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. 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. …We analyse Polish active labour market policy (ALMP) training programmes from a macroeconomic (regional) point of view …
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In 2003, Germany moved from a system in which participants in training programs for the unemployed are assigned by …
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transition process. We apply a dynamic multiple treatment approach using matching based on inflows into unemployment. We find …Public sector sponsored training was implemented at a large scale during the transition process in East Germany. Based …
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We estimate the employment effects of training, intervention works (subsidised employment), and public works programmes … that training improves the employment opportunities of both men and women, whereas intervention and public works do not …: intervention works prolong unemployment for both genders as do public works for men. The number of observations on women in public …
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This study re-estimates the employment effects of training programs for the unemployed using exogenous variation in … from training programs. However, the ATT estimates suggest modest positive effects in the long run. Longer programs are …
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combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find …
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effects of the most important type of public sector sponsored training in Germany, namely the provision of specific … professional skills and techniques (SPST). Using the inflows into unemployment for the year 1993, the empirical analysis uses local … linear matching based on the estimated propensity score to estimate the average treatment effect on the treated of SPST …
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. Eligibility to the programme is restricted to school leavers who have actively searched for apprenticeship training to start … probability to finish vocational in-firm training successfully. …
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This paper analyses the growth effects of EU structural funds using a new panel dataset of 124 NUTS-1 / NUTS-2 regions over the time period 1995-2005. We extend the current literature with regard to at least three aspects: First of all, we extend the time period of investigation, using...
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The current empirical literature on the impact of EU Cohesion Policy on the economic growth rates of the European regions mainly relies on functional form assumptions. However, it is ex ante not clear which functional form is appropriate with regard to the relationship between structural funds...
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