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Regional treatment intensity as an instrument for the evaluation of labour market policies
Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2004
The effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) on individual employment chances and earnings are evaluated by nonparametric instrumental variables based on Swiss administrative data with detailed re-gional information. Using an exogenous variation in the participation probabilities across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009144746
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Combining Matching and Nonparametric IV Estimation: Theory and an Application to the Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies
Lechner, Michael; Froelich, Markus - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2010
In this paper, we show how instrumental variable and matching estimators can be combined in order to identify a broader … often represent only a small subset of the entire population. By combining IV with matching, we can estimate also the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008542822
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Exploiting regional treatment intensity for the evaluation of labour market policies
Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2006
variables and matching estimators. Very informative administrative Swiss data with detailed regional information are combined …-defined local labour markets. This allows pursuing instrumental variable as well as matching estimation strategies. A specific …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005200681