Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung

14.15 - 15.15

Keynote I

• Jeffrey Smith (University of Michigan)
  Performance Management as Evaluation
  Presentation
  

Session I "Training Vouchers"

• Burt Barnow (Johns Hopkins University)
  Vouchers in U.S. Vocational Training Programs: An Overview of What We Have Learned
  Paper
  Presentation
  
  
• Thomas Kruppe (IAB)
  Selectivity by the Use of Training Vouchers: The Case of Germany
  Paper
  Presentation
  
• Ulf Rinne / Arne Uhlendorff / Zhong Zhao (IZA)
  Vouchers, Caseworkers and the Reform: Public Training Programs in Germany
  Paper
  

Discussion Panel "Market mechanisms in Germany's active labor market policy"

• Kurt Berlinger (German Federal Employment Agency)
  Presentation
  
• Michael Müntnich (German Federal Employment Agency)
• Robert Völter (German Federal Ministry of Finance)
  Presentation
  

Session II "Contracting-out"

• Alex Corra (University of Groningen) / Mirjam Plantinga
  Analyzing Modes of Contracting in the Dutch Private Reintegration Market
  Paper
  Presentation
  
• Sarah Bernhard (IAB) / Joachim Wolff
  Contracting out Placement Services in Germany
  Paper
  Presentation
  

10.15 - 11.15

Session III "Performance Standards and Incentives"

• Margaretha Buurman (Erasmus University Rotterdam) / Robert Dur
  Incentives and the Sorting of Altruistic Agents into Street-Level Bureaucracies
  Paper
  Presentation
  
• Pascal Courty (European University Institute, Florenze) / Do Han Kim / Gerald Marschke
  Curbing cream-skimming: Evidence on enrollment incentives
  Paper
  
  

Keynote II

• Carolyn Heinrich (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  The Dynamics of Contracting Out and Performance Management
  in Third-Party Public Services Provision
  Presentation