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The Objective Measurement of World-Leading Research

Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

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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Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Countries often spend billions on university research. There is growing interest in how to assess whether that money is well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics....

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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. …

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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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. …

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