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Active labor market policies
Crépon, Bruno; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2016
Active labor market policies are massively used with the objective being to improve labor market outcomes of individuals out of work. Many observational evaluation studies have been published. In this review, we critically assess policy effectiveness. We emphasize insights from recent randomized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580552
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Active labor market policies
Crépon, Bruno; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2016
Active labor market policies are massively used with the objective being to improve labor market outcomes of individuals out of work. Many observational evaluation studies have been published. In this review, we critically assess policy effectiveness. We emphasize insights from recent randomized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011598126
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A cross-country comparison of labor market frictions
Ridder, Geert; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2002
In this paper we define and estimate measures of labor market frictions using data on job durations. We compare different estimation methods and different types of data. We propose and apply an unconditional inference method that can be applied to aggregate duration data. It does not require...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011574924
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Does online search improve the match quality of new hires?
Gürtzgen, Nicole; Lochner, Benjamin; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2021
deutschen Arbeitsmarkt kombiniert. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass eine Ausweitung der Breitbandinternet-Verfügbarkeit keinen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012432263
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The effect of active labor market programs on not-yet treated unemployed individuals
Berg, Gerard J. van den (contributor);  … - 2008
propensity score matching. We apply the method to the German ALMP system, using a novel data set including self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777875
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The effect of active labor market programs on not-yet treated unemployed individuals
Berg, Gerard J. van den (contributor);  … - 2008
propensity score matching. We apply the method to the German ALMP system, using a novel data set including self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779747
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The effect of vocational employment training on the individual transition rate from unemployment to work
Richardson, Katarina; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2002
Amongst the active labor market policy programs for the unemployed in Sweden, the vocational employment training program is the most ambitious and expensive. We analyze its effect on the individual transition rate from unemployment to employment using a unique set of administrative data and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572134
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The matching method for treatment evaluation with selective participation and ineligibles
Costa Dias, Monica (contributor);  … - 2008
The matching method for treatment evaluation does not balance selective unobserved differences between treated and non …, provide a natural application. In an empirical analysis, we first examine the performance of matching versus regression …, where compliance is imperfect among the young. Adjusting the matching estimator for selectivity changes the results towards …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003709718
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Combining micro and macro unemployment duration data
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der - 1998
We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the total inflow into unemployment. We estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011299970
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Combining micro and macro unemployment duration data
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2000
We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the total inflow into unemployment. We estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001460507