Danish reform. We separately identify the effect of aid from that of other observed and unobserved variables such as parental … income. We exploit the combination of a kinked aid scheme and a reform of the student aid scheme to identify the effect of … borrowing constraints only deters college enrollment to a minor extent. -- College attendance ; educational subsidies ; reform …

This paper investigates long-term returns from unemployment compensation, exploiting variation from the UK JSA reform …

Recent research convincingly shows that crises beget reform. Although the consensus is that economic crises foster … macroeconomic stabilization, it is silent on which types of crises cause which types of reform. Is it economic or political crises … interdependencies between the two types of crises, feedbacks between the two types of reform, the use of alternative measures of …

The so-called Hartz reform has introduced fundamental changes for publicly sponsored training in Germany. This concerns … most important type of training programs before and after the reform by using administrative data of the Federal Employment … training programs had a positive impact on employment prospects already before the reform. Results for the relative short …

contours of the EPL reform. In this article we used an equilibrium unemployment model to investigate the virtue of an EPL … reform whose modality is a lessening in the red tape and legal costs associated with layoffs and the introduction of an U ….S. like experience rating system modelled as a combination of a layoff tax and a payroll subsidy. The reform considered shows …