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In the second part of the 1990's Switzerland conducted an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing a wide variety of programmes. We evaluate the effects of these programmes on the individual employment probability of potential participants. Our econometric analysis uses...
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experiment (the effect of boy-boy or girl-girl as the first two children on incremental fertility and mothers' labor force … investigate where to locate experiments and the decision problem associated with extrapolating from existing evidence rather than … running a new experiment at a target site. …
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This paper considers the problem of making inferences about the effects of a program on multiple outcomes when the assignment of treatment status is imperfectly randomized. By imperfect randomization we mean that treatment status is reassigned after an initial randomization on the basis of...
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This study analyses the effects of public sector sponsored vocational training on individual unemployment and employment duration in East Germany. The data is taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). The empirical analysis is limited to training measures that took place between July...
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-response may bias estimates. Linking Dutch survey data to administrative income data allows us to examine whether selective … responses bias the estimated relationship between parental income and children's mathematics and language test scores in grades … because they may be biased by selective non-response. The direction of such bias is difficult to predict a priori. Bias due to …
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-cycle bias if the snapshots cannot mimic lifetime outcomes. Using uniquely long series of Swedish income data, we show that … current empirical strategies do not eliminate such bias. We focus on the widely adopted generalized errors-in-variables model … and find that the remaining bias is substantial (20% of the true elasticity from left-side measurement error at the most …
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Each year Germany and many other developed economies spend tens of billions of Euros on active measures of employment promotion with the explicit aim of contributing to the reduction of unemployment. Yet, high unemployment has universally been a persistent problem throughout the last two...
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Most evaluation studies of active labour market policies (ALMP) focus on the microeconometric evaluation approach using individual data. However, as the microeconometric approach usually ignores impacts on the non-participants, it should be seen as a first step to a complete evaluation which has...
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