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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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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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Omnimetrics and awards
Frey, Bruno S. - 2017
The digital revolution has led to a quantification of ever more areas of human life and society. At the same time, there is an explosion of the number of awards, which by their very nature are based on non-quantified performance. Will quantification take over completely, leading to...
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Program evaluation and spillover effects
Angelucci, Manuela; Di Maro, Vincenzo - 2015
evaluation. The paper defines spillover effects and discusses why it is important to measure them. It explains how to design a … such that they explain the cause of these effects and whom they affect. Such an evaluation design is necessary to avoid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010517040
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Work disability, work, and justification bias in Europe and the U.S.
Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, Arthur van - 2009
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003895090
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Methods for evaluating educational programs : does writing center participation affect student achievement?
Bredtmann, Julia; Crede, Carsten J.; Otten, Sebastian - 2011
with presumed selfperceptional biases of students in feedback surveys, we use different quantitative evaluation methods and … compare the results to corresponding qualitative student surveys. Based on this evaluation, we present and discuss the … effectiveness of educational measures. -- Performance evaluation ; educational programs ; student evaluation ; empirical methods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580301
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Work disability, work, and justification bias in Europe and the U.S.
Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, Arthur van - 2009
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?ʺ A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003914037
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Scaling up ecosystem services values : methodology, applicability and a case study
Brander, Luke; Ghermandi, Andrea; Kuik, Onno J.; … - 2010
The approach of using existing data on economic values of local ecosystem services for an assessment of these values at a larger geographical scale can be called “scaling up”. In a scaling-up exercise, economic values from a particular study site are transferred to another geographical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008728839
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Mintavétel és elemzési módszerek az oktatási integrációs program hatásviszgálatában, és a hatásvizsgálatból levonható követketetések
Kézdi, Gábor; Surányi, Éva - 2010
integrated environment. The report on the impact evaluation of the program is available at Kézdi and Surányi (2009). The results … and methods of the impact evaluation research were criticized in a paper published (in Hungarian) in Magyar Tudomány … paper we show that the critiques are unfounded. In this study we also summarize the conclusions from the impact evaluation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003973923
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Nem-kognitív készségek mérése az oktatási integrációs program hatásvizsgálatában
Kézdi, Gábor; Surányi, Éva - 2010
the theoretical background and the details of the design of the measurement instrument adopted in the evaluation of the … general points of the design of such measurement instruments. The results and methods of the impact evaluation research were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003973955