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New Evidence on the Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany - a Matching Approach with Threefold Heterogeneity
Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2021
This paper evaluates the effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany. Since previous empirical studies of these measures have been based on relatively small datasets and focussed on East Germany, this is the first study which allows to draw policy-relevant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319977
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The Effect of Early Life Health on Later Life Home Care Use : The Mediating Role of Household Composition
Bijwaard, Govert E. - 2018
In this paper we estimate the effect of early life health on home care use later in life, and we analyse whether this effect is mediated through household composition. We use Dutch administrative data on men born in 1944-1947 who were examined for military service between 1961-1965 and we link...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912243
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Heterogeneous Income Profiles and Life-Cycle Bias in Intergenerational Mobility Estimation
Nybom, Martin - 2011
-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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125141
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Measuring the Value of a Statistical Life : Problems and Prospects
Ashenfelter, Orley - 2006
Tradeoffs between monetary wealth and fatal safety risks are summarized in the value of a statistical life (VSL), a measure that is widely used for the evaluation of public policies in medicine, the environment, and transportation safety. This paper demonstrates the widespread use of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012734646
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Heterogeneous Employment Effects of Job Search Programmes : A Machine Learning Approach
Knaus, Michael - 2017
We systematically investigate the effect heterogeneity of job search programmes for unemployed workers. To investigate possibly heterogeneous employment effects, we combine non-experimental causal empirical models with Lasso-type estimators. The empirical analyses are based on rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948612
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The Effect of Health Insurance Reform : Evidence from China
He, Huajing - 2018
This paper estimates the impact of a health insurance reform on health outcomes in urban China. Using the China Health and Nutrition Survey we find that this reform increases the rate of health insurance coverage significantly among workers in Non-State Owned Enterprises. The double difference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908875
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End-of-Year Spending and the Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed
Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2017
This study re-estimates the employment effects of training programs for the unemployed using exogenous variation in participation caused by budget rules in Germany in the 1980s and early 1990s, resulting in the infamous "end-of-year spending". In addition to estimating complier effects with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966067
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Get Training or Wait? Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed in West Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; Voelter, Robert - 2021
Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employment effects and often it is not possible to assess whether positive long-run effects exist. Based on unique administrative data, this paper estimates the long-run differential employment effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317595
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The Employment Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany : A Microeconometric Evaluation
Caliendo, Marco; Hujer, Reinhard; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2021
In this paper we evaluate the employment effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany. Job creation schemes are a major element of active labour market policy in Germany and are targeted at long-term unemployed and other hard-to-place individuals. Access to very...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318664
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Evaluating the Dynamic Employment Effects of Training Programs in East Germany Using Conditional Difference-in-Differences
Bergemann, Annette; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Speckesser, Stefan - 2021
. Selection bias based on observed characteristics is corrected for by applying kernel matching based on the propensity score. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319240