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labor market support programs and the broad federal response. That response came through modifications to existing programs …This paper examines labor market conditions and public employment policies in the United States during what some are … calling the Great Recession. We document the dramatic labor market changes that rapidly unfolded when the rate of gross …
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evaluation design with type of school (charter or traditional) attended in a base year as the rows and type of school in the …
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This paper argues that more rigorous evaluations of local economic development policies are feasible. Programs that aid selected small firms can be rigorously evaluated using an experimental approach, without excluding firms from assistance, by randomly assigning some firms to receive more...
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The study estimates the employment effect of vocational training programs for the unemployed in urban Russia. The results of propensity score matching indicate that training programs had a non-negative overall effect on the program participants relative to non-participants.
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The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the results, methodology, and processes used in a series of net labor market … used a technique referred to as quasi- experimental evaluation. The program interventions were the federal- and state …
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This paper presents findings from a net impact evaluation of the Ohio JOBS Student Retention Program. The JOBS program … ongoing policy debate. The focus of this paper is an evaluation using state administrative data. The empirical work relied on …
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