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The Locking-in Effect of Subsidized Jobs

Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

job. This Paper uses an administrative data set from the Slovak Republic on durations of individual unemployment spells …

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A Framework for Analysing the Political Support for Active Labour Market Policy

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

We develop a general equilibrium analysis of the impact of active labour market policy on unemployment, wages and the … employed have little exposure to unemployment and if the demand for unskilled labour is inelastic, there may be political … support for policies which actually raise the equilibrium level of total unemployment. …

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Job Search and Hyperbolic Discounting: Structural Estimation and Policy Evaluation

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

various policy interventions aimed at reducing unemployment. The model is estimated using data on unemployment spells and …

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An Economic Analysis of Exclusion Restrictions for Instrumental Variable Estimation

den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Instrumental variable estimation requires untestable exclusion restrictions. With policy effects on individual outcomes, there is typically a time interval between the moment the agent realizes that he may be exposed to the policy and the actual exposure or the announcement of the actual...

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Long run Effects of Public Sector Sponsored Training in West Germany

Lechner, Michael; Miquel, Ruth; Wunsch, Conny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Between 1991 and 1997 West Germany spent on average about 3.6bn euro per year on public sector sponsored training programmes for the unemployed. We base our empirical analysis on a new administrative database that plausibly allows for selectivity correction by microeconometric matching methods....

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What is the Value Added by Caseworkers?

Lechner, Michael; Smith, Jeffrey - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

probabilities. Our econometric analysis uses unusually informative data originating from administrative unemployment and social …

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Regional Treatment Intensity as an Instrument for the Evaluation of Labour Market Policies

Fröhlich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

The effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) on individual employment chances and earnings are evaluated by non-parametric instrumental variables based on Swiss administrative data with detailed regional information. Using an exogenous variation in the participation probabilities across...

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Disentangling Treatment Effects of Polish Active Labour Market Policies: Evidence from Matched Samples

Kluve, Jochen; Lehmann, Hartmut; Schmidt, Christoph M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper estimates causal effects of two Polish active labour market policies – Training and Intervention Works – on employment probabilities. Utilizing data from the 18th wave of the Polish Labor Force Survey we discuss three stages of an appropriately designed exact matching procedure....

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And Then There Were Four... How Many (and Which) Measures of Active Labour Market Policy Do We Still Need?

Eichhorst, Werner; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Through the Hartz reforms, German active labour market policy was fundamentally restructured and has since been systematically evaluated. This paper reviews the recent evaluation findings and draws some conclusions for the future setup of active labour market policies in Germany. It argues in...

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The Curse and Blessing of Training the Unemployed in a Changing Economy: the Case of East Germany after Unification

Lechner, Michael; Miquel, Ruth; Wunsch, Conny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We analyse the effects of government sponsored training for the unemployed conducted during East German transition. For the microeconometric analysis, we use a new, large and informative administrative database that allows us to use matching methods to reduce potential selection bias, to study...

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