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Economies with low unemployment often have high disability rates. In Norway, the permanent disability insurance rolls …
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This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through the production period, and continuously updated...
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program matches, which ultimately leads to higher college completion rates because alternative evaluation is more likely to … admit students that tend to struggle elsewhere. Most of the impact of alternative evaluation is found to be due to their … applicant pool fixed (screening). Our analysis of the evaluation technology shows that the use of individual grades leads to the …
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Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States. We test the hypothesis of parentchild time as a...
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to advance it. This paper evaluates the effects of a large-scale randomized field experiment issuing vouchers for adult …
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As work changes more quickly, firm-provided training may become more relevant. However, there is little causal evidence about the effects of training on firms. This paper studies a large training grants programme in Portugal, supported by the European Social Fund, contrasting firms that received...
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This paper introduces the EJ Symposium on Child Development by reviewing the literature and placing the contributions of the papers in the Symposium in the context of a vibrant literature.
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The guide outlines the main evaluation challenges associated with ALMP s, and shows how to obtain rigorous impact … estimates using two leading evaluation approaches. The most credible and straightforward evaluation method is a randomized … and informative impact evaluation using either of these two techniques. …
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The guide outlines the main evaluation challenges associated with ALMP’s, and shows how to obtain rigorous impact … estimates using two leading evaluation approaches. The most credible and straightforward evaluation method is a randomized … and informative impact evaluation using either of these two techniques. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371174
Women without work after childbirth are at risk of losing their connection to the labor market. However, they may participate in adult education programs. We analyze the effect of this on the duration to work and on the wage rate, by applying conditional difference-in-differences approaches. We...
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