services and subsidized employment …

Four alternative but related approaches to empirical evaluation of policy interventions are
studied: social experiments, natural experiments, matching methods, and instrumental …

When New Labour came to power in 1997, its leaders asked for it to be judged after ten
years on its success in making Britain'a more equal society'. As it approaches the end of an …

The recommendation to establish a Youth Guarantee was adopted by the Council in April
2013 in response to unprecedented levels of youth unemployment, which reached 23.5 per …

Abstract The European Youth Guarantee (YG) is one of the most innovative labour market
policies of recent years. It arrived at a time when an urgent and radical response was …

Youth unemployment has become a severe economic and societal problem in many
European countries. Based on the existing empirical evidence on different policy options …

We investigate the extent and type of state dependence in labor market outcomes for young
low-skilled Australians. Our model allows for three labor force states, employment …

We estimate the effects of hiring subsidies for older workers on transitions from
unemployment to employment in Germany. Using a natural experiment, our first set of …