@misc{CaliendoSchmidl2016, author = {Caliendo, Marco and Schmidl, Ricarda}, title = {Youth unemployment and active labor market policies in Europe}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe}, number = {125}, issn = {1867-5808}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-43695}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-436950}, pages = {32}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Since the economic crisis in 2008, European youth unemployment rates have been persistently high at around 20\% on average. The majority of European countries spends significant resources each year on active labor market programs (ALMP) with the aim of improving the integration prospects of struggling youths. Among the most common programs used are training courses, job search assistance and monitoring, subsidized employment, and public work programs. For policy makers, it is of upmost importance to know which of these programs work and which are able to achieve the intended goals - may it be the integration into the first labor market or further education. Based on a detailed assessment of the particularities of the youth labor market situation, we discuss the pros and cons of different ALMP types. We then provide a comprehensive survey of the recent evidence on the effectiveness of these ALMP for youth in Europe, highlighting factors that seem to promote or impede their effectiveness in practice. Overall, the findings with respect to employment outcomes are only partly promising. While job search assistance (with and without monitoring) results in overwhelmingly positive effects, we find more mixed effects for training and wage subsidies, whereas the effects for public work programs are clearly negative. The evidence on the impact of ALMP on furthering education participation as well as employment quality is scarce, requiring additional research and allowing only limited conclusions so far.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Wilhelm2012, author = {Wilhelm, Jan Lorenz}, title = {Wozu Evaluation? Organisationssysteme bewerten Stadtteilf{\"o}rderung mit Kalk{\"u}l}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-187-5}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-59833}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {302}, year = {2012}, abstract = {In den letzten 20 Jahren sind Evaluationen Schritt f{\"u}r Schritt zu einem festen und gleichzeitig kontrovers diskutierten Bestandteil politischer F{\"o}rderung geworden. Auf der Basis langj{\"a}hriger Beobachtungen der Evaluationspraxis des F{\"o}rderprogramms „Soziale Stadt" zeigt dieses Buch zun{\"a}chst, dass Evaluationst{\"a}tigkeiten in Ministerien, Kommunalverwaltungen und Planungsb{\"u}ros mit ganz unterschiedlichen Erwartungen, Herausforderungen, Widerspr{\"u}chen und Irritationen verkn{\"u}pft werden. Evaluationen werden dabei sowohl als Hoffnungstr{\"a}ger, als auch als Schreckgespenst gesehen. Der Autor nimmt diese Beobachtungen zum Anlass, den Umgang mit Evaluationen in politischen Organisationen kritisch zu hinterfragen und systematisch zu erkl{\"a}ren. Reduziert auf die Frage „Wozu Evaluation?" wird auf der Basis eines systemtheoretischen Zugangs erkl{\"a}rt, welche unterschiedlichen Funktionen Evaluationen in Organisationen erf{\"u}llen k{\"o}nnen. Vertiefend wird dabei auf organisationales Lernen, auf politische Steuerungslogik und auf die Notwendigkeit von Symbolisierungen eingegangen.}, language = {de} } @misc{Knigge2020, author = {Knigge, Michel}, title = {Use of evidence to promote inclusive education development commentary on Mel Ainscow. Promoting inclusion and equity in education}, series = {Zweitver{\"o}ffentlichungen der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe}, journal = {Zweitver{\"o}ffentlichungen der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe}, number = {1}, issn = {1866-8364}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-51914}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-519142}, pages = {6}, year = {2020}, abstract = {In his essay, Mel Ainscow looks at inclusion and equity from an international perspective and makes suggestions on how to develop inclusive education in a 'whole-system approach'. After discussing different conceptions of inclusion and equity, he describes international policies which address them. From this international macro-level, Ainscow zooms in to the meso-level of the school and its immediate environment, defining dimensions to be considered for an inclusive school development. One of these dimensions is the 'use of evidence'. In my comment, I want to focus on this dimension and discuss its scope and the potential to apply it in inclusive education development. As a first and important precondition, Ainscow explains that different circumstances lead to different linguistic uses of the term 'inclusive education'. Thus, the term 'inclusive education' does not refer to an identical set of objectives across countries, and neither does the term 'equity'.}, language = {en} } @article{Knigge2020, author = {Knigge, Michel}, title = {Use of evidence to promote inclusive education development commentary on Mel Ainscow. Promoting inclusion and equity in education}, series = {Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy}, volume = {6}, journal = {Nordic Journal of Studies in Educational Policy}, number = {1}, publisher = {Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {London}, issn = {2002-0317}, doi = {10.1080/20020317.2020.1730093}, pages = {21 -- 24}, year = {2020}, abstract = {In his essay, Mel Ainscow looks at inclusion and equity from an international perspective and makes suggestions on how to develop inclusive education in a 'whole-system approach'. After discussing different conceptions of inclusion and equity, he describes international policies which address them. From this international macro-level, Ainscow zooms in to the meso-level of the school and its immediate environment, defining dimensions to be considered for an inclusive school development. One of these dimensions is the 'use of evidence'. In my comment, I want to focus on this dimension and discuss its scope and the potential to apply it in inclusive education development. As a first and important precondition, Ainscow explains that different circumstances lead to different linguistic uses of the term 'inclusive education'. Thus, the term 'inclusive education' does not refer to an identical set of objectives across countries, and neither does the term 'equity'.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Kuenn2012, author = {K{\"u}nn, Steffen}, title = {Unemployment and active labor market policy : new evidence on start-up subsidies, marginal employment and programs for youth unemployed}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-62718}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, year = {2012}, abstract = {In industrialized economies such as the European countries unemployment rates are very responsive to the business cycle and significant shares stay unemployed for more than one year. To fight cyclical and long-term unemployment countries spend significant shares of their budget on Active Labor Market Policies (ALMP). To improve the allocation and design of ALMP it is essential for policy makers to have reliable evidence on the effectiveness of such programs available. Although the number of studies has been increased during the last decades, policy makers still lack evidence on innovative programs and for specific subgroups of the labor market. Using Germany as a case study, the dissertation aims at contributing in this way by providing new evidence on start-up subsidies, marginal employment and programs for youth unemployed. The idea behind start-up subsidies is to encourage unemployed individuals to exit unemployment by starting their own business. Those programs have compared to traditional programs of ALMP the advantage that not only the participant escapes unemployment but also might generate additional jobs for other individuals. Considering two distinct start-up subsidy programs, the dissertation adds three substantial aspects to the literature: First, the programs are effective in improving the employment and income situation of participants compared to non-participants in the long-run. Second, the analysis on effect heterogeneity reveals that the programs are particularly effective for disadvantaged groups in the labor market like low educated or low qualified individuals, and in regions with unfavorable economic conditions. Third, the analysis considers the effectiveness of start-up programs for women. Due to higher preferences for flexible working hours and limited part-time jobs, unemployed women often face more difficulties to integrate in dependent employment. It can be shown that start-up subsidy programs are very promising as unemployed women become self-employed which gives them more flexibility to reconcile work and family. Overall, the results suggest that the promotion of self-employment among the unemployed is a sensible strategy to fight unemployment by abolishing labor market barriers for disadvantaged groups and sustainably integrating those into the labor market. The next chapter of the dissertation considers the impact of marginal employment on labor market outcomes of the unemployed. Unemployed individuals in Germany are allowed to earn additional income during unemployment without suffering a reduction in their unemployment benefits. Those additional earnings are usually earned by taking up so-called marginal employment that is employment below a certain income level subject to reduced payroll taxes (also known as "mini-job"). The dissertation provides an empirical evaluation of the impact of marginal employment on unemployment duration and subsequent job quality. The results suggest that being marginal employed during unemployment has no significant effect on unemployment duration but extends employment duration. Moreover, it can be shown that taking up marginal employment is particularly effective for long-term unemployed, leading to higher job-finding probabilities and stronger job stability. It seems that mini-jobs can be an effective instrument to help long-term unemployed individuals to find (stable) jobs which is particularly interesting given the persistently high shares of long-term unemployed in European countries. Finally, the dissertation provides an empirical evaluation of the effectiveness of ALMP programs to improve labor market prospects of unemployed youth. Youth are generally considered a population at risk as they have lower search skills and little work experience compared to adults. This results in above-average turnover rates between jobs and unemployment for youth which is particularly sensitive to economic fluctuations. Therefore, countries spend significant resources on ALMP programs to fight youth unemployment. However, so far only little is known about the effectiveness of ALMP for unemployed youth and with respect to Germany no comprehensive quantitative analysis exists at all. Considering seven different ALMP programs, the results show an overall positive picture with respect to post-treatment employment probabilities for all measures under scrutiny except for job creation schemes. With respect to effect heterogeneity, it can be shown that almost all programs particularly improve the labor market prospects of youths with high levels of pretreatment schooling. Furthermore, youths who are assigned to the most successful employment measures have much better characteristics in terms of their pre-treatment employment chances compared to non-participants. Therefore, the program assignment process seems to favor individuals for whom the measures are most beneficial, indicating a lack of ALMP alternatives that could benefit low-educated youths.}, language = {en} } @misc{ArniCaliendoKuennetal.2014, author = {Arni, Patrick and Caliendo, Marco and K{\"u}nn, Steffen and Zimmermann, Klaus F.}, title = {The IZA evaluation dataset survey}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe}, number = {122}, issn = {1867-5808}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-43520}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-435204}, pages = {22}, year = {2014}, abstract = {This reference paper describes the sampling and contents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey and outlines its vast potential for research in labor economics. The data have been part of a unique IZA project to connect administrative data from the German Federal Employment Agency with innovative survey data to study the out-mobility of individuals to work. This study makes the survey available to the research community as a Scientific Use File by explaining the development, structure, and access to the data. Furthermore, it also summarizes previous findings with the survey data.}, language = {en} } @article{WaitelonisJuergesSack2019, author = {Waitelonis, J{\"o}rg and J{\"u}rges, Henrik and Sack, Harald}, title = {Remixing entity linking evaluation datasets for focused benchmarking}, series = {Semantic Web}, volume = {10}, journal = {Semantic Web}, number = {2}, publisher = {IOS Press}, address = {Amsterdam}, issn = {1570-0844}, doi = {10.3233/SW-180334}, pages = {385 -- 412}, year = {2019}, abstract = {In recent years, named entity linking (NEL) tools were primarily developed in terms of a general approach, whereas today numerous tools are focusing on specific domains such as e.g. the mapping of persons and organizations only, or the annotation of locations or events in microposts. However, the available benchmark datasets necessary for the evaluation of NEL tools do not reflect this focalizing trend. We have analyzed the evaluation process applied in the NEL benchmarking framework GERBIL [in: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW'15), International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee, Republic and Canton of Geneva, Switzerland, 2015, pp. 1133-1143, Semantic Web 9(5) (2018), 605-625] and all its benchmark datasets. Based on these insights we have extended the GERBIL framework to enable a more fine grained evaluation and in depth analysis of the available benchmark datasets with respect to different emphases. This paper presents the implementation of an adaptive filter for arbitrary entities and customized benchmark creation as well as the automated determination of typical NEL benchmark dataset properties, such as the extent of content-related ambiguity and diversity. These properties are integrated on different levels, which also enables to tailor customized new datasets out of the existing ones by remixing documents based on desired emphases. Besides a new system library to enrich provided NIF [in: International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC'13), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 8219, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013, pp. 98-113] datasets with statistical information, best practices for dataset remixing are presented, and an in depth analysis of the performance of entity linking systems on special focus datasets is presented.}, language = {en} } @book{HermannsBoehmeMeyeringetal.2023, author = {Hermanns, Jolanda and B{\"o}hme, Katrin and Meyering, Meike and Fuchs, Isabelle and Wagner, Simon and Krauskopf, Karsten and Knigge, Michel and Rother, Stefanie and Tosch, Frank and Wendland, Mirko and Wulff, Peter and Mientus, Lukas and Nowak, Anna and Borowski, Andreas and Baer, Ella and Bosch, Jannis and Wilbert, J{\"u}rgen and Br{\"a}sel, Tim and Fenn, Monika and Kortenkamp, Ulrich and Kuzle, Ana and Reitz-Koncebovski, Karen and Burg, Paula and Lampart, Fabian and Leubner, Martin and Freitag-Hild, Britta and Bitmann, Anna and Reinhardt, Susanne and Roos, Jana and Hußner, Isabell and B{\"o}rner, Dustin and Lazarides, Rebecca and Glowinski, Ingrid and Autenrieth, Marijke and Radke, Thea and Ehlert, Antje and Menke, Anne and Haupenthal, Anna and Schramm, Satyam Antonio and Kruse, Julia and K{\"o}rner, Dorothea and Fischer, Jakob Thomas and Kayser, Daniela Niesta}, title = {PSI-Potsdam}, series = {Potsdamer Beitr{\"a}ge f{\"u}r Lehrkr{\"a}ftebildung und Bildungsforschung}, journal = {Potsdamer Beitr{\"a}ge f{\"u}r Lehrkr{\"a}ftebildung und Bildungsforschung}, number = {3}, editor = {Hermanns, Jolanda}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-568-2}, issn = {2626-3556}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-60187}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-601875}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {393}, year = {2023}, abstract = {An der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam wird seit 2015 im Rahmen der „Qualit{\"a}tsoffensive Lehrerbildung" das Projekt „Professionalisierung - Schulpraktische Studien - Inklusion" (PSI-Potsdam) durchgef{\"u}hrt und am Zentrum f{\"u}r Lehrerbildung und Bildungsforschung (ZeLB) koordiniert. Zur ersten Projektf{\"o}rderphase (2015-2018) erschien der Band „PSI-Potsdam - Ergebnisbericht zu den Aktivit{\"a}ten im Rahmen der Qualit{\"a}tsoffensive Lehrerbildung (2015-2018)" zum Auftakt der Reihe „Potsdamer Beitr{\"a}ge zur Lehrerbildung und Bildungsforschung". Der vorliegende Band aus der gleichen Reihe gibt in den Kapiteln „Erhebungen", „Lehrkonzepte" und „Vernetzungen" einen {\"U}berblick {\"u}ber alle Teilprojekte der zweiten Projektf{\"o}rderphase (2019-2023). Wissenschaftler:innen aus verschiedenen Fachdidaktiken, Fachwissenschaften sowie aus den Bildungswissenschaften und der Inklusionsp{\"a}dagogik haben im Rahmen des Projektes kooperiert. Sowohl praxisnahe Forschung als auch die Entwicklung neuer Lehrkonzepte sowie Strategien zur Vernetzung innerhalb der Lehrkr{\"a}ftebildung stehen im Fokus dieses Bandes. Die Praxisphasen, die im Rahmen des „Potsdamer Modells der Lehrerbildung" eine zentrale Rolle spielen, wurden in einer großen Studie {\"u}ber alle Praxisphasen untersucht. Der Band gibt interessante Einblicke in die Ergebnisse der Teilprojekte und Anregungen sowohl f{\"u}r die eigene Forschung als auch f{\"u}r Entwicklungsarbeit wie zum Beispiel die Entwicklung neuer Lehrkonzepte. Herausgegeben wird dieser Band von PD Dr. Jolanda Hermanns (Gesamtkoordinatorin PSI-Potsdam und Chemiedidaktikerin).}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{vonKaphengst2019, author = {von Kaphengst, Dragana}, title = {Project's management quality in development cooperation}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-43099}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-430992}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {xvii, 237}, year = {2019}, abstract = {In light of the debate on the consequences of competitive contracting out of traditionally public services, this research compares two mechanisms used to allocate funds in development cooperation—direct awarding and competitive contracting out—aiming to identify their potential advantages and disadvantages. The agency theory is applied within the framework of rational-choice institutionalism to study the institutional arrangements that surround two different money allocation mechanisms, identify the incentives they create for the behavior of individual actors in the field, and examine how these then transfer into measurable differences in managerial quality of development aid projects. In this work, project management quality is seen as an important determinant of the overall project success. For data-gathering purposes, the German development agency, the Gesellschaft f{\"u}r Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), is used due to its unique way of work. Whereas the majority of projects receive funds via direct-award mechanism, there is a commercial department, GIZ International Services (GIZ IS) that has to compete for project funds. The data concerning project management practices on the GIZ and GIZ IS projects was gathered via a web-based, self-administered survey of project team leaders. Principal component analysis was applied to reduce the dimensionality of the independent variable to total of five components of project management. Furthermore, multiple regression analysis identified the differences between the separate components on these two project types. Enriched by qualitative data gathered via interviews, this thesis offers insights into everyday managerial practices in development cooperation and identifies the advantages and disadvantages of the two allocation mechanisms. The thesis first reiterates the responsibility of donors and implementers for overall aid effectiveness. It shows that the mechanism of competitive contracting out leads to better oversight and control of implementers, fosters deeper cooperation between the implementers and beneficiaries, and has a potential to strengthen ownership of recipient countries. On the other hand, it shows that the evaluation quality does not tremendously benefit from the competitive allocation mechanism and that the quality of the component knowledge management and learning is better when direct-award mechanisms are used. This raises questions about the lacking possibilities of actors in the field to learn about past mistakes and incorporate the finings into the future interventions, which is one of the fundamental issues of aid effectiveness. Finally, the findings show immense deficiencies in regard to oversight and control of individual projects in German development cooperation.}, language = {en} } @misc{GhahremaniGiese2019, author = {Ghahremani, Sona and Giese, Holger}, title = {Performance evaluation for self-healing systems}, series = {2019 IEEE 4th International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (FAS*W)}, journal = {2019 IEEE 4th International Workshops on Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (FAS*W)}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {New York}, isbn = {978-1-7281-2406-3}, doi = {10.1109/FAS-W.2019.00039}, pages = {116 -- 119}, year = {2019}, abstract = {Evaluating the performance of self-adaptive systems (SAS) is challenging due to their complexity and interaction with the often highly dynamic environment. In the context of self-healing systems (SHS), employing simulators has been shown to be the most dominant means for performance evaluation. Simulating a SHS also requires realistic fault injection scenarios. We study the state of the practice for evaluating the performance of SHS by means of a systematic literature review. We present the current practice and point out that a more thorough and careful treatment in evaluating the performance of SHS is required.}, language = {en} }