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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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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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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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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/10011412411
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Evaluation of Swedish youth labour market programmes
Larsson, Laura - 2000
-employment probability, and probability of regular education. A non-parametric matching approach based on conditional independence assumption … is applied to estimate the average program effects. Moreover, the results obtained by matching are compared to results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011575124
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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/10011586304
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The evaluation of start-up subsidies for the unemployed and the role of unobserved characteristics for matching estimators : conference paper
Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2013 - Preliminary draft
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344639
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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/10011339682