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Cream-skimmer or underdog? Labor type selectivity, pre-program wage, and rural labor training program outcome
Chen, Yiu por - 2009
The mismatch between laborer's abilities and the target subject of the training program is one of the most primary concerns for a labor training program. The ability of different workers may significantly affect the outcomes of a labor training program. The objective of this paper is to look at...
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Does Federally-Funded Job Training Work? Nonexperimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and Firms
Andersson, Fredrik; Holzer, Harry J.; Lane, Julia; … - 2013
to the data available in state Unemployment Insurance (UI) earnings records. We find that value to be zero. …
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Employing the Unemployed of Marienthal: Evaluation of a Guaranteed Job Program
Kasy, Maximilian; Lehner, Lukas - 2023
. At the municipality level, we find a large reduction of long-term unemployment, and no negative employment spillovers …
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The pitfalls of work requirements in welfare-to-work policies: Experimental evidence on human capital accumulation in the self-sufficiency project
Riddell, Chris; Riddell, W. Craig - 2012
This paper investigates whether policies that encourage recipients to exit welfare for full-time employment influence participation in educational activity. The Self-Sufficiency Project ('SSP') was a demonstration project where long-term welfare recipients randomly assigned to the treatment...
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The great recession of 2008 - 2009: Causes, consequences and policy responses
Verick, Sher; Islam, Iyanatul - 2010
collapse and rising unemployment, this paper stresses that the impact of the crisis is rather diverse, reflecting differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269861
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Public Employment and Redistributive Politics: Evidence from Russia?s Regions
Gimpelson, Vladimir; Treisman, Daniel; Monusova, Galina - 2000
public employment in total employment has been greatest where unemployment was highest and growing the fastest, in ethnically … public employment for several purposes: as a kind of economic insurance to cushion the population against unemployment; as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262369
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The Iceberg Decomposition: A Parsimonious Way to Map the Health of Labour Markets
Baert, Stijn - 2020
historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much … larger. Therefore, we point to the clear limitations of the unemployment rate as the (single) key macro-economic indicator of … the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the …
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The Great Recession of 2008-2009: Causes, Consequences and Policy Responses
Verick, Sher; Islam, Iyanatul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
collapse and rising unemployment, this paper stresses that the impact of the crisis is rather diverse, reflecting differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506085
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Can Value-Added Measures of Teacher Performance Be Trusted?
Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; Wooldridge, Jeffrey M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We investigate whether commonly used value-added estimation strategies can produce accurate estimates of teacher effects. We estimate teacher effects in simulated student achievement data sets that mimic plausible types of student grouping and teacher assignment scenarios. No one method...
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How do Principals Assign Students to Teachers? Finding Evidence in Administrative Data and the Implications for Value-added
Dieterle, Steven G.; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of these measures has been controversial among researchers and widely contested by teachers' unions. A...
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