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Counseling and Monitoring of Unemployed Workers: Theory and Evidence from a Controlled Social Experiment

van den Berg, Gerard J.; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2001

We investigate the effect of counseling and monitoring on the individual transition rate to employment. We theoretically analyze these policies in a job search model with two search channels and endogenous search effort. In the empirical analysis we use unique administrative and survey data...

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Estimating equilibrium effects of job search assistance

Gautier, Pieter; Muller, Paul; van der Klaauw, Bas; … - 2012

Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there are no spillovers between participants and …

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Microeconometric Evaluation of the Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland

Lechner, Michael; Gerfin, Michael - 2000

In the second part of the 1990?s Switzerland conducted an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing a wide variety of programmes. We evaluate the effects of these programmes on the individual employment probability of potential participants. Our econometric analysis uses...

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Active labor market policy effects in a dynamic setting

Crépon, Bruno; Ferracci, Marc; Jolivet, Grégory; van … - 2008

This paper implements a method to identify and estimate treatment effects in a dynamic setting where treatments may … that effects of the treatment on the treated at a given date can be identified even though non-treated may be treated later … duration until treatment and the counterfactual durations until exit. To illustrate the approach, the paper studies the effect …

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Equity, efficiency and growth : the future of the welfare state

Baldassarri, Mario (ed.); Paganetto, Luigi (contributor); … - 1996 - 1. publ.

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Raising female employment : reflexions and policy tools

Garibaldi, Pietro; Wasmer, Etienne - 2003

While there is consensus on the need to raise the time spent in the market by European women, it is not clear how these goals should be achieved. Tax wedges, assistance in the job search process, and part-time jobs are policy instruments that are widely debated in policy circles. The paper...

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Sequential Matching Estimation of Dynamic Causal Models

Lechner, Michael - 2004

This paper proposes sequential matching and inverse selection probability weighting to estimate dynamic causal effects. The sequential matching estimators extend simple, matching estimators based on propensity scores for static causal analysis that have been frequently applied in the evaluation...

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The Success of Job Applications : A New Approach to Program Evaluation

Falk, Armin; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2004

In this paper, we suggest a novel approach to program evaluation that allows identification of the causal effect of a training program on the likelihood of being invited to a job interview under weak assumptions. The idea is to measure the program-effects by pre- and posttreatment data that are...

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Labor Market Institutions, Wages, and Investment

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2004

Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wage inequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are...

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Discretionary Measures of Active Labor Market Policy: The German Employment Promotion Reform in Perspective

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000

This paper provides a preliminary assessment of recent reforms of German employment promotion policy. While several recent studies analyze the impact of measures of employment promotion for the case of Germany, no comparable study exists on the aggregate level, thus precluding any assessment of...

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