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The Propensity Score: A Means to An End
Augurzky, Boris; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2001
Propensity score matching is a prominent strategy to reduce imbalance in observational studies. However, if imbalance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262475
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The Propensity Score: A Means to An End
Augurzky, Boris; Schmidt, Christoph M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
Propensity score matching is a prominent strategy to reduce imbalance in observational studies. However, if imbalance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703155
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Evaluating the labor-market effects of compulsory military service
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; … - 2009
We identify the causal effect of compulsory military service on conscripts' subsequent labor-market outcomes by exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany during the 1950s. Unbiased estimates of the effect of military service on lifetime earnings, wages, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269405
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Evaluating the Labor-Market Effects of Compulsory Military Service
Bauer, Thomas; Bender, Stefan; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We identify the causal effect of compulsory military service on conscripts’ subsequent labor-market outcomes by exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany during the 1950s. Unbiased estimates of the effect of military service on lifetime earnings, wages,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527325
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Discretionary Measures of Active Labor Market Policy: The German Employment Promotion Reform in Perspective
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000
for the first time in the history of German employment promotion that evaluation should be an integral part of the … – evaluation itself has mistakenly been understood by the legislator as a pure accounting exercise. We discuss this problem from … the perspective of the recent evaluation literature in economics and statistics, thus providing a frame of reference for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262390
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Active Labor Market Policy in Germany - Is There a Successful Policy Strategy?
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Schneider, Hilmar - 2002
Each year Germany and many other developed economies spend tens of billions of Euros on active measures of employment promotion with the explicit aim of contributing to the reduction of unemployment. Yet, high unemployment has universally been a persistent problem throughout the last two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262675
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Active Labor Market Policy in Germany - Is There a Successful Policy Strategy?
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Schneider, Hilmar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Each year Germany and many other developed economies spend tens of billions of Euros on active measures of employment promotion with the explicit aim of contributing to the reduction of unemployment. Yet, high unemployment has universally been a persistent problem throughout the last two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822395
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Discretionary Measures of Active Labor Market Policy: The German Employment Promotion Reform in Perspective
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
for the first time in the history of German employment promotion that evaluation should be an integral part of the … - evaluation itself has mistakenly been understood by the legislator as a pure accounting exercise. We discuss this problem from … the perspective of the recent evaluation literature in economics and statistics, thus providing a frame of reference for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763902