This paper assesses the impact of Swedish welfare-to-work programmes on labour market performance including wages … observables and unobservables. We estimate the model from a rich administrative panel data set and show that training programmes … - which account for a large proportion of programmes - have a little effect on future outcomes, whereas job experience …

developments. In particular, the methodology of scientific research programmes (MSRP) advanced by Lakatos (1968, 1970) has been … central to the main elements of the hard core of contemporary research programmes in line with the neoclassical research …

offices in choosing appropriate active labour market programmes for their unemployed clients. This statistical support system … market programmes, and the evaluation results showed that caseworkers largely ignored the statistical support system. This …

Econometric evaluations of public-sponsored training programmes generally find little evidence of an impact of such …

Recent empirical evidence has found that employment services and small-business assistance programmes are often … programmes is more effective and for whom. Using unusually rich (for transition economies) survey data and matching methods, I … evaluate the relative effectiveness of these two programmes in Romania. While I find that employment services (ES) are, on …

programmes can provide some succour to the agricultural labourers and also perhaps to the marginal and small farmers. The least … that one can expect from such programmes is rent-seeking. Some recent evidences indicate that one can develop institutions …