We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assistcaseworkers in Swiss employment …

outcomes over 8 years. We find that, generally, all training programmes under investigation increase long-term employment …

employment and earnings in England. Clear associations between labour market outcomes and sports participation are established … different types of sports participation to initial access to employment and then higher income opportunities with ageing …

wide variety of programmes. We evaluate the effects of these programmes on the individual employment probability of … potential participants. Our econometric analysis uses unusually informative data originating from administrative unemployment … large negative effects for traditional employment programmes operated in sheltered labour markets. For training courses the …

In many countries, caseworkers in a public employment office have the dual roles of counselling and monitoring … caseworkers' cooperativeness on the employment probabilities of their clients. Modified statistical matching methods reveal that … caseworkers who place less emphasis on a cooperative and harmonic relationship with their clients increase their employment …

dataset, which links Swiss unemployed to their caseworkers, we find positive employment effects of about 4 percentage points … caseworker and unemployed, does not lead to detectable effects on employment. These results, obtained by statistical matching …

clear positive relation between the effectiveness of the programs and the unemployment rate over time. …

health effects of transitions from welfare to employment and of assignments to welfare-to-work programmes. Applying semi …-parametric propensity score matching estimators we find that employment substantially increases (mental) health. The positive effects are …

variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual … data from the German Socio-Economic Panel study (GSOEP) 1984 to 2006. Econometric problems due to individuals choosing … methods with a specific way to use the panel dimension of the data. The paper shows that sports activities have sizeable …