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Flexibility and Job Creation : Lessons for Germany

Heckman, James J. - 2002

This paper examines the performance of the German economy and the role of the regulation and welfare state policies in affecting its performance. While the German economy is still strong, incentives in place are likely to impair future German competitiveness and productivity

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Models for the Analysis of Labor Force Dynamics

Flinn, Christopher J. - 1982

is inconsistent with the data. The second set of empirical results is a test of the hypothesis that "unemployment" and …

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The Cost of Job Security Regulation : Evidence from Latin American Labor Markets

Heckman, James J. - 2000

on employment. We show that job security policies have substantial impact on the level and the distribution of employment … in Latin America. They reduce employment and promote inequality. The institutional organization of the labor market … affects both employment and inequality …

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Evaluation of the Reggio Approach to Early Education

Biroli, Pietro - 2017

employment, socio-emotional skills, high school graduation, election participation, and obesity. Comparisons with individuals …

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Effect of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation Intervention on Labor Market Outcomes at Age 31

Gertler, Paul J.; Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We report the labor market effects of the Jamaica Early Childhood Stimulation intervention at age 31. The study is a small-sample randomized early childhood education stimulation intervention targeting stunted children living in the poor neighborhoods of Kingston, Jamaica. Implemented in...

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Labor Supply Estimates For Public Policy Evaluation

Borjas, George J. - 1978

In recent years, the study of labor supply has occupied the attention of a large number of economists. With the growth in interest in the topic and with the inevitable diversity of economic models and statistical methods proposed by new entrants in the field, the literature has developed its own...

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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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What Do Bureaucrats Do? The Effects of Performance Standards and Bureaucratic Preferences on Acceptance into the JTPA Program

Heckman, James J. - 1996

monetary rewards based on the employment levels and wage rates attained by their trainees upon completion of the program …

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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....

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Are Unemployment and Out of the Labor Force Behaviorally Distinct Labor Force States?

Flinn, Christopher J. - 1982

rate from unemployment to employment exceeds the exit rate from out of the labor force to employment. This evidence is … offer distributions are log concave, the exit rate from unemployment to employment exceeds the exit rate from out of the …This paper formulates and tests the hypothesis that the categories unemployed and out of the labor force are …

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