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Review of the evidence on short-term education and skills training programs for out-of-school youth with a focus on the use of incentives
Clarke, Marguerite; Sharma, Meghna; Bhattacharjee, Pradyumna - 2021
Short-term education and skills training programs are a popular way to meet the needs of unemployed, out-of-school youth by providing them with an opportunity to quickly acquire qualifications and skills that can lead to productive employment. This paper reviews the global evidence to identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431851
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Active labor market policies
Crépon, Bruno; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2016
Active labor market policies are massively used with the objective being to improve labor market outcomes of individuals out of work. Many observational evaluation studies have been published. In this review, we critically assess policy effectiveness. We emphasize insights from recent randomized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580552
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Active labor market policies
Crépon, Bruno; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2016
Active labor market policies are massively used with the objective being to improve labor market outcomes of individuals out of work. Many observational evaluation studies have been published. In this review, we critically assess policy effectiveness. We emphasize insights from recent randomized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011598126
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Training the unemployed in France : how does it affect unemployment duration and recurrence?
Ferracci, Marc - 2007
policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We perform the first evaluation of training effects for the unemployed adults … in France, exploiting a unique longitudinal dataset from the unemployment insurance system. Using the so-called timing … unemployment, but has a significant and positive effect on the duration of the subsequent employment spell. Accounting for training …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646710
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Active labor market policy effects in a dynamic setting
Crépon, Bruno; Jolivet, Grégory; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2008
of training for unemployed workers in France, using a rich register data set. Training has little impact on unemployment … probability is high. -- Treatment ; program participation ; unemployment duration ; training ; propensity score ; matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003778983
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Get training or wait? : Long-run employment effects of training programs for the unemployed in West Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor);  … - 2006
inflows into unemployment for the years 1986/87 and 1993/94 and apply local linear matching based on the estimated propensity … score to estimate the effects of training programs starting during 1 to 2, 3 to 4, and 5 to 8 quarters of unemployment. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323169
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Get training or wait? : Long-run employment effects of training programs for the unemploymed in West Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor);  … - 2006
inflows into unemployment for the years 1986/87 and 1993/94 and apply local linear matching based on the estimated propensity … score to estimate the effects of training programs starting during 1 to 2, 3 to 4, and 5 to 8 quarters of unemployment. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003338016
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Active labor market policy effects in a dynamic setting
Crépon, Bruno (contributor) - 2009
of training for unemployed workers in France, using a rich register data set. Training has little impact on unemployment … probability is high. -- treatment ; program participation ; unemployment duration ; training ; propensity score ; matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796018
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Macroeconomic effects of active labor market policies
Zehnder, Tanja - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003819845
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Active labor market policy effects in a dynamic setting
Crépon, Bruno; Jolivet, Grégory; Berg, Gerard J. van den - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 7 (2009) 2/3, pp. 595-605
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003869628