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We assess the effectiveness of Job Corps (JC), the largest job training program targeting disadvantaged youth in the United States, by constructing nonparametric bounds for the average and quantile treatment effects of the program on wages. Our preferred estimates point toward convincing...
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We assess the effectiveness of Job Corps (JC), the largest job training program targeting disadvantaged youth in the United States, by constructing nonparametric bounds for the average and quantile treatment effects of the program on wages. Our preferred estimates point toward convincing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118771
The paper evaluates the distributional effects on earnings and income of requiring young welfare recipients to fulfill conditions related to work and activation. It exploits within-social insurance office variation in policy arising from a geographically staggered reform in Norway. The reform...
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Recent studies have used a distributional analysis of welfare reform experiments suggesting that some individuals reduce hours in order to opt into welfare, an example of behavioral-induced participation. Using data on Connecticut's Jobs First experiment, we find no evidence of...
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state of Georgia to determine whether the change had an impact on employment and hours in the beer, wine, and liquor retail … took effect. Since there is no significant employment increase, it appears that employers adjusted to remaining open one …
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We provide a novel evidence about the innovation-employment nexus by decomposing it by R&D intensity in a continuous … relationship between the R&D-driven innovation and firm employment as well as address important econometric issues, which is not … innovation and employment entails important non-linearities responsible for significant differences in employment response to …
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The present paper estimates and decomposes the employment effect of innovation by R&D intensity levels. Our micro …&D investment and firm employment, and to address important econometric issues, which is not possible in the standard estimation … innovation by 1% may increase employment up to 0.7%. The job creation effect of innovation reaches its peak when R&D intensity is …
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The present paper estimates and decomposes the employment effect of innovation by R&D intensity levels. Our micro … the R&D investment and firm employment, and to address important econometric issues, which is not possible in the standard …: increasing innovation by 1% may increase employment up to 0.7%. The job creation effect of innovation reaches its peak when the R …
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Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on individual labor market outcomes. The data covers the period from 1994 to 2008. It is longitudinal and rich in life-style, health, and physical activity information. Exploiting...
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This paper examines recent trends in employment patterns on the labor market for youth and changing returns to early … employment stability over the past four decades. True state dependence is identified by exploiting exogenous variation in …. The results indicate decreasing employment stability for youth since the late 1980s limited to the lower half of the …
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