Search Results - subject:"Evaluation methods"

Methods applied in evaluating business subsidy programs: A survey

Venetoklis, Takis - Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus (VATT), Government … - 2000

assess the evaluation methods applied and then recommend the most appropriate ones applicable in Finland. In the paper twenty … methods are divided into two types: ones which gather data and others which analyse them. We found that the evaluation methods … seven studies are analysed; eighteen using Finnish data and the rest, data from other countries. In the study, evaluation …

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The impact of non-profit temping agencies on individual labour market success in the West German state of Rhineland-Palatinate

Lechner, Michael; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Spengler, Hannes; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

The paper presents an econometric evaluation of the effects of subsidised non-profit temporary employment agencies - a programme of the West German active labour market policy - on individual labour market outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on individual data from files for...

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The impact of non-profit temping agencies on individual labour market success in the West German state of Rhineland-Palatinate

Lechner, Michael; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Spengler, Hannes; … - 2000

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Reorienting companies' hiring behaviour: an innovative `back-to-work' method in France

Salognon, Marie - In: Work, Employment & Society 21 (2007) 4, pp. 713-730

Current `back-to-work' programmes, particularly in France, tend to be built on a concept of personal responsibility for (long-term) unemployment and follow an `adaptive' approach: improving the `employability' of the unemployed, which is seen as an individual capacity, independent of the work...

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Interviewer as Instrument

Brown, Joel H. - In: Evaluation Review 30 (2006) 2, pp. 188-208

This methodological study examines an original data collection model designed to incorporate human factors and enhance data richness in qualitative and evaluation research. Evidence supporting this model is drawn from in-depth youth and adult interviews in one of the largest policy/...

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An economic evaluation of the Baldrige National Quality Program

Link, Albert; Scott, John - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 15 (2006) 1, pp. 83-100

All federal programs are accountable for their use of public funds. This paper presents conservative estimates of the net social benefits associated with the Baldrige National Quality Award Program, established within the National Institute of Standards and Technology in 1987. On the basis of...

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Ex Ante Evaluation of Social Programs

Todd, Petra E.; Wolpin, Kenneth I. - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2006

to evaluate a program ex ante. We illustrate the application of ex ante evaluation methods using data from the PROGRESA …

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Using Matching Estimators to Evaluate Alternative Youth Employment Programs: Evidence from France, 1986-1988

Brodaty, Thomas; Crépon, Bruno; Fougère, Denis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

In this paper we apply the statistical framework recently proposed by Imbens (1999) and Lechner (1999) to identify the causal effects of multiple treatments under the conditional independence assumption. We show that under this assumption, matching with respect to the ratio of the scores allows...

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discussed. The tools are derived from both ROI and DCF bases. Descriptions of the evaluation methods, ways of conveying the …

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Has the Introduction of Microfinance Crowded-out Informal Loans in Malawi?

Disney, Richard; Fischera, Eleonora; Owens, Trudy - Centre for Research in Economic Development and …

This paper uses household data to test whether microfinance institutions created by the Malawian government in the mid-1990s under its Poverty Alleviation Programme crowded out access to informal loans. As in several recent studies, the paper adopts policy evaluation techniques to identify a...

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