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Sensitivity of matching-based program evaluations to the availability of control variables
Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 21 (2013), pp. 111-121
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Youth unemployment and active labor market policies in Europe
Caliendo, Marco; Schmidl, Ricarda - 2015 - Forthcoming in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015
the aim of improving the integration prospects of struggling youths. Among the most common programs used are training … for training and wage subsidies, whereas the effects for public work programs are clearly negative. The evidence on the …
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Youth unemployment and active labor market policies in Europe
Caliendo, Marco; Schmidl, Ricarda - 2016
the aim of improving the integration prospects of struggling youths. Among the most common programs used are training … for training and wage subsidies, whereas the effects for public work programs are clearly negative. The evidence on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416888
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Direct and indirect effects of training vouchers for the unemployed
Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Strittmatter, Anthony - 2015
This paper evaluates the effect of a voucher award system for assignment into vocational training on the employment … negative short term and positive long term employment effects of voucher award are mainly driven by actual training …
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Vocational training for female job returners : effects on employment, earnings and job quality
Doerr, Annabelle - 2022
This paper studies how training vouchers increase the employment prospects of women with interrupted employment … histories. Using the population of female job returners who receive a training voucher to participate in training programs and a … randomly selected control group from German administrative data, I analyze the effectiveness of training on various labor …
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Employment and earnings effects of awarding training vouchers in Germany
Doerr, Annabelle; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kruppe, Thomas; … - 2014
In 2003, Germany moved from a system in which participants in training programs for the unemployed are assigned by …
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Employment and earnings effects of awarding training vouchers in Germany
Doerr, Annabelle; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kruppe, Thomas; … - 2014
In 2003, Germany moved from a system in which participants in training programs for the unemployed are assigned by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010407995
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The impact of labor intermediation and training in high informality contexts : evidence from Paraguay
Campos, Nicolás; Chalup Calmotti, Miguel Sebastiano; … - 2024
We provide quasi-experimental estimates of the impact of reforming public training programs offered in Paraguay on … formal employment. The Programa de Apoyo a la Inserción Laboral (PAIL) revamped training program design in the country by … within companies with classroom training. We combine administrative records - which contain detailed information on the …
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Should the unemployed care for the elderly? : the effect of subsidized occupational and further training in elderly care
Dauth, Christine; Lang, Julia - 2017
. Training unemployed workers in care occupations might mitigate this problem. This study analyzes the effectiveness of … subsidized training in elderly care professions for the unemployed in Germany over 12 years. We find that subsidized further … training and retraining in elderly care improves the employment chances of unemployed workers substantially in the long term …
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Active labor market policies
Crépon, Bruno; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2016
Active labor market policies are massively used with the objective being to improve labor market outcomes of individuals out of work. Many observational evaluation studies have been published. In this review, we critically assess policy effectiveness. We emphasize insights from recent randomized...
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