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This paper evaluates the effect of a voucher award system for assignment into vocational training on the employment outcomes of unemployed voucher recipients in Germany, along with the causal mechanisms through which it operates. It assesses the direct effect of voucher assignment net of actual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288531
This paper evaluates the effect of a voucher award system for assignment into vocational training on the employment outcomes of unemployed voucher recipients in Germany, along with the causal mechanisms through which it operates. It assesses the direct effect of voucher assignment net of actual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016357
Microeconometric Evaluation of the Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland In the second part of the 1990?s Switzerland conducted an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing a wide variety of programmes. We evaluate the effects of these programmes on the individual employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321284
In the second part of the 1990's Switzerland conducted an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing a wide variety of programmes. We evaluate the effects of these programmes on the individual employment probability of potential participants. Our econometric analysis uses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014153504
In the second part of the 1990's Switzerland conducted an ambitious active labor market policy (ALMP) encompassing a wide variety of programs. We evaluate the effects of these programs on the individual employment probability of potential participants. Our econometric analysis uses unusually...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014149949
In the second part of the 1990's Switzerland conducted an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing a wide variety of programmes. We evaluate the effects of these programmes on the individual employment probability of potential participants. Our econometric analysis uses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333282
In the second part of the 1990?s Switzerland conducted an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing a wide variety of programmes. We evaluate the effects of these programmes on the individual employment probability of potential participants. Our econometric analysis uses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262365
disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment, and the political difficulties in implementing more … extensive reform programs. We argue that the heart of these problems may be the failure of many European governments to … implement broad-based reform strategies. Our analysis suggests that major unemployment policies are characterised by economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001370887
disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment, and the political difficulties in implementing more … extensive reform programs. We argue that the heart of these problems may be the failure of many European governments to … implement broad-based reform strategies. Our analysis suggests that major unemployment policies are characterised by economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295418
This paper investigates the link between variation in the supply of workers who participate in spe­cific types of active labour market policies (ALMPs) and firm performance using a new exception­ally informative German employer-employee data base. For identification we ex­ploit that German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390693