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The impact of public employment : evidence from Bonn
Becker, Sascha O.; Heblich, Stephan; Sturm, Daniel - 2018
This paper evaluates the impact of public employment on private sector activity using the relocation of the German federal government from Berlin to Bonn in the wake of the Second World War as a source of exogenous variation. To guide our empirical analysis, we develop a simple economic...
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Work disability, work, and justification bias in Europe and the U.S.
Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, Arthur van - 2009
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different...
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The objective measurement of world-leading research
Oswald, Andrew J. - 2015
How should the productivity of research universities be measured? This task is difficult but important. The recent Research Excellence Framework in the UK, which was based on peer review, suggests that there has been a marked improvement in UK academic research in economics and in many other...
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Youth unemployment and active labor market policies in Europe
Caliendo, Marco; Schmidl, Ricarda - 2015 - Forthcoming in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015
courses, job search assistance and monitoring, subsidized employment, and public work programs. For policy makers, it is of … job search assistance (with and without monitoring) results in overwhelmingly positive effects, we find more mixed effects …
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The Ecological Scarcity Method for the European Union : A Volkswagen Research Initiative: Environmental Assessments
Ahbe, Stephan; Weihofen, Simon; Wellge, Steffen - 2018
) to the EU and its 28 member states. It provides a powerful tool for unbiased environmental assessments in enterprises and … investment decisions. Contents Methodological Basics Data Research and Results Eco Factors for EU28 Target Groups Practitioners …
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Aid in Transition : EU Development Cooperation with Russia and Eurasia
Grigoriadis, Theocharis N. - 2015
under imperfect monitoring, optimization of donor policy preferences, and ex-post evaluation of aid programs. The … Eurasia. EU development aid provided a set of reform incentives to post-Soviet planners. It created the grounds for the … Economics and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley. Aid in Transition: EU Development Cooperation with Russia …
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The European Impact Assessment and the Environment
Bizer, Kilian - 2010
-Criteria Analysis for Policy Evaluation -- Conclusions …
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Market-Conform Valuation of Options
Herwig, Tobias - 2006
The focus of this volume is on the development of new approaches for the market-conform valuation of newly issued derivatives. The first chapter presents a flexible approach to construct the binomial process of the underlying asset price by using a simultaneously backward and forward induction...
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Does evaluating teachers make a difference?
Briole, Simon; Maurin, Eric - 2019
In France, secondary school teachers are evaluated every six or seven years by senior experts of the Ministry of education. These external evaluations mostly involve the supervision of one class session and a debriefing interview, but have nonetheless a direct impact on teachers' career...
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Evaluating an innovative redundancy-retraining project : the Austrian Steel Foundation
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2001
This paper evaluates an Austrian manpower training program, which is highly innovative in its content and financing – and could therefore serve as a role model for other programs. In the late 1980s privatization and down-sizing of nationalized steel firms have lead to large-scale redundancies....
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