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An evaluation of the Swedish system of active labour market programmes in the 1990s
Sianesi, Barbara - 2001
The low unemployment rates traditionally enjoyed by Sweden have often been attributed to the country's extensive system of active labour market programmes, which have thus frequently been regarded as a model for other countries to emulate. However, unemployment grew enormously in Sweden when the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292952
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Die Auswirkungen öffentlicher Gründungsförderung auf das Überleben und Wachstum junger Unternehmen
Almus, Matthias; Prantl, Susanne - 2001
identifiziert werden. Die empirischen Analysen basieren auf einem statistischen Matching-Verfahren, mit dem für jedes identifizierte … causal effects a statistical matching procedure is used to draw an adequate control group from the pool of all available …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297737
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Short-term training programs for immigrants: do effects differ from natives and why?
Aldashev, Alisher; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - 2010
propensity score matching estimators. To explain potential differences in effects between the groups, we suggest and apply a … decomposition method based on the matching procedure that allows identification of differences due to observable characteristics and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300013
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Evaluation of Swedish Youth Labour Market Programmes
Larsson, Laura - 2000
training. A non-parametric matching approach is applied to estimate the average program effects. Moreover, the results obtained … by matching are compared to results from standard linear regression and probit models, and a polychotomous selectivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321723
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Swedish active labour market programmes in the 1990s: Overall effectiveness and differential performance
Sianesi, Barbara - 2002
The 'Swedish model' of active labour market programmes is investigated in relation to some crucial institutional features with two aims: examining how successful it has been in the context of the high unemployment atypically experienced by Sweden in the 1990s and trying to derive some general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333072
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Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policy: Methodological Concepts and Empirical Estimates
Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco - 2000
explain the need for evaluation on the micro- and macroeconomic level, introduce the fundamental evaluation problem and … solutions to it, give an overview of the newer developments in evaluation literature and finally take a look on empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262444
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Nonparametric IV Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects with Covariates
Frölich, Markus - 2002
In this paper nonparametric instrumental variable estimation of local average treatment effects (LATE) is extended to incorporate confounding covariates. Estimation of local average treatment effects is appealing since their identification relies on much weaker assumptions than the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262665
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What is the Value of Knowing the Propensity Score for Estimating Average Treatment Effects?
Frölich, Markus - 2002
Propensity score matching is widely used in treatment evaluation to estimate average treatment effects. Nevertheless …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262697
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Programme Evaluation with Multiple Treatments
Frölich, Markus - 2002
This paper reviews the main identification and estimation strategies for microeconomic policy evaluation. Particular … nonparametric matching and weighting estimators of the average treatment effects and their properties are examined. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262703
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Does temporary agency work provide a stepping stone to regular employment?
Kvasnicka, Michael - 2005
Based on administrative data from the federal employment office in Germany, we apply matching techniques to estimate …
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