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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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Non-cognitive skill formation in poor neighbourhoods of urban India

Krishnan, Pramila; Krutikova, Sofya - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Recent labour market research has shown that a good education comprises investment in both cognitive and non-cognitive skills. We examine the impact of a long-term programme designed to raise non-cognitive skills of children and adolescents in slums in Bombay. We use a cross-cutting design with...

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Do German Welfare-to-Work Programmes Reduce Welfare and Increase Work?

Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Walter, Thomas; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Many Western economies have reformed their welfare systems with the aim of activating welfare recipients by increasing welfare-to-work programmes and job search enforcement. We evaluate the three most important German welfare-to-work programmes implemented after a major reform in January 2005...

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Active Labour Market Policy in East Germany: Waiting for the Economy to Take Off

Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We investigate the effects of the most important East German active labour market programmes on the labour market outcomes of their participants. The analysis is based on a large and informative individual database coming from administrative data sources. Using matching methods, we find that...

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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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Does the Order and Timing of Active Labour Market Programmes Matter?

Lechner, Michael; Wiehler, Stephan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper extends the traditional focus of active labour market policy evaluation from a static comparison of participation in a programme versus nonparticipation (or participation in another programme) to the evaluation of the effects of programme sequences, i.e. multiple participation or...

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What Did All the Money Do? On the General Ineffectiveness of Recent West German Labour Market Programmes

Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We provide new evidence on the effectiveness of West German labour market programmes by evaluating training and employment programmes that have been conducted 2000-2002 after the first large reform of German labour market policy in 1998. We employ exceptionally rich administrative data that...

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Inflation Targeting as a Monetary Policy Rule

Svensson, Lars E O - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

The purpose of the paper is to survey and discuss inflation targeting in the context of monetary policy rules. The paper provides a general conceptual discussion of monetary policy rules, attempts to clarify the essential characteristics of inflation targeting, compares inflation targeting to...

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Canova, Fabio; Ciccarelli, Matteo; Ortega, Eva - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

show that country specific indicators play a much smaller role. We detect differences across business cycle phases but …

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The Labour Market and Corporate Structure

Acemoglu, Daron; Newman, Andrew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

finds that higher wages are associated with lower monitoring, irrespective of whether these high wages are caused by labour …, monitoring is a type of ‘rent-seeking’ activity and the decentralized equilibrium spends excessive resources on monitoring …. Labour market regulations that reduce monitoring by pushing wages up may increase net output or reduce it only by a small …

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