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Kids or courses? Gender differences in the effects of active labor market policies

Lechner, Michael; Wiehler, Stephan - 2007

may explain why other similar studies found such programs to be more effective for women than for men. In particular for … younger women a key effect of the programs is to reduce or postpone pregnancies and to increase the attachment to the labor …

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Approval of Equal Rights and Gender Differences in Well-Being

Lalive, Rafael; Stutzer, Alois - 2004

Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms on the appropriate pay for … women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens? approval of an equal rights amendment to the Swiss … constitution as a proxy for the norm that ?women and men shall have the right to equal pay for work of equal value?. We find that …

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Children, kitchen, church: does ethnicity matter?

Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007

Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those attitudes using time diaries on childcare, food management and religious activities provided by the British Time Use Survey. Given the low labor force participation of females from...

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Do Firms Benefit from Active Labour Market Policies?

Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny; Scioch, Patrycja - 2013

This paper investigates the link between variation in the supply of workers who participate in specific types of active labour market policies (ALMPs) and firm performance using a new exceptionally informative German employer-employee data base. For identification we exploit that German local...

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Macroeconomic Impacts of ALMP on the Matching Process in West Germany

Hujer, Reinhard; Zeiss, Christopher - 2003

This paper investigates the macroeconomic effects of job creation schemes and vocational training on the matching processes in West Germany. The empirical analysis is based on regional data for local employment office districts for the period from 1999 to 2003. The empirical model relies on a...

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The effect of disability on labour market outcomes in Germany : evidence from matching

Lechner, Michael; Vazquez-Alvarez, Rosalia - 2003

If labour market policies aimed at people with disabilities are effective, we should observe no significant difference in labour market outcomes between disable and non-disable individuals. This paper examines the impact of disability status on labour market outcomes using matching methods...

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Sequential Matching Estimation of Dynamic Causal Models

Lechner, Michael - 2004

This paper proposes sequential matching and inverse selection probability weighting to estimate dynamic causal effects. The sequential matching estimators extend simple, matching estimators based on propensity scores for static causal analysis that have been frequently applied in the evaluation...

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Regional Treatment Intensity as an Instrument for the Evaluation of Labour Market Policies

Frölich, Markus; Lechner, Michael - 2004

The effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) on individual employment chances and earnings are evaluated by nonparametric instrumental variables based on Swiss administrative data with detailed regional information. Using an exogenous variation in the participation probabilities across...

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The Success of Job Applications : A New Approach to Program Evaluation

Falk, Armin; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2004

In this paper, we suggest a novel approach to program evaluation that allows identification of the causal effect of a training program on the likelihood of being invited to a job interview under weak assumptions. The idea is to measure the program-effects by pre- and posttreatment data that are...

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The Effects of Vocational Training Programmes on the Duration of Unemployment in Eastern Germany

Hujer, Reinhard; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Zeiss, Christopher - 2004

This paper focuses on the effects of vocational training programmes on the duration of unemployment in Eastern Germany. We use information from administrative data of the Federal Employment Office. To allow for observable and possible unobservable influences we apply a multivariate mixed...

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