This paper advocates the use of a nonparametric bounds analysis to check the robustness of the results of applied evaluation studies to the problem of a lack of common support. The typical responses by researchers of either ignoring it, or obtaining estimates only for the subpopulation within...

This paper investigates the properties of Box-Cox specifications for the labour supply of married women in France, estimated in four stages involving two dichotomous models, a regression with selectivity correction, and the calculation of sample means. Previous estimates implied wage...

The paper studies the returns from enterprise-related continuous vocational training on individual earnings, unemployment probabilities, and other labour market indicators in East Germany after unification. It attempts to solve the intrinsic identification problem of such evaluation problems...