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Swedish Labour Market Training and the Duration of Unemployment

Richardson, Katarina; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

employment by exploiting variation in the timing of treatment and outcome, dealing with selectivity on unobservables. We … model allowing for duration dependence and unobserved heterogeneity (leading to spurious duration dependence) in the … treatment effect itself, and we prove non-parametric identification. The data cover the population and include multiple …

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Structural Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?

Gautier, Pieter A; Moraga-González, José-Luis; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....

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Effects on School Enrollment and Performance of a Conditional Cash Transfers Program in Mexico

de Janvry, Alain; Dubois, Pierre; Sadoulet, Elisabeth - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We study the effects of a conditional cash transfers program on school enrollment and performance in Mexico. We provide a theoretical framework for analyzing the dynamic educational process including the endogeneity and uncertainty of performance at school (passing grades) and the effect of a...

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Identification of Peer Effects Using Group Size Variation

D'Haultfoeuille, Xavier; Davezies, Laurent; Fougère, Denis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper considers the semiparametric identification of endogenous and exogenous peer effects based on group size …

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The Impact Of Active Labour Market Policies And Benefit Entitlement Rules On The Duration Of Unemployment

Lalive, Rafael; Ours, Jan C van; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

We evaluate the effect of active labour market programs on the duration of unemployment in a reward or punish system …. In Switzerland, unemployment benefits are conditional upon program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. In … the evaluation we allow for selectivity affecting the inflow into programs. Our results indicate that (i) After ALMP …

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A Microeconometric Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland

Gerfin, Michael; Lechner, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

In the second half of the 1990s Switzerland introduced an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing a variety of programmes. We evaluate the effects of these programmes on individual employment probability using unusually informative data originating from administrative records....

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Immigration and Heterogeneous Labour in Western Germany: A Labour Market Classification Based on Nonparametric Estimation

Fröhlich, Markus; Puhani, Patrick A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labour markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labour market rigidities. In an...

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Youth Unemployment and Crime in France

Fougère, Denis; Kramarz, Francis; Pouget, Julien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

In this paper we examine the influence of unemployment on property crimes and on violent crimes in France for the period 1990 to 2000. This analysis is the first extensive study for this country. We construct a regional-level data set (for the 95 départements of metropolitan France) with...

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Youth Unemployment and Government Policy

Orszag, Mike; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

This paper discusses how employment vouchers should depend on age in a simple overlapping generations model in which workers are either young or old. We find that young workers should receive higher vouchers as displacement of the old rises and as the deadweight loss from providing vouchers to...

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Job Search and Hyperbolic Discounting: Structural Estimation and Policy Evaluation

Paserman, M. Daniele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper estimates the structural parameters of a job search model with hyperbolic discounting and endogenous search effort. It estimates quantitatively the degree of hyperbolic discounting, and assesses its implications for the impact of various policy interventions aimed at reducing...

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