Switzerland. To establish exogeneity of cantonal regulations with respect to employment opportunities and preferences of the … methods, we find a positive impact of after-school care provision on mothers ́full-time employment, but a negative impact on … fathers ́full-time employment. Thus, the supply of after-school care fosters a convergence of parental working hours. …

Subsidised employment is an important tool of active labour market policies to improve the chances of the unemployed to … find permanent employment. Using informative individual administrative data we investigate the effects of two different … schemes of subsidised temporary employment implemented in Switzerland. One scheme operates as a non-profit employment …

. This work investigates if machine learning algorithms for estimating the propensity score lead to more credible estimation … application reveals a positive effect of the training programme on days in employment for long-term unemployed. While the choice … and conventional estimation becomes more similar in larger samples and higher treatment shares. …