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Each year Germany and many other developed economies spend tens of billions of Euros on active measures of employment promotion with the explicit aim of contributing to the reduction of unemployment. Yet, high unemployment has universally been a persistent problem throughout the last two...
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for the first time in the history of German employment promotion that evaluation should be an integral part of the … - evaluation itself has mistakenly been understood by the legislator as a pure accounting exercise. We discuss this problem from … the perspective of the recent evaluation literature in economics and statistics, thus providing a frame of reference for …
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for the first time in the history of German employment promotion that evaluation should be an integral part of the … - evaluation itself has mistakenly been understood by the legislator as a pure accounting exercise. We discuss this problem from … the perspective of the recent evaluation literature in economics and statistics, thus providing a frame of reference for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001509837
Germany, relatively little is known about their actual impact. To the contrary, past evaluation efforts typically failed to … intervention. This paper argues that Germany lags clearly behind the current evaluation practice of other advanced economies, and … evaluation of policy interventions and possible empirical strategies for their solution. The available scientific evidence on the …
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Germany, relatively little is known about their actual impact. To the contrary, past evaluation efforts typically failed to … intervention. This paper argues that Germany lags clearly behind the current evaluation practice of other advanced economies, and … evaluation of policy interventions and possible empirical strategies for their solution. The available scientific evidence on the …
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This paper estimates causal effects of two Polish active labor market policies - Training and Intervention Works - on employment probabilities. Using data from the 18th wave of the Polish Labor Force Survey we discuss three stages of an appropriately designed matching procedure and demonstrate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001624321
This paper estimates causal effects of two Polish active labor market policies - Training and Intervention Works - on employment probabilities. Using data from the 18th wave of the Polish Labor Force Survey we discuss three stages of an appropriately designed matching procedure and demonstrate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403475
Large-scale environmental programs generally commit substantial societal resources, making the evaluation of their … and statistics literature on program evaluation could be utilized to advance considerably in this context. In particular …, the construction of a credible counterfactual situation is at the heart of the formal statistical evaluation problem. Even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001654753
Large-scale environmental programs generally commit substantial societal resources, making the evaluation of their … and statistics literature on program evaluation could be utilized to advance considerably in this context. In particular …, the construction of a credible counterfactual situation is at the heart of the formal statistical evaluation problem. Even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446934