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"Phantom of the Opera" or "Sex and the City"? Historical Amenities as Sources of Exogenous Variation
Bauer, Thomas K.; Breidenbach, Philipp; Schmidt, … - 2014
Using the location of baroque opera houses as a natural experiment, Falck et al. (2011) claim to document a positive causal effect of the supply of cultural goods on today's regional distribution of talents. This paper raises serious doubts on the validity of the identification strategy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398265
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"Phantom of the Opera" or "Sex and the City"? Historical Amenities as Sources of Exogenous Variation
Bauer, Thomas K.; Breidenbach, Philipp; Schmidt, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Using the location of baroque opera houses as a natural experiment, Falck et al. (2011) claim to document a positive causal effect of the supply of cultural goods on today's regional distribution of talents. This paper raises serious doubts on the validity of the identification strategy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886149
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Discretionary Measures of Active Labor Market Policy: The German Employment Promotion Reform in Perspective
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000
for the first time in the history of German employment promotion that evaluation should be an integral part of the … – evaluation itself has mistakenly been understood by the legislator as a pure accounting exercise. We discuss this problem from … the perspective of the recent evaluation literature in economics and statistics, thus providing a frame of reference for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262390
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Active Labor Market Policy in Germany - Is There a Successful Policy Strategy?
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Schneider, Hilmar - 2002
Each year Germany and many other developed economies spend tens of billions of Euros on active measures of employment promotion with the explicit aim of contributing to the reduction of unemployment. Yet, high unemployment has universally been a persistent problem throughout the last two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262675
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Active Labor Market Policy in Germany - Is There a Successful Policy Strategy?
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Schneider, Hilmar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Each year Germany and many other developed economies spend tens of billions of Euros on active measures of employment promotion with the explicit aim of contributing to the reduction of unemployment. Yet, high unemployment has universally been a persistent problem throughout the last two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822395
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Discretionary Measures of Active Labor Market Policy: The German Employment Promotion Reform in Perspective
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
for the first time in the history of German employment promotion that evaluation should be an integral part of the … - evaluation itself has mistakenly been understood by the legislator as a pure accounting exercise. We discuss this problem from … the perspective of the recent evaluation literature in economics and statistics, thus providing a frame of reference for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763902