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A shortage of skilled labor and low female labor market participation are problems many developed countries have to … female-specific labor market constraints (preferences for flexible working hours, discrimination), this is a difficult task …, and the question arises whether active labor market policies (ALMP) are an appropriate tool to do so. Promoting self …
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this paper we present key results from the evaluation of "Perspektive 50plus", a large-scale active labor market program …Job search assistance and intensified counseling have been found to be effective for labor market integration by a … use a combination of different evaluation estimators to check the sensitivity of the results to selection, substitution …
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How should the productivity of research universities be measured? This task is difficult but important. The recent Research Excellence Framework in the UK, which was based on peer review, suggests that there has been a marked improvement in UK academic research in economics and in many other...
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most vulnerable groups into the labor market, in particular the long-term unemployed and the low skilled. There has been a … sort of paradigm shift that goes beyond active labor market policies and public direct job creation in favor of allowing … for a more flexible labor market to emerge, thus implying a growing low-pay sector. This policy reversal can be seen as a …
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We analyze the effects of an ALMP for disadvantaged workers implemented in a depressed area of Italy. Using propensity-score matching, we find that a) the employment subsidy had a positive effect for participants on both the probability of finding a job and income, b) the outcome of the policy...
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Offering unemployed individuals a subsidy to become self-employed is a widespread active labor market policy strategy … market prospects compared to other unemployed individuals. However, the examination of start-up subsidies from a business …
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Recent microeconometric evaluation studies have shown that start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are an … active labor market programs (e.g. training, job search assistance or job creation schemes). What has not been examined yet … restrictions in areas with relatively bad labor market conditions generally increase entries into start-up programs as job offers …
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We are the first to investigate longer-term effects of pharmacological treatment of ADHD on children's health. We rely on a difference-in-differences strategy while exploiting Danish register-based panel data for children born in 1990-1999. We study effects of treatment initiated between ages...
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This reference paper describes the sampling and contents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey and outlines its vast …
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Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate … testable predictions regarding heterogeneous treatment effects from such programs. Using a large randomized evaluation in the … labor market discrimination. We do find a short-run effect on business ownership for those unemployed at baseline, but this …
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