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Deregulating Job Placement in Europe: A Microeconometric Evaluation of an Innovative Voucher Scheme in Germany
Winterhager, Henrik; Heinze, Anja; Spermann, Alexander - 2006
apply propensity score matching as a method to solve the fundamental evaluation problem and to estimate the effect of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297519
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Three Approaches to the Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policy in East Germany Using Regional Data
Hagen, Tobias - 2003
different econometric techniques for panel data (GMM and two-stage least squares) are applied. An augmented matching function … indicates a negative effect of JCS on regional matching efficiency (inflows into regular employment) and no significant effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297275
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How Weather-Proof is the Construction Sector? Empirical Evidence from Germany
Wilke, Ralf A.; Arntz, Melanie - 2008
With the purpose to reduce winter unemployment and to promote all-season employment in the constructions sector …. We analyse the effect of these reforms on individual unemployment risks using large individual administrative data merged … unemployment and render it less weather-dependent. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298686
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Choosing from the Reform Menu Card: Individual Determinants of Labour Market Policy Preferences
Hennighausen, Tanja; Bischoff, Ivo; Heinemann, Friedrich - 2009
This contribution empirically explores the drivers of labour market reform acceptance for the individual level in Germany. For that purpose we make use of the representative German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). This survey offers data to which extent individuals support benefit cuts, longer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298722
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Selbständigkeit in Europa 1991 - 2003: Empirische Evidenz mit Länderdaten
Göggel, Kathrin; Gräb, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2006
In dieser Studie werden ausgewählte makroökonomische Determinanten der Anzahl der Selbständigen in fünfzehn Ländern Europas untersucht. Datenbasis sind die Arbeitskräfteerhebungen der Europäischen Union für die Jahre 1991 ? 2003. Ausgangspunkt der Studie ist der Rückgang der Anzahl der...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297523
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Selbständigkeit in Europa 1991 - 2003: Empirische Evidenz mit Länderdaten
Göggel, Kathrin; Gräb, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
In dieser Studie werden ausgewählte makroökonomische Determinanten der Anzahl der Selbständigen in fünfzehn Ländern Europas untersucht. Datenbasis sind die Arbeitskräfteerhebungen der Europäischen Union für die Jahre 1991 ? 2003. Ausgangspunkt der Studie ist der Rückgang der Anzahl der...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097644
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Private Job Placement Services: A Microeconometric Evaluation for Germany
Winterhager, Henrik - 2006
contracted out so far in Germany. In this paper a microeconometric evaluation of this system using propensity score matching is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297534
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Estimating the effects of public training on Polish unemployment by way of the augmented matching function approach
Puhani, Patrick A. - 1999
. The effects of training programmes on the outflows from unemployment and the effects of all ALMP programmes on the … gives some tentative support to the view that public training programmes can be used to reduce unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297636
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Public works for Poland? Active labour market policies during transition
Puhani, Patrick A.; Steiner, Viktor - 1996
Following the predominance of macroeconomic stabilisation policies and passive income support schemes in the first phase of transition, active labour market policies (ALMPs) have now come to play a more important role in transition economies. This paper looks at the Polish experience and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299659
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A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003
Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297281