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Active Labor Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe: A Survey
Bergemann, Annette; Berg, Gerard J. van den - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703577
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Side effects of labor market policies
Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2020
Labor market policy tools such as training and sanctions are commonly used to help bring workers back to work. By … outcomes before and after exposure to training and sanctions. We find that training improves cardiovascular and mental health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012313891
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Side effects of labor market policies
Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2020
Labor market policy tools such as training and sanctions are commonly used to help bring workers back to work. By … outcomes before and after exposure to training and sanctions. We find that training improves cardiovascular and mental health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012318406
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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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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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The IZA Evaluation Dataset:Towards Evidence-Based Labor Policy-Making
Caliendo, Marco; Falk, Armin; Kaiser, Lutz C.; … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
The evaluation of labor market policies has become an important issue in many Europeancountries. In recent years, a number of them have opened their administrative databases forevaluation studies. The advantages of administrative data are straightforward: they areaccurate, contain a large number...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360557
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Displaced workers in the Netherlands
Abbring, Jaap H.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Gautier, … - Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en … - 1998
This paper studies worker displacement in the Netherlands. We discuss the relevant institutions, and we analyze the incidence and consequences of displacement. In the next stage of the project this paper will be merged with the corresponding paper on the US.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010782306
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An Economic Analysis of Exclusion Restrictions for Instrumental Variable Estimation
Berg, Gerard J. van den - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Instrumental variable estimation requires untestable exclusion restrictions. With policy effects on individual outcomes, there is typically a time interval between the moment the agent realizes that he may be exposed to the policy and the actual exposure or the announcement of the actual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763520
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Displaced workers in the Netherlands
Abbring, Jaap H.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Gautier, … - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 1998
This paper studies worker displacement in the Netherlands. We discuss the relevant institutions, and we analyze the incidence and consequences of displacement. In the next stage of the project this paper will be merged with the corresponding paper on the US.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150441
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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 … training and exit to work. The approach involves the estimation of duration models, and it allows us to quantify the individual … effect of training in the presence of selectivity on unobservables. The data contain the full population of unemployed in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014113485