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paper analyzes impacts of the Bologna Reform for Germany by using unique micro data from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU … empirical results are robust across specifications and sample stratifications and indicate the following: the Bologna reform led …
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career, especially for women. The recent German Elterngeld reform is one example: By replacing 67 per cent of prepartum … reform by using a natural experiment created by the quick legislative process of the Elterngeld reform: Comparing outcomes of … estimates of the reform effects, because at the time when these children were conceived none of the parents knew that the …
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While high rates of youth unemployment are a severe problem in most European countries, the program evaluation literature shows that disadvantaged youths constitute a group that is particularly difficult to assist effectively. As innovative measures are thus needed, we evaluate a German pilot...
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for reform and its main principles. As results of programme evaluation studies post-reform have become available just now … positive effects. On balance, therefore, the reform seems to be moving the German labour market in the right direction …. -- Active Labour Market Policy ; labour market reform ; programme evaluation …
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This paper assesses the dynamics of treatment effects arising from variation in the duration of training. We use German administrative data that have the extraordinary feature that the amount of treatment varies continuously from 10 days to 395 days (i.e. 13 months). This feature allows us to...
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Against the background of the current discussion on the introduction of statutory minimum wages in Germany, this paper … from a structural labor demand model, the empirical results imply that the introduction of minimum wages in Germany will be …
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Measures of Active Labor Market Policy are widely used in European countries, but despite many econometric evaluation studies no conclusive cross-country evidence exists regarding "what program works for what target group under what (economic and institutional) circumstances?". This paper...
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This study reviews the evidence on the impact of youth employment programs on labor market outcomes. The analysis looks at the effectiveness of various interventions and the factors that influence program performance including country context, targeted beneficiaries, program design and...
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Labor markets in low- and middle income countries are characterized by high levels of informality. A multitude of interventions have therefore been implemented in many countries with the objective to increase the formalization of firms and workers, including information campaigns, simplification...
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