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Unobservable, but unimportant? : the influence of personality traits (and other usually unobserved variables) for the evaluation of labor market policies
Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Mitnik, Oscar A. - 2014
Many commonly used treatment effects estimators rely on the unconfoundedness assumption ("selection on observables") which is fundamentally non-testable. When evaluating the effects of labor market policies, researchers need to observe variables that affect both treatment participation and labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010386595
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Unobservable, but unimportant? : the influence of personality traits (and other usually unobserved variables) for the evaluation of labor market policies
Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Mitnik, Oscar A. - 2014
Many commonly used treatment effects estimators rely on the unconfoundedness assumption ("selection on observables") which is fundamentally non-testable. When evaluating the effects of labor market policies, researchers need to observe variables that affect both treatment participation and labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010400598
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Start-up subsidies for the unemployed: long-term evidence and effect heterogeneity
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - 2010
regarding long-term effects and effect heterogeneity. This paper aims to close this gap. We use administrative and survey data … long-run. Moreover, we consider effect heterogeneity with respect to several dimensions and show that start-up subsidies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269577
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Start-up subsidies for the unemployed: Long-term evidence and effect heterogeneity
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - 2010
regarding long-term effects and effect heterogeneity. This paper aims to close this gap. We use administrative and survey data … long-run. Moreover, we consider effect heterogeneity with respect to several dimensions and show that start-up subsidies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271358
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Start-up subsidies for the unemployed : long-term evidence and effect heterogeneity
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - 2010
regarding long-term effects and effect heterogeneity. This paper aims to close this gap. We use administrative and survey data … long-run. Moreover, we consider effect heterogeneity with respect to several dimensions and show that start-up subsidies …-employment ; evaluation ; long-term effects ; effect heterogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941759
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Start-up subsidies for the unemployed : long-term evidence and effect heterogeneity
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - 2010
regarding long-term effects and effect heterogeneity. This paper aims to close this gap. We use administrative and survey data … long-run. Moreover, we consider effect heterogeneity with respect to several dimensions and show that start-up subsidies …-employment ; evaluation ; long-term effects ; effect heterogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003945974
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Personality traits and the evaluation of start-up subsidies
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2016
Many countries support business start-ups to spur economic growth and reduce unemployment with different programmes. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal interpretation of the results only if all relevant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420781
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Regional effect heterogeneity of start-up subsidies for the unemployed
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen - 2013
Recent microeconometric evaluation studies have shown that start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are an effective policy tool to improve long-term employment and income prospects of participants, in particular compared to other active labor market programs (e.g. training, job search...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009757302
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Subsidized start-ups out of unemployment : a comparison to regular business start-ups
Caliendo, Marco; Hogenacker, Jens; Künn, Steffen; … - 2015
Offering unemployed individuals a subsidy to become self-employed is a widespread active labor market policy strategy. Previous studies have illustrated its high effectiveness to help participants escaping unemployment and improving their labor market prospects compared to other unemployed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010473187
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Personality traits and the evaluation of start-up subsidies
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2016
Many countries support business start-ups to spur economic growth and reduce unemployment with different programmes. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal interpretation of the results only if all relevant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449690