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Learning from environmental actors about environmental developments: the case of international organizations

Böhling, Kathrin - 2002

This article makes a case for viewing international governmental organizations (IOs) as corporate agents capable of learning. In doing so, it attempts to go beyond prevailing conceptions of IOs as means or settings for multilateral negotiation and bargaining. The proposed theoretical framework...

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Benchmarking European labour market performance with efficiency frontier techniques

Storrie, Donald; Bjurek, Hans - 2000

The issue addressed in this paper is how to obtain a composite measure of several indicators using benchmarking principles. While the exposition is only in two dimensions, and thus can be presented graphically, this is sufficient to capture the essence of the methodology and provide the basis...

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Temporary work agencies and equilibrium unemployment

Neugart, Michael; Storrie, Donald - 2002

During the 1990s, temporary agency work has increased rapidly in most OECD countries. We augment the equilibrium unemployment model developed by Pissarides and Mortensen with temporary work agencies. Our model implies that technological improvements for placements and de-regulation of the sector...

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Endogenous fluctuations in the demand for education

Neugart, Michael; Tuinstra, Jan - 2001

shocks alone. We develop a human capital investment model in an overlapping generations framework that features endogenous … looking prediction rules. Only if previous generations experience regret about their human capital investment decisions … flows to higher education. - expectations ; human capital investment ; endogenous fluctuations ; intergenerational spill …

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Assessing bias in the estimation of causal effects: Rosenbaum bounds on matching estimators and instrumental variables estimation with imperfect instruments

DiPrete, Thomas A.; Gangl, Markus - 2004

Propensity score matching provides an estimate of the effect of a 'treatment' variable on an outcome variable that is largely free of bias arising from an association between treatment status and observable variables. However, matching methods are not robust against 'hidden bias' arising from...

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Labor market policy evaluation with an agent-based model

Neugart, Michael - 2006

I develop an agent-based computational economics (ACE) model with which I evaluate the aggregate impact of labor market policies. The findings are that governmentfinanced training measures increase the outflow rate from unemployment to employment. Although the overall effect is positive this...

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Forensic evaluation: A strategy for and results of an impact evaluation of a universal labor market program - The Swedish activity guarantee

Delander, Lennart; Månsson, Jonas - 2007

To evaluate the effects of a universal program, i.e. all targeted get access, is associated with the problem that there are no individuals who represent the hypothetical or counterfactual state of being eligible to the program but not participating in it. In this study of a Swedish universal...

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Gender mainstreaming in European policy: Innovation or deception?

Woodward, Alison E. - 2001

Mainstreaming, an approach aimed at making policy more gender sensitive, has been taken globally on board by countries with widely varying policy machineries. This social innovation was launched in the context of Bejing 1995 by a network of women's movement activists, academics and politicians...

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Social justice in the age of identity politics: Redistribution, recognition, participation

Fraser, Nancy - 1998

Today, claims for social justice seem to divide into two types: claims for the redistribution of resources and claims for the recognition of cultural difference. Increasingly, these two kind of claims are polarized against one another. As a result, we are asked to choose between class politics...

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Institutional complementarity and diversity of social systems of innovation and production

Amable, Bruno - 1999

According to the contemporary political economy literature on France, the country appears caught in the worst of all possible worlds: it fails to create the conditions for economic growth and employment by deregulating labour markets as the UK has done, and it lacks the institutional...

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