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Treatment evaluation in the case of interactions within markets

Ferracci, Marc; Jolivet, Grégory; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2010

We extend the standard evaluation framework to allow for interactions between individuals within segmented markets. An individual's outcome depends not only on the assigned treatment status but also on (features of) the distribution of the assigned treatments in his market. To evaluate how the...

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Survey Non-Response and Unemployment Duration

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lindeboom, Maarten; Dolton, … - 2004

Social surveys are often used to estimate unemployment duration distributions. Survey nonresponse may then cause a bias … methodology exploits variation in the timing of the duration outcome relative to the survey moment. The results show evidence for …

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Nonparametric Estimation of a Dependent Competing Risks Model for Unemployment Durations

van den Berg, Gerard J.; van Lomwel, A. Gijsbert C.; … - 2003

estimate a dependent competing risks model with nonparametric specifications of the destination-specific duration dependence …-1994, stratified by gender type, duration class and exit state. …

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Monitoring job offer decisions, punishments, exit to work, and job quality

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Vikström, Johan - 2009

-2004. We estimate duration models dealing with selection on unobservables. We use weighted exogenous sampling maximum …

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Monitoring Job Offer Decisions, Punishments, Exit to Work, and Job Quality

den Berg, Gerard J. van; Vikström, Johan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

-2004. We estimate duration models dealing with selection on unobservables. We use weighted exogenous sampling maximum …

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The Impact of Active Labor Market Programs and Benefit Entitlement Rules on the Duration of Unemployment

Zweimüller, Josef; van Ours, Jan C.; Lalive, Rafael - 2000

making benefit payments conditional on program attendance after 7 months of unemployment duration. We evaluate the effect of … Active Labor Market Programs and benefit entitlement on the duration of unemployment in Switzerland. In the evaluation we … participation. Taken together, this leads to the conclusion that programs prolong unemployment duration for men, but tend to shorten …

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Structurally Dependent Competing Risks

Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 2001

In this paper, we specify and estimate a structurally dependent competing risks model for the transitions out of unemployment into either new job or recall. The recall probability is allowed to affect the search intensity for new jobs.

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Unemployment Duration: Competing and Defective Risks

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - 2001

This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination … unlucky draws that yields a non-proper duration distribution; and a split-population model in which the decision by some …

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Nonparametric tests for treatment effect heterogeneity

Crump, Richard K.; Hotz, V. Joseph; Imbens, Guido W.; … - 2006

A large part of the recent literature on program evaluation has focused on estimation of the average effect of the treatment under assumptions of unconfoundedness or ignorability following the seminal work by Rubin (1974) and Rosenbaum and Rubin (1983). In many cases however, researchers are...

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US unemployment duration: has long become longer or short become shorter?

Machado, José A. F.; Portugal, Pedro; Guimaraes, Juliana - 2006

The U.S. labor market has been experiencing unprecedented high average unemployment duration. The shift in the … unemployment duration distribution can be traced back to the early nineties. In this study, censored quantile regression methods … are employed to analyze the changes in the US unemployment duration distribution. We explore the decomposition method …

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