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Training and the private sector : international comparisons

Lynch, Lisa M. (ed.) - 1994

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Innovativity : A Comparison Across Seven European Countries

Mohnen, Pierre - 2006

: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Italy for the year 1992. Based on the estimation of a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466388

The "Austerity Myth" : Gain Without Pain?

Perotti, Roberto - 2011

detailed case studies, two - Denmark and Ireland - undertaken under fixed exchange rates (the most relevant case for many … Eurozone countries today) and two - Finland and Sweden - after floating the currency …All four episodes were associated with an expansion; but only in Denmark the driver of growth was internal demand …

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International Trade and Job Polarization : Evidence at the Worker-Level

Keller, Wolfgang - 2016

workers and firms in Denmark between 1999 and 2009, we use instrumental-variables techniques and a quasi-natural experiment to …

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Predicting the Efficacy of Future Training Programs Using Past Experiences

Hotz, V. Joseph - 1999

We investigate the problem of predicting the average effect of a new training program using experiences with previous implementations. There are two principal complications in doing so. First, the population in which the new program will be implemented may differ from the population in which the...

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Labor Markets and Evaluations of Vocational Training Programs in the Public High Schools - Toward a Framework for Analysis

Gustman, Alan L. - 1980

A simplified model is constructed to analyze the role played by vocational training programs In high schools. The model assumes that there are two kinds of educational programs in high schools, vocational and general. It also assumes that there are two types of jobs for high school graduates....

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

Heckman, James J. - 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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New Evidence on Workplace Education

Krueger, Alan - 1994

This paper presents an analysis of the impact of a workplace education program that was administered by a community college at two companies. One of the companies we study is in the manufacturing sector and the other is in the service sector. The analysis relies on longitudinal administrative...

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Making the Most Out Of Social Experiments : Reducing the Intrinsic Uncertainty in Evidence from Randomized Trials with an Application to the JTPA Exp

Clements, Nancy - 1994

This paper demonstrates that even under ideal conditions, social experiments in general only uniquely determine the mean impacts of programs but not the median or the distribution of program impacts. The conventional common parameter evaluation model widely used in econometrics is one case where...

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Choosing Among Alternative Nonexperimental Methods for Estimating the Impact of Social Programs : The Case of Manpower Training

Heckman, James J. - 1989

The recent literature on evaluating manpower training programs demonstrates that alternative nonexperimental estimators of the same program produce a array of estimates of program impact. These findings have led to the call for experiments to be used to perform credible program evaluations....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012476195

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