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Product market regulation and macroeconomic performance: a review of cross country evidence

Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2005

country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country's macroeconomic performance. After a … of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …

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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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Estimating the Returns to Community College Schooling for Displaced Workers

Jacobson, Louis; LaLonde, Robert; Sullivan, Daniel G. - 2004

Studies show that high-tenure displaced workers typically incur substantial long-term earnings losses. As these losses have become increasingly apparent, policy makers have significantly expanded resources for retraining, much of which takes place in regular community college classes. To analyze...

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Evaluating an Innovative Redundancy-Retraining Project: The Austrian Steel Foundation

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2001

have to support the Foundation by depositing their redundancy payments. In evaluating post-foundation economic performance …

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Programme Evaluation with Multiple Treatments

Frölich, Markus - 2002

This paper reviews the main identification and estimation strategies for microeconomic policy evaluation. Particular …, active labour market policies may consist of different training programmes, employment programmes and wage subsidies …

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The microeconometric estimation of treatment effects: an overview

Caliendo, Marco; Hujer, Reinhard - 2005

The need to evaluate the performance of active labour market policies is not questioned any longer. Even though OECD … focus on microeconometric evaluation which has to solve the fundamental evaluation problem and overcome the possible … occurrence of selection bias. When using non-experimental data, different evaluation approaches can be thought of. The aim of …

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Estimating the effect of a retraining program on the re-employment rate of displaced workers

Cavaco, Sandra; Fougère, Denis; Pouget, Julien - 2009

In this paper we estimate by matching techniques the effects of a French retraining program on the reemployment rate of displaced workers. This program, called Conventions de conversion, was intended to improve reemployment prospects of displaced workers by proposing them retraining and job...

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Estimating the Effect of a Retraining Program for Displaced Workers on Their Transition to Permanent Jobs

Cavaco, Sandra; Fougère, Denis; Pouget, Julien - 2005

In this paper we estimate the short-term effects of a French retraining program that was intended to improve reemployment prospects of displaced workers. Our empirical analysis uses non-experimental data collected by the French Ministry of Labour. Transitions from unemployment to permanent vs....

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New evidence on the effects of job creation schemes in Germany : a matching approach with threefold heterogeneity

Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2003

creation schemes have a significantly lower success probability on the labour market in comparison to matched non-participants. …

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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...

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