The Relative Effectiveness of Selected Active Labour Market Programmes

mon support problem. Abstract: For Germany, we analyse the (relative) effects of participation in several active la-bour market programmes on the employment prospects of participants. First, our results show that different matching algorithms result in different severe problems of common support. Sec-ond, we obtain favourable effects of participation in training programmes, which is not true for job creation schemes. Third, while lock-in effects are smaller for shorter programmes, long retraining shows mainly positive effects compared to shorter training at the end of the observa-tion period. Fourth, participants in job creation schemes are too different from participants in training programmes to conduct a reliable comparison