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Wirksamkeit der Förderung der beruflichen Weiterbildung vor und nach den Hartz-Reformen

Bonin, Holger; Schneider, Hilmar - 2006

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of occupational training programs for the unemployed before and after the substantial amendments in German labor market legislation known as Hartz reforms. Based on the official evaluation of the reforms, we show that program impacts vary much across...

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Reaching national Kyoto-targets in Germany by maintaining a sustainable development

Bayer, Stefan; Kemfert, Claudia - 2000

This paper investigates the sustainability of the German economy when reaching the Kyoto emissions reduction target. We use a special intergenerational discounting technique which actually takes into account intergenerational peculiarities in an overlapping generations modeling framework which...

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Reaching national Kyoto-targets in Germany by maintaining a sustainable development

Bayer, Stefan; Kemfert, Claudia - 2000

Within this paper, we analyse the fulfilment of the Kyoto-emissions reduction com-mitment exemplary in Germany and its … implication on long-term paths of all macro-variables. Germany, like all other industrial or Annex B coun-tries, has to reduce its … adjusted discounting (GAD) in comparison to conventional OLG-models. We show that within our model-framework Germany is able to …

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A New Cost-Benefit and Rate of Return Analysis for the Perry Preschool Program: A Summary

Heckman, James J.; Moon, Seong Hyeok; Pinto, Rodrigo; … - 2010

This paper summarizes our recent work on the rate of return and cost-benefit ratio of an influential early childhood program.

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Intergenerational Long Term Effects of Preschool: Structural Estimates from a Discrete Dynamic Programming Model

Heckman, James J.; Raut, Lakshmi Kanta - 2013

This paper formulates a structural dynamic programming model of preschool investment choices of altruistic parents and then empirically estimates the structural parameters of the model using the NLSY79 data. The paper finds that preschool investment significantly boosts cognitive and...

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Understanding the mechanisms through which an influential early childhood program boosted adult outcomes

Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Savelyev, Peter - 2012

A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the mechanisms producing these impacts. This paper uses longitudinal data on cognitive and personality...

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Sind ARGEn wirklich besser? Anmerkungen zur Evaluation der Betreuungsorganisation im Bereich der Grundsicherung

Schneider, Hilmar - 2009

Mit der Einführung von Arbeitslosengeld II wurde auch die behördliche Zuständigkeit für die Grundsicherung einer grundlegenden Reorganisation unterzogen. Während in der überwiegenden Mehrheit der Kommunen in Form der sogenannten Arbeitsgemeinschaften eine Mischverwaltung aus Bundesagentur...

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Wie nachhaltig ist das deutsche Jobwunder? Eine Reformbilanz

Schneider, Hilmar - 2012

Die Arbeitsmarktreformen von 2003 bis 2005 haben entscheidend zu einer bemerkenswerten Trendumkehr auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt beigetragen und damit auch einen wichtigen Beitrag geleistet, das Land besser auf die Konsequenzen des bevorstehenden demografischen Wandels vorzubereiten. Die...

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Klimawandel kostet die deutsche Volkswirtschaft Milliarden

Kemfert, Claudia - In: DIW Wochenbericht 74 (2007) 11, pp. 165-169

würde und damit die globale Oberflächentemperatur bis zum Jahr 2100 um bis zu 4,5°C stiege, fielen in Deutschland schon bis …

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Evaluating continuous training programs using the generalized propensity score

Kluve, Jochen; Schneider, Hilmar; Uhlendorff, Arne; … - 2007

This paper assesses the dynamics of treatment effects arising from variation in the duration of training. We use German administrative data that have the extraordinary feature that the amount of treatment varies continuously from 10 days to 395 days (i.e. 13 months). This feature allows us to...

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