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 …

performance and post-dissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find … opportunities in the labor market. However, the financial benefits for each of the spouses, and especially the female, are larger in …

performance and post-dissolution private and financial outcomes with a selected set of comparable firms and couples. We find … opportunities in the labor market. However, the financial benefits for each of the spouses, and especially the female, are larger in …

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences … show furthermore that entrepreneurs have higher returns to education than employees (in terms of the comparable performance …

This reference paper describes the sampling and contents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey and outlines its vast …

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 …

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 …

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

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate … testable predictions regarding heterogeneous treatment effects from such programs. Using a large randomized evaluation in the … labor market discrimination. We do find a short-run effect on business ownership for those unemployed at baseline, but this …