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Sind ARGEn wirklich besser? Anmerkungen zur Evaluation der Betreuungsorganisation im Bereich der Grundsicherung
Schneider, Hilmar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Mit der Einführung von Arbeitslosengeld II wurde auch die behördliche Zuständigkeit für die Grundsicherung einer grundlegenden Reorganisation unterzogen. Während in der überwiegenden Mehrheit der Kommunen in Form der sogenannten Arbeitsgemeinschaften eine Mischverwaltung aus Bundesagentur...
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The IZA Evaluation Dataset: Towards Evidence-Based Labor Policy-Making
Caliendo, Marco; Falk, Armin; Kaiser, Lutz C.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The evaluation of labor market policies has become an important issue in many European countries. In recent years, a … number of them have opened their administrative databases for evaluation studies. The advantages of administrative data are … purposes. Therefore, information that might be relevant for economic modeling is often absent. The IZA Evaluation Dataset aims …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805614
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The IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey: A Scientific Use File
Arni, Patrick; Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This reference paper describes the sampling and contents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey and outlines its vast …
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Work Experience as a Source of Specification Error in Earnings Models: Implications for Gender Wage Decompositions
Regan, Tracy L.; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We address the bias from using potential vs. actual experience in earnings models. Statistical tests reject the …
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Nonstandard Forms and Measures of Employment and Unemployment in Transition: A Comparative Study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia
Brown, J. David; Earle, John; Gimpelson, Vladimir; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of transition economy labor markets have typically relied upon. We analyze microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard,...
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Match Bias from Earnings Imputation in the Current Population Survey: The Case of Imperfect Matching
Bollinger, Christopher R.; Hirsch, Barry T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper examines alternative forms of match bias arising from earnings imputation. Wage equation parameters are estimated based on mixed samples of workers who do and do not report earnings, the latter group being assigned earnings of donors who share some but not all the attributes of the...
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Flexible Approximation of Subjective Expectations Using Probability Questions: An Application to the Investment Game
Bissonnette, Luc; Bellemare, Charles; Kröger, Sabine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We use spline interpolation to approximate the subjective cumulative distribution function of an economic agent over the future realization of a continuous (possibly censored) random variable. The method proposed exploits information collected using a small number of probability questions on...
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Item Non-Response on Income and Wealth Questions
Riphahn, Regina T.; Serfling, Oliver - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
After reviewing the literature on item non-response we focus on three issues: First, is there significant heterogeneity in item non-response across financial questions and in the association of covariates with item non-response across outcomes? Second, can the informational value of surveys be...
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School Progression and the Grade Distribution of Students: Evidence from the Current Population Survey
Cascio, Elizabeth U. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Education researchers have long made inferences about grade retention from the grade distribution of same-aged students. Recent economics studies have followed suit. This paper examines the validity of the “below grade” proxy for retention using data from supplemental questionnaires...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822729
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Item Non-Response and Imputation of Annual Labor Income in Panel Surveys from a Cross-National Perspective
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets (German SOEP, British BHPS, Australian HILDA) we investigate a) the selectivity of item non-response (INR) and b) the impact of imputation as a prominent post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement...
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