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Von der Frühverrentung zum längeren Erwerbsleben: Transferleistungen, Arbeitsmarktpolitik und Weiterbildung
Eichhorst, Werner - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Mittelpunkt, bevor die Situation im Bereich der beruflichen Weiterbildung genauer untersucht wird. Diese ist zwar ein zentraler …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822533
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Some Practical Guidance for the Implementation of Propensity Score Matching
Caliendo, Marco; Kopeinig, Sabine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
to discuss these implementation issues and give some guidance to researchers who want to use PSM for evaluation purposes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703025
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Feedback and Incentives: Experimental Evidence
Eriksson, Tor; Poulsen, Anders; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper experimentally investigates the impact of different pay and relative performance information policies on employee effort. We explore three information policies: No feedback about relative performance, feedback given halfway through the production period, and continuously updated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703358
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Estimating the Returns to Community College Schooling for Displaced Workers
Jacobson, Louis; LaLonde, Robert; Sullivan, Daniel G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Studies show that high-tenure displaced workers typically incur substantial long-term earnings losses. As these losses have become increasingly apparent, policy makers have significantly expanded resources for retraining, much of which takes place in regular community college classes. To analyze...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703488
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Evaluating an Innovative Redundancy-Retraining Project: The Austrian Steel Foundation
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
This paper evaluates an Austrian manpower training program, which is highly innovative in its content and financing - and could therefore serve as a role model for other programs. In the late 1980s privatization and down-sizing of nationalized steel firms have lead to large-scale redundancies. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703519
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Evaluating the German "Mini-Job" Reform Using a True Natural Experiment
Caliendo, Marco; Wrohlich, Katharina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
income below a certain threshold from taxes and employees’ social security contributions. We carry out an ex-post evaluation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703545
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Evaluating Immigration Policy Potentials and Limitations
Fertig, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Based on the ideas developed in the literature on the evaluation of active labor market policy, this paper provides a … framework for the evaluation of key elements of immigration policy. To this end, the fundamental ingredients of evaluating … evaluation of the effect of immigration policy is a particularly complex task since it requires unusually strong assumptions to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703644
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Individual Incentives in Program Participation: Splitting up the Process in Assignment and Enrollment
Weber, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
In this paper we investigate two stages in the process that leads to participation in ALMP programs. We use unique administrative data from the Austrian unemployment registers which allow us to distinguish between caseworker assignment and actual program enrollment. Although 25% of newly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703698
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Dann waren’s nur noch vier...Wie viele (und welche) Maßnahmen der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik brauchen wir noch? Eine Bilanz nach der Evaluation der Hartz-Reformen
Eichhorst, Werner; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
policies in Germany were overhauled considerably. The paper reviews the recent evaluation findings and draws some conclusion … placement vouchers) and calls for a systematic evaluation of all schemes not scrutinized so far. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762166
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The Microeconometric Estimation of Treatment Effects - An Overview
Caliendo, Marco; Hujer, Reinhard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
focus on microeconometric evaluation which has to solve the fundamental evaluation problem and overcome the possible … occurrence of selection bias. When using non-experimental data, different evaluation approaches can be thought of. The aim of … major topic in evaluation research in recent years, we will also assess the ability of each estimator to deal with it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762283