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The Knowledge Lift : The Swedish Adult Education Program That Aimed to Eliminate Low Worker Skill Levels

Albrecht, James; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Vroman, Susan - 2005

The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift is unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of all low-skilled workers towards the medium level. This paper evaluates the effects of program participation on individual labor market outcomes, notably...

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The matching method for treatment evaluation with selective participation and ineligibles

Costa Dias, Monica; Ichimura, Hidehiko; van den Berg, … - 2008

The matching method for treatment evaluation does not balance selective unobserved differences between treated and non …, provide a natural application. In an empirical analysis, we first examine the performance of matching versus regression …, where compliance is imperfect among the young. Adjusting the matching estimator for selectivity changes the results towards …

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Active labor market policy effects in a dynamic setting

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

occur at any point in time. By relating the standard matching approach to the timing-of-events approach, it demonstrates … duration. The contamination of the standard matching estimator due to later entries into treatment is large if the treatment …

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Stepping Stones for the Unemployed : The Effect of Temporary Jobs on the Duration until Regular Work

Zijl, Marloes; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Heyma, Arjan - 2004

Individual labour market transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition from temporary into regular work. We investigate whether temporary work increases the transition rate to regular work. In that case, temporary work may enhance labour market efficiency....

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Combining Micro and Macro Unemployment Duration Data

van den Berg, Gerard J.; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2000

We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the total inflow into unemployment. We estimate the...

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Nonparametric Estimation of a Dependent Competing Risks Model for Unemployment Durations

van den Berg, Gerard J.; van Lomwel, A. Gijsbert C.; … - 2003

In this paper we simultaneously analyze transitions from unemployment to employment and to nonparticipation. We estimate a dependent competing risks model with nonparametric specifications of the destination-specific duration dependence and unobserved heterogeneity terms. We use a unique...

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Survey Non-Response and Unemployment Duration

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lindeboom, Maarten; Dolton, … - 2004

. We study this using a unique dataset that combines survey information of individual workers with administrative records … of the same workers. The latter provide information on unemployment durations and personal characteristics of all survey …

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