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Innovativity : A Comparison Across Seven European Countries
Mohnen, Pierre; Mairesse, Jacques; Dagenais, Marcel - 2021
: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Italy for the year 1992. Based on the estimation of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218733
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The "Austerity Myth" : Gain Without Pain?
Perotti, Roberto - 2011
detailed case studies, two - Denmark and Ireland - undertaken under fixed exchange rates (the most relevant case for many … Eurozone countries today) and two - Finland and Sweden - after floating the currency.All four episodes were associated with an … expansion; but only in Denmark the driver of growth was internal demand. However, after three years a long slump set in as the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118837
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International Trade and Job Polarization : Evidence at the Worker-Level
Keller, Wolfgang - 2016
firms in Denmark between 1999 and 2009, we show that import competition has caused worker-level adjustments that lead to job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989722
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Is Occupational Licensing a Barrier to Interstate Migration?
Johnson, Janna - 2017
Occupational licensure, one of the most significant labor market regulations in the United States, may restrict the interstate movement of workers. We analyze the interstate migration of 22 licensed occupations. Using an empirical strategy that controls for unobservable characteristics that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941467
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Employment and Training Programs
Barnow, Burton S. - 2015
This chapter considers means-tested employment and training programs in the United States. We focus in particular on large, means-tested federal programs, including the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), its successor the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), that program's recent replacement, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013184
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Dynamic Treatment Effects of Job Training
Rodríguez, Jorge; Saltiel, Fernando; Urzúa, Sergio - 2021
This paper estimates the dynamic returns to job training. We posit a dynamic-discrete choice model of sequential training participation, where choices and earnings depend on observed and unobserved characteristics.We define treatment effects, including policy relevant parameters, and link them...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224969
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New Evidence on Workplace Education
Krueger, Alan B.; Rouse, Cecilia E. - 2021
This paper presents an analysis of the impact of a workplace education program that was administered by a community college at two companies. One of the companies we study is in the manufacturing sector and the other is in the service sector. The analysis relies on longitudinal administrative...
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Predicting the Efficacy of Future Training Programs Using Past Experiences
Hotz, V. Joseph; Imbens, Guido W.; Mortimer, Julie H. - 2021
We investigate the problem of predicting the average effect of a new training program using experiences with previous implementations. There are two principal complications in doing so. First, the population in which the new program will be implemented may differ from the population in which the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245339
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Making the Most Out of Social Experiments : Reducing the Intrinsic Uncertainty in Evidence from Randomized Trials with an Application to the Jtpa Exp
Heckman, James J.; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2022
This paper demonstrates that even under ideal conditions, social experiments in general only uniquely determine the mean impacts of programs but not the median or the distribution of program impacts. The conventional common parameter evaluation model widely used in econometrics is one case where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313271
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The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program : Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program
Heckman, James J.; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2021
This paper decomposes the participation process of a prototypical program into eligibility, awareness, application, acceptance and enrollment. With this decomposition, we determine the sources of unequal participation for different groups, and demonstrate that variables often have very different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013230575