The mismatch between laborer's abilities and the target subject of the training program is one of the most primary concerns for a labor training program. The ability of different workers may significantly affect the outcomes of a labor training program. The objective of this paper is to look at...

This volume was prepared by Susanne Link during her stay at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Department of Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute of Economic Research. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Departure of the University of Munich in...

The goal of this paper is to evaluate a ?couples-based? policy intervention designed to reduce the number of Australian families without work. In 2000 and 2001, the Australian Government piloted a new counseling initiative targeted towards couple-headed families with dependent children in which...

Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there areno spillovers between participants and nonparticipants. We show that thisassumption is violated for a Danish activation program for unemployed workers.Using a difference-in-difference model we show that the...

Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there are no spillovers between participants and nonparticipants. We show that this assumption is violated for a Danish activation program for unemployed workers. Using a difference-in-difference model we show that the...

Das Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich (AMS) hat im Oktober 2009 ein "AMS Standing Committee on New Skills" mit der Zielsetzung eingesetzt, Zeiten der krisenbedingten betrieblichen Unterauslastung zu nutzen, um in Verbindung mit arbeitsmarktpolitischen UnterstützungsmaßnahmenArbeitskräfte...

Im Oktober 2009 wurde vom Verwaltungsrat des Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich (AMS) ein "AMS Standing Committee on New Skills" eingerichtet, um - vor demHintergrund der zu diesem Zeitpunkt schwierigen wirtschaftlichen Lage - Zeiten der betrieblichen Unterauslastung in Verbindung mit...

Until very recently, the conventional wisdom was that the return to education was very high in Africa. However, some recent analysis point to low average returns to education in some African countries including Nigeria. Given these low returns to education, a relevant question is what causes low...

This paper uses ECHP and OECD data for 14 EU countries to explore the role of labour market factors in explaining cross-national differences in the dynamic structure of earnings: in permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility. Based on ECHP, minimum distance estimator is...