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Blien, Uwe; van, Phan thi Hong - 2006

This paper presents a regional case study of the labour market and its surrounding of Vinh City in central Vietnam … reflect an enormous development process. Incomes increased fast and many structural parameters of the economy adapted to the … new institutional setting of a market economy. The absolute level of income and of the standard of living is still low …

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Feenstra, Robert C. - In: International economics. 2008

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Study guide with worked examples for use with international economics

Feenstra, Robert C.; Taylor, Alan M.; Yeaple, Stephen R. - In: International economics. 2008

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Statistical Assistance for Programme Selection - For a Better Targeting of Active Labour Market Policies in Switzerland

Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - In: CESifo DICE Report 04 (2006) 2, pp. 61-68

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Statistical Assistance for Programme Selection - For a Better Targeting of Active Labour Market Policies in Switzerland

Behncke, Stefanie; Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - In: CESifo DICE Report 4 (2006) 2, pp. 61-68

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The curse and blessing of training the unemployed in a changing economy: the case of East Germany after unification

Lechner, Michael; Miquel, Ruth; Wunsch, Conny - 2005

We analyse the effects of public sector sponsored training for the unemployed in the transition process in East Germany. For the microeconometric analysis, we use a new, large and informative administrative database that allows us to use matching methods to reduce potential selection bias,...

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Active labour market policy in East Germany: waiting for the economy to take off

Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - 2006

We investigate the effects of the most important East German active labour market programmes on the labour market outcomes of their participants. The analysis is based on a large and informative individual database coming from administrative data sources. Using matching methods, we find that...

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Are training programs more effective when unemployment is high?

Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - 2007

We estimate short, medium, and long-run individual labor market effects of training programs for unemployed by following program participation on a monthly basis over a ten-year period. Since analyzing the effectiveness of training over such a long period is impossible with experimental data, we...

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Model-based classification of regional labour markets: for purposes of labour market policy

Blien, Uwe; Hirschenauer, Franziska; van, Phan thi Hong - 2006

In many countries fairly large and persistent regional disparities can be observed for a variety of economic indicators. Since these disparities can not be reduced to one single dimension, a classification system is needed to give a parsimonious overview. The article presents a system which is...

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