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The Return to Labor Market Mobility: An Evaluation of Relocation Assistance for the Unemployed
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Mahlstedt, Robert - 2015
active labor market policy offers a subsidy covering moving costs to incentivize unemployed job seekers to search/accept jobs … subsidy on participants' prospective labor market outcomes. We use an instrumental variable approach to take endogenous …
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Youth Unemployment and Active Labor Market Policies in Europe
Caliendo, Marco; Schmidl, Ricarda - 2015
average. The majority of European countries spends significant resources each year on active labor market programs (ALMP) with … integration into the first labor market or further education. Based on a detailed assessment of the particularities of the youth … labor market situation, we discuss the pros and cons of different ALMP types. We then provide a comprehensive survey of the …
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The IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey: A Scientific Use File
Arni, Patrick; Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; … - 2014
This reference paper describes the sampling and contents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey and outlines its vast …
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Active Labor Market Policies
Crépon, Bruno; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584636
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Past, Present and Future Compensation Research: Economist Perspectives
Gibbs, Michael - 2017
At the 2016 Academy of Management Conference, a group of distinguished compensation researchers held a panel discussion on the future of compensation research. Their remarks were compiled into an article published in this issue. Soon after the panel, Charles Fay commissioned a similar discussion...
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Evaluation of the Reggio Approach to Early Education
Biroli, Pietro; Del Boca, Daniela; Heckman, James J.; … - 2017
We evaluate the Reggio Approach using non-experimental data on individuals from the cities of Reggio Emilia, Parma and Padova belonging to one of five age cohorts: ages 50, 40, 30, 18, and 6 as of 2012. The treated were exposed to municipally offered infant-toddler (ages 0 3) and preschool (ages...
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The Causal Effects of the Minimum Wage Introduction in Germany: An Overview
Caliendo, Marco; Schröder, Carsten; Wittbrodt, Linda - 2018
In 2015, Germany introduced a statutory hourly minimum wage that was not only universally binding but also set at a relatively high level. We discuss the short-run effects of this new minimum wage on a wide set of socio-economic outcomes, such as employment and working hours, earnings and wage...
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Assessing the Impact of Off- and On-The-Job Training on Employment Outcomes: A Counterfactual Evaluation of the PIPOL Program
Pastore, Francesco; Pompili, Marco - 2019
This evaluation study aims to assess the impact of PIPOL, an integrated program of active labor policies, on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984634
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Does Evaluating Teachers Make a Difference?
Briole, Simon; Maurin, Eric - 2019
students' performance, especially in math. This effect is seen not only for students taught by teachers the year of their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006008
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Financial Education for the Disadvantaged? A Review
Entorf, Horst; Hou, Jia - 2018
In contrast to the popularity of financial education interventions worldwide, studies on the economic effects of those interventions report mixed results. With a focus on the effect on disadvantaged groups, we review both the theoretical and empirical findings in order to understand why this...
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