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Ökonometrie vs. Projektdesign: Lehren aus der Evaluation eines Modellprojekts zur Umsetzung des Workfare-Konzepts
Schneider, Hilmar; Uhlendorff, Arne; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We evaluate a pilot workfare project of a Berlin city community to integrate young people in social assistance into the labor market. Reference data are generated in collaboration with the German Employment Office. The participation effect is found to be positive and of relevant size, but not...
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Determinanten des Suchverhaltens von Arbeitslosen: Ausgewählte Erkenntnisse basierend auf dem IZA Evaluationsdatensatz
Caliendo, Marco; Uhlendorff, Arne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
personality traits and subjective expectations. The IZA Evaluation dataset allows us to analyse the impact of these factors on the …
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Mit Workfare aus der Sozialhilfe? Lehren aus einem Modellprojekt
Schneider, Hilmar; Uhlendorff, Arne; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Wir berichten über die Evaluation des Pilotprojektes eines Berliner Sozialamts zur Integration junger …
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Oekonometrie vs. Projektdesign: Lehren aus der Evaluation eines Modellprojekts zur Umsetzung des Workfare-Konzepts
Schneider, Hilmar; Uhlendorff, Arne; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 233 (2013) 1, pp. 65-85
A common problem of welfare states consists of a high unemployment risk for low-skilled workers. This is often attributed to a lack of jobs for the low-skilled, but it may as well be caused by a lack of incentives to work. Low-skilled workers are easily substitutable and therefore have little...
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The IZA Evaluation Dataset: Towards Evidence-Based Labor Policy-Making
Caliendo, Marco; Falk, Armin; Kaiser, Lutz C.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The evaluation of labor market policies has become an important issue in many European countries. In recent years, a … number of them have opened their administrative databases for evaluation studies. The advantages of administrative data are … purposes. Therefore, information that might be relevant for economic modeling is often absent. The IZA Evaluation Dataset aims …
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The IZA Evaluation Dataset: towards evidence-based labor policy making
Caliendo, Marco; Falk, Armin; Kaiser, Lutz C.; … - In: International Journal of Manpower 32 (2011) November, pp. 731-752
Purpose – This paper aims to present the IZA Evaluation Dataset, a newly created data source allowing for the … evaluation of active labor market policies in Germany. Design/methodology/approach – The paper's approach is a description of the … sampling and contents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset and an outline of its research potential. Findings – The evaluation of …
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