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The microeconometric estimation of treatment effects: an overview

Caliendo, Marco; Hujer, Reinhard - 2005

The need to evaluate the performance of active labour market policies is not questioned any longer. Even though OECD countries spend significant shares of national resources on these measures, unemployment rates remain high or even increase. We focus on microeconometric evaluation which has to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267682

New evidence on the effects of job creation schemes in Germany : a matching approach with threefold heterogeneity

Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2003

justifies the application of a matching estimator but also allows to take account of threefold heterogeneity. The recently …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276813

The Effects of Public Sector Sponsored Training on Individual Employment Performance in East Germany

Hujer, Reinhard; Wellner, Marc - 2000

problem, i.e. to find an adequate control group for the group of trainees, we employ matching methods. The training effect is …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262357

New Evidence on the Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany – A Matching Approach with Threefold Heterogeneity

Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco; Thomsen, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

justifies the application of a matching estimator but also allows to take account of threefold heterogeneity. The recently …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762428

The Microeconometric Estimation of Treatment Effects - An Overview

Caliendo, Marco; Hujer, Reinhard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762283

The Effects of Public Sector Sponsored Training on Individual Employment Performance in East Germany

Hujer, Reinhard; Wellner, Marc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

problem, i.e. to find an adequate control group for the group of trainees, we employ matching methods. The training effect is …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703806

Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policy: Methodological Concepts and Empirical Estimates

Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco - 2000

Persistently high unemployment, tight government budgets and the growing scepticism regarding the effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) are the basis for a growing interest in evaluating these measures. This paper intends to explain the need for evaluation on the micro- and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262444

The Effects of Vocational Training Programmes on the Duration of Unemployment in Eastern Germany

Hujer, Reinhard; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Zeiss, Christopher - 2004

This paper focuses on the effects of vocational training programmes on the duration of unemployment in Eastern Germany. We use information from administrative data of the Federal Employment Office. To allow for observable and possible unobservable influences we apply a multivariate mixed...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261872

Macroeconomic Impacts of ALMP on the Matching Process in West Germany

Hujer, Reinhard; Zeiss, Christopher - 2003

This paper investigates the macroeconomic effects of job creation schemes and vocational training on the matching … from 1999 to 2003. The empirical model relies on a dynamic version of a matching function augmented by ALMP. In order to … results obtained from our estimates indicate that vocational training does not significantly affect the matching process and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261624

The Employment Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany : A Microeconometric Evaluation

Caliendo, Marco; Hujer, Reinhard; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2005

justifies the application of a matching estimator and allows to account for individual (group-specific) and regional effect … decisions which have to be made during implementation of the matching estimator, e.g. choosing the matching algorithm or …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262224