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Personality traits and the evaluation of start-up subsidies
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2016
. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal … success, these variables were neglected in evaluation studies so far due to data limitations. In this paper, we evaluate a new … administrative-survey data allows us to incorporate usually unobserved personality measures in the evaluation and investigate their …
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The exhaustion of unemployment benefits in Belgium : does it enhance the probability of employment?
Cockx, Bart; Ries, Jean - 2004
In Belgium unemployment insurance benefits can only exhaust for one category of workers: partners of workers with (replacement) labour income (mostly women) may loose their entitlement after an unemployment duration ranging from two to eight years, depending on individual characteristics. We...
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Does active labour market policy work? : lessons from the Swedish experiences
Calmfors, Lars; Forslund, Anders; Hemström, Maria - 2002
The Swedish experiences of the 1990s provide a unique example of how large-scale active labour market programmes (ALMPs) have been used as a means to fight high unemployment. This paper surveys the empirical studies of the effects of ALMPs in Sweden. On the whole, ALMPs have probably reduced...
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Behind the GATE experiment : evidence on effects of and rationales for subsidized entrepreneurship training
Fairlie, Robert W.; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - 2014
testable predictions regarding heterogeneous treatment effects from such programs. Using a large randomized evaluation in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404444
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Quick job entry or long-term human capital development? : the dynamic effects of alternative training schemes
Osikominu, Aderonke - 2012
the low-cost short-term training schemes are cost efficient in the short run. -- training ; program evaluation ; duration …
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Do firms benefit from active labour market policies?
Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny; Scioch, Patrycja - 2013 - This version: September 2013
This paper investigates the link between variation in the supply of workers who participate in specific types of active labour market policies (ALMPs) and firm performance using a new exceptionally informative German employer-employee data base. For identification we exploit that German local...
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Long-term effects of hiring subsidies for unemployed youths : beware of spillovers
Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
We use (donut) regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10...
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The employment effect of reforming a public employment agency
Launov, Andrey; Wälde, Klaus - 2015
By how much does an increase in operating effectiveness of a public employment agency (PEA) and a reduction of unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the...
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The threat of monitoring job search : a discontinuity design
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2010
. -- evaluation ; monitoring ; job-search ; threat effect ; regression-discontinuity ; grouped data …
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Priority to unemployed immigrants : a Causal machine learning evaluation of training in Belgium
Cockx, Bart; Lechner, Michael; Bollens, Joost - 2020
Based on administrative data of unemployed in Belgium, we estimate the labour market effects of three training programmes at various aggregation levels using Modified Causal Forests, a causal machine learning estimator. While all programmes have positive effects after the lock-in period, we find...
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