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Heterogeneous treatment and self-selection in a wage subsidy experiment
Brouillette, Dany (contributor); Lacroix, Guy (contributor) - 2008
The Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) is a research and demonstration project that offered a generous time-limited income supplement to randomly selected welfare applicants under two conditions. The first, the eligibility condition, required that they remain on welfare for at least twelve months....
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The effects of pension rights and retirement age on training participation : evidence from a natural experiment
Montizaan, Raymond; Cörvers, Frank; Grip, Andries de - 2009
This paper uses a natural experiment approach to identify the effects of an exogenous change in future pension benefits on workers' training participation. We use unique matched survey and administrative data for male employees in the Dutch public sector who were born in 1949 or 1950. Only the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003901814
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Information, financial aid and training participation : evidence from a randomized field experiment
Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2016
To increase employee participation in training activities, the German government introduced a large-scale training voucher program in 2008 that reduces training fees by half. Based on a randomized field experiment, this paper analyzes whether providing information about the existence and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458893
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Active labor market policies
Crépon, Bruno; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2016
Active labor market policies are massively used with the objective being to improve labor market outcomes of individuals out of work. Many observational evaluation studies have been published. In this review, we critically assess policy effectiveness. We emphasize insights from recent randomized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580552
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Training the unemployed in France : how does it affect unemployment duration and recurrence?
Ferracci, Marc - 2007
policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We perform the first evaluation of training effects for the unemployed adults … in France, exploiting a unique longitudinal dataset from the unemployment insurance system. Using the so-called timing … unemployment, but has a significant and positive effect on the duration of the subsequent employment spell. Accounting for training …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646710
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Active labor market policy effects in a dynamic setting
Crépon, Bruno; Jolivet, Grégory; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2008
of training for unemployed workers in France, using a rich register data set. Training has little impact on unemployment … probability is high. -- Treatment ; program participation ; unemployment duration ; training ; propensity score ; matching …
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Get training or wait? : Long-run employment effects of training programs for the unemployed in West Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor);  … - 2006
inflows into unemployment for the years 1986/87 and 1993/94 and apply local linear matching based on the estimated propensity … score to estimate the effects of training programs starting during 1 to 2, 3 to 4, and 5 to 8 quarters of unemployment. The …
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Are training programs more effective when unemployment is high?
Lechner, Michael (contributor); Wunsch, Conny (contributor) - 2006
clear positive relation between the effectiveness of the programs and the unemployment rate over time. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003477394
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Treatment evaluation in the case of interactions within markets
Ferracci, Marc; Jolivet, Grégory; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2010
in France. We use a rich administrative register of unemployment and training spells as well as the information on local … labor demand that is used by unemployment agencies to allocate training programs. The results show that the average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003934299
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Macroeconomic effects of short-term training measures on the matching process in Western Germany
Hujer, Reinhard (contributor);  … - 2006
This paper investigates the macroeconomic effects of short term training measures on the matching processes in West Germany. The empirical analysis is based on regional data for local employment office districts for the period from January 2003 to December 2004. The empirical model relies on a...
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