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Short-term training programs for immigrants: do effects differ from natives and why?
Aldashev, Alisher; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
propensity score matching estimators. To explain potential differences in effects between the groups, we suggest and apply a … decomposition method based on the matching procedure that allows identification of differences due to observable characteristics and …
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Employment Effects of the Provision of Specific Professional Skills and Techniques in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Speckesser, Stefan - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
linear matching based on the estimated propensity score to estimate the average treatment effect on the treated of SPST …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097803
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Die Auswirkungen öffentlicher Gründungsförderung auf das Überleben und Wachstum junger Unternehmen
Almus, Matthias; Prantl, Susanne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001
identifiziert werden. Die empirischen Analysen basieren auf einem statistischen Matching-Verfahren, mit dem für jedes identifizierte … causal effects a statistical matching procedure is used to draw an adequate control group from the pool of all available …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097835
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The wage effects of entering motherhood: a within-firm matching approach
Beblo, Miriam; Bender, Stefan; Wolf, Elke - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
We analyze the wage effects of employment breaks of women entering motherhood using a novel within-firm matching …. Using an administrative German data set we investigate three different matching procedures based on information two years … before birth: (1) exact matching on individual characteristics, (2) propensity score matching and (3) a combined procedure of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098246
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Clustering life trajectories: A new divisive hierarchical clustering algorithm for discrete-valued discrete time series
Dlugosz, Stephan - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
A new algorithm for clustering life course trajectories is presented and tested with large register data. Life courses are represented as sequences on a monthly timescale for the working-life with an age span from 16-65. A meaningful clustering result for this kind of data provides interesting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008869216
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Is Temporary Employment a Stepping Stone for Unemployed School Leavers?
Verhofstadt, Elsy; Goebel, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
Many school-leavers enter the labour market via temporary employment. In this paper we investigate the impact of a temporary employment spell at the start of the career on the transition rate into permanent employment. We compare the case of temporary employment to the hypothetical case of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098327
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An unconditional basic income in the family context: Labor supply and distributional effects
Horstschräer, Julia; Clauss, Markus; Schnabel, Reinhold - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
In this paper we estimate the effects of an unconditional basic income on labor supply and income distribution with a special focus on the incentives to work in the family context. An unconditional basic income guarantees every citizen a minimum income without any means-testing. We simulate a...
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Do employment subsidies reduce early apprenticeship dropout?
Fries, Jan; Göbel, Christian; Maier, Michael F. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
We evaluate the effect of the Apprenticeship Bonus, an employment subsidy programme, on early dropout of apprenticeship. Eligibility to the programme is restricted to school leavers who have actively searched for apprenticeship training to start immediately after leaving school, but were...
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The own-wage elasticity of labor demand: A meta-regression analysis
Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
, we conduct a comprehensive meta-regression analysis to re-assess the empirical literature on labor demand elasticities …
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Public Interest vs. Interest Groups: Allowance Allocation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme
Anger, Niels; Böhringer, Christoph; Oberndorfer, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
This paper presents a political-economy analysis of allowance allocation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). A common-agency model suggests that a politicalsupport maximizing government considers the preferences of sectoral interest groups besides public interest when allocating...
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