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New Evidence on the Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany - a Matching Approach with Threefold Heterogeneity
Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2021
This paper evaluates the effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany. Since previous empirical studies of these measures have been based on relatively small datasets and focussed on East Germany, this is the first study which allows to draw policy-relevant...
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Direct and Indirect Effects of Training Vouchers for the Unemployed
Huber, Martin - 2015
This paper evaluates the effect of a voucher award system for assignment into vocational training on the employment outcomes of unemployed voucher recipients in Germany, along with the causal mechanisms through which it operates. It assesses the direct effect of voucher assignment net of actual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016357
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Get Training or Wait? Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed in West Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; Voelter, Robert - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317595
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Active Labor Market Policy Effects in a Dynamic Setting
Crepon, Bruno; Ferracci, Marc; Jolivet, Grégory; van … - 2021
of training for unemployed workers in France, using a rich register data set. Training has little impact on unemployment …
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Inference on Causal Effects in a Generalized Regression Kink Design
Card, David - 2015
institutional settings where a policy variable (such as weekly unemployment benefits) is determined by an observed but potentially … of unemployment insurance benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, where the benefit schedule has kinks at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029646
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Estimating the Effect of a Retraining Program on the Re-Employment Rate of Displaced Workers
Cavaco, Sandra - 2009
In this paper we estimate by matching techniques the effects of a French retraining program on the reemployment rate of displaced workers. This program, called "Conventions de conversion", was intended to improve reemployment prospects of displaced workers by proposing them retraining and job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158616
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Estimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects on Hazard Rates
Gaure, Simen - 2010
Consider a setting where a treatment that starts at some point during a spell (e.g. in unemployment) may impact on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147121
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Semiparametric Estimation and Inference Using Doubly Robust Moment Conditions
Rothe, Christoph - 2013
We study semiparametric two-step estimators which have the same structure as parametric doubly robust estimators in their second step, but retain a fully nonparametric specification in the first step. Such estimators exist in many economic applications, including a wide range of missing data and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076810
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New Insights on Unemployment Duration and Post Unemployment Earnings in Germany : Censored Box-Cox Quantile Regression at Work
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2021
periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post-unemployment earnings in West Germany. For … the unemployment duration, we estimate censored Box-Cox quantile regression, which is robust with respect to the … the length of benefit entitlement is only of minor importance for the duration of search unemployment and for post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317225
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Macroeconomic Effects of Short-Term Training Measures on the Matching Process in Western Germany
Hujer, Reinhard - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778028