Fig. 2

Full sample: Share of subsidized workers and matched comparison persons in employment as well as difference in shares.

Note: Previously unemployed workers taking up a full-time job during the second quarter of 2003. Confidence intervals for the difference in shares are given for \( \alpha \) \( = \) 0.05. Comparison persons have been selected by means of a radius matching and a caliper of 0.0005. Subsidies include subsidies for training requirements as well as subsidies for hard-to-place workers. With the exception of the first subsidized employment spell, only times in unsubsidized employment are considered. On average, the additional days in employment sum up to  70 days (Men West),  63 days (Women West), 115 days (Men East), and 130 days (Women East) over a period of  3.5  years (see also Table 5)