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Reducing Start-Up Costs for New Firms: The Double Dividend on the Labour Market

Dulleck, Uwe; Frijters, Paul; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

insurance against unemployment caused by labour market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show … within a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …

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Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies

Brown, Alessio J G; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities and targeting the unemployed under the criteria of "approximate welfare efficiency" (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies...

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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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Estimating the Effect of a Retraining Program on the Re-Employment Rate of Displaced Workers

Cavaco, Sandra; Fougère, Denis; Pouget, Julien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

In this paper we estimate by matching techniques the effects of a French retraining program on the reemployment rate of laid-off workers. This program, called “Conventions de conversion”, was intended to improve reemployment prospects of displaced workers by proposing them retraining and job...

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The Dynamics of the Racial Test Score Gap During the School Years in Britain

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

differences in parents' involvement in education. We find that a non-negligible part of the test score racial gap can be explained … by these cultural differences. In particular, we show that if non-white parents would invest in education of their 11 …

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Hobbies, Skills and Incentives to Work: The Happy Gardener and the Wealthy Golfer

Sällström, Susanna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Two of the earliest inventions of a human capital-intensive technology were for the production of personal internal goods that enabled humans to derive more pleasure out of leisure, namely dance and music. I model the incentives to invent hobbies and to acquire hobby skills, and its implications...

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A Microfoundation for Increasing Returns in Human Capital Accumulation and the Under-Participation Trap

Booth, Alison L.; Coles, Melvyn - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

the labour market and underinvestment in education. A central insight is that the ex-post participation decision of … workers endogeneously generates increasing marginal returns to education. Although equilibrium implies underinvestment in … education, optimal policy is not to subsidise education. Instead it is to subsidise labour market participation which we argue …

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Exploring the Factors Associated with Youths’ Educational Outcomes: The Role of Locus of Control and Parental Socio-Economic Background

Baron, Juan - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

Using unique information for a cohort of Australian youth, this paper explores the association between youths’ perception of control (i.e. locus of control) and three educational outcomes: (i) Year 12 completion, (ii) whether youth obtained an Equivalent National Tertiary Entrance Rank (ENTER)...

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Tax Policy and Returns to Education

Booth, Alison L.; Coles, Melvyn B. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

differences in labour supply responses to tax policy can explain differences in aggregate labour supply and years of education …

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Are there Asymmetries in the Effects of Training on the Conditional Male Wage Distribution?

Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison; Bryan, Mark L. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

Recent studies have used quantile regression (QR) techniques to estimate the impact of education on the location, scale …

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