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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
promotion. This paper contributes to the received literature by investigating whether a specific strategy of active labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262675
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Where to put the kids? Effects of type of non-parental child care on pre-teen skills and risky behavior
Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Simonsen, Marianne - 2011
This paper investigates pre-teenage effects of the choice of type of non-parental child care at age three (preschool relative to more informal family day care). We exploit a Danish panel data child survey merged with administrative records along with a pseudo-experiment that generates variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278481
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Coaching, Counseling, Case-Working: Do They Help the Older Unemployed Out of Benefit Receipt and Back into the Labor Market?
Boockmann, Bernhard; Brändle, Tobias - 2015
this paper we present key results from the evaluation of "Perspektive 50plus", a large-scale active labor market program …Job search assistance and intensified counseling have been found to be effective for labor market integration by a … use a combination of different evaluation estimators to check the sensitivity of the results to selection, substitution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500313
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The effects of pharmacological treatment of ADHD on children's health
Dalsgaard, Søren; Skyt Nielsen, Helena; Simonsen, Marianne - 2012
We are the first to investigate longer-term effects of pharmacological treatment of ADHD on children's health. We rely on a difference-in-differences strategy while exploiting Danish register-based panel data for children born in 1990-1999. We study effects of treatment initiated between ages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287616
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Where to Put the Kids? Effects of Type of Non-parental Child Care on Pre-teen Skills and Risky Behavior
Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Simonsen, Marianne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper investigates pre-teenage effects of the choice of type of non-parental child care at age three (preschool relative to more informal family day care). We exploit a Danish panel data child survey merged with administrative records along with a pseudo-experiment that generates variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216763
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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
promotion. This paper contributes to the received literature by investigating whether a specific strategy of active labor market …
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
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The Effects of Pharmacological Treatment of ADHD on Children's Health
Dalsgaard, Søren; Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Simonsen, Marianne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We are the first to investigate longer-term effects of pharmacological treatment of ADHD on children's health. We rely on a difference-in-differences strategy while exploiting Danish register-based panel data for children born in 1990-1999. We study effects of treatment initiated between ages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775590
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Coaching, Counseling, Case-Working: Do They Help the Older Unemployed Out of Benefit Receipt and Back into the Labor Market?
Boockmann, Bernhard; Brändle, Tobias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
this paper we present key results from the evaluation of "Perspektive 50plus", a large-scale active labor market program …Job search assistance and intensified counseling have been found to be effective for labor market integration by a … use a combination of different evaluation estimators to check the sensitivity of the results to selection, substitution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163468