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The effect of vocational employment training on the individual transition rate from unemployment to work
Richardson, Katarina; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2002
Amongst the active labor market policy programs for the unemployed in Sweden, the vocational employment training program is the most ambitious and expensive. We analyze its effect on the individual transition rate from unemployment to employment using a unique set of administrative data and a...
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The long-term impacts of vocational rehabilitation
Westlie, Lars (contributor) - 2008
return of the VR programs. -- Vocational rehabilitation ; program evaluation ; multivariate hazards ; costbenefit analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003763080
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The event-history approach to program evaluation
Abbring, Jaap H. - 2007
-Markov event-history model, discussits application to program evaluation, and analyze its empirical content.The results of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349178
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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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Enhancing objectivity and decision relevance : a better framework for evaluating cohesion policies
Heinemann, Friedrich; Asatryan, Zareh; Bachtrögler, Julia - 2024
By international comparison as well as compared to other EU policies, the EU‘s Cohesion Policy (CP) evaluation system … is far developed and institutionalized. This paper analyses the remaining gaps and shortcomings in the CP evaluation … presence of a broad and imprecise CP objective function emerges as a key challenge for evaluations. The evaluation culture is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014566802
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Too Bad to Benefit? Effect Heterogeneity ofPublic Training Programs
Rinne, Ulf; Schneider, Marc; Uhlendorff, Arne - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This study analyzes the treatment effects of public training programs for the unemployed inGermany. Based on propensity score matching methods we extend the picture that has beensketched in previous studies by estimating treatment effects of medium-term programs fordifferent sub-groups with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860773
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What active labour market programmes work for immigrants in Europe? : A meta-analysis of the evaluation literature
Butschek, Sebastian; Walter, Thomas - 2013
A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009784011
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Estimation in a duration model for evaluating educational programs
Brännäs, Kurt - 1999
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