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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420781
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009540098
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Do weak institutions prolong crises? : on the identification, characteristics, and duration of declines during economic slumps
Bluhm, Richard; Crombrugghe, Denis de; Szirmai, Adam - 2014
This paper defines economic slumps as sequences of structural breaks exhibiting a specific pattern. We identify 58 such episodes between 1950 and 2008 among 138 countries, and then examine the phases of decline and their duration. In some countries declines last extremely long, and we put...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010234524
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Government deficits in the European Union : an analysis of entry and exit dynamics
Bayar, Ali H.; Smeets, Bram - 2009
The extent of government deficits and debt has been one of the most debated issues in recent years. However, much less has been contributed about their dynamics. Yet, the issue of entering into and exiting from excessive deficits is critical in the Economic and Monetary Union since the Stability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003857171
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Are the Spanish long-term unemployed unemployable?
Bentolila, Samuel; García Peréz, José Ignacio; … - 2017
Long-term unemployment reached unprecedented levels in Spain in the wake of the Great Recession and it still affects around 57% of the unemployed. We document the sources that contributed to the rise in long-term unemployment and analyze its persistence using state-of-the-art duration models. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602757
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008757564
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Monitoring, sanctions and front-loading of job search in a non-stationary model
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Launov, Andrey; Van der … - 2011
We develop and estimate a non-stationary job search model to evaluate a scheme that monitors job search effort and sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insufficient. The model reveals that such schemes provide incentives to the unemployed to front-load search effort prior to...
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Imperfect monitoring of job search : structural estimation and policy design
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Launov, Andrey; Van der … - 2017
We build and estimate a non-stationary structural job search model that incorporates the main stylized features of a typical job search monitoring scheme in unemployment insurance (UI) and acknowledges that search effort and requirements are measured imperfectly. Based on Belgian data,...
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Sensitivity of matching-based program evaluations to the availability of control variables
Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - 2011
Based on new, exceptionally informative and large German linked employer-employee administrative data, we investigate the question whether the omission of important control variables in matching estimation leads to biased impact estimates of typical active labour market programs for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011187
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792179