countries. Previous evaluation results show pre-dominantly (very) positive results indicating that these programs are an … effective way to increase employment probabilities and income of participants. Most of the studies are using matching estimators … previous evaluation studies are based on administrative data, information on such variables is not available. This raises the …

earnings in subsequent employment. Any evaluation needs to take into account that some of those who are not trained at a …

. Using propensity score matching (PSM) as our main empirical approach, we provide estimates of long-term effects of the post …

linear matching based on the estimated propensity score to estimate the average treatment effect on the treated of SPST … effects tend to persist almost completely until the end of our evaluation period. The positive effects are stronger in West …

linear matching based on the estimated propensity score to estimate the average treatment effect on the treated of SPST … effects tend to persist almost completely until the end of our evaluation period. The positive effects are stronger in West …

socioeconomic characteristics in the two groups is eliminated by the appliance of a matching procedure. Findings demonstrate that …

The matching method for treatment evaluation does not balance selective unobserved differences between treated and non …, provide a natural application. In an empirical analysis, we first examine the performance of matching versus regression …, where compliance is imperfect among the young. Adjusting the matching estimator for selectivity changes the results towards …