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Estimating Workforce Disposal in the Italian Labour Market

Contini, Bruno; Grand, Elisa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Italy's labour market suffers from a serious pathology, in addition to the increasing precariousness of the young workforce common to all EU member countries: flows from regular employment to non-employment are very often dead-ends. A vast number of young individuals who lose their job only a...

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Does Federally-Funded Job Training Work? Nonexperimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and Firms

Andersson, Fredrik; Holzer, Harry J.; Lane, Julia; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We study the job training provided under the US Workforce Investment Act (WIA) to adults and dislocated workers in two states. Our substantive contributions center on impacts estimated non-experimentally using administrative data. These impacts compare WIA participants who do and do not receive...

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Using State Administrative Data to Measure Program Performance

Mueser, Peter; Troske, Kenneth R.; Gorislavsky, Alexey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper uses administrative data from Missouri to examine the sensitivity of job training program impact estimates based on alternative nonexperimental methods. In addition to simple regression adjustment, we consider Mahalanobis distance matching and a variety of methods using propensity...

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The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program

Heckman, James J.; Smith, Jeffrey A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper decomposes the participation process of a prototypical program into eligibility, awareness, application, acceptance and enrollment. With this decomposition, we determine the sources of unequal participation for different groups, and demonstrate that variables often have very different...

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Don't Worry, Be Happy? Happiness and Reemployment

Krause, Annabelle - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

significant inverted U-shaped relationship exists between residual happiness and an unemployed individual's future reemployment … a predictor for self-employment and less for standard reemployment. Related findings suggest that happiness matters for … male unemployed, and the concept of locus of control is able to explain part of the effect. If reemployment and higher …

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Worker Displacement during the Transition: Experience from Slovenia

Orazem, Peter; Vodopivec, Milan; Wu, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

reemployment. Correcting for selection, real wage losses for displaced workers are comparable to those reported for displaced …

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How Destructive Is Creative Destruction? The Costs of Worker Displacement

Huttunen, Kristiina; Møen, Jarle; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We analyze short and long-term effects of worker displacement. Our focus is on prime-age male workers displaced from Norwegian manufacturing plants. We find that displacement increases the probability of exiting the labor force by about 5 percentage points. This indicates that studies using data...

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