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The matching method for treatment evaluation with selective participation and ineligibles
Costa Dias, Monica; Ichimura, Hidehiko; van den Berg, … - 2008
The matching method for treatment evaluation does not balance selective unobserved differences between treated and non-treated. We derive a simple correction term if there is an instrument that shifts the treatment probability to zero in specific cases. Policies with eligibility restrictions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273920
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The matching method for treatment evaluation with selective participation and ineligibles
Costa Dias, Monica (contributor);  … - 2008
The matching method for treatment evaluation does not balance selective unobserved differences between treated and non-treated. We derive a simple correction term if there is an instrument that shifts the treatment probability to zero in specific cases. Policies with eligibility restrictions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003709718
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Who Gets Over the Training Hurdle? : A Study of the Training Experiences of Young Men and Women in Britain
Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L. - 1997
Using longitudinal data from the British National Child Development Study, this paper examines gender differences in the determinants of work-related training. The analysis covers a crucial decade in the working lives of the 1958 birth cohort of young men and women--the years spanning the ages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014060872
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The impact of local labour market conditions on participation in further education in England
Clark, Damon - 2002
Over the past 30 years, participation in Further Education (FE) in England has been markedly counter-cyclical. What is more, it has yet to increase beyond the peak of 70% reached in 1993, much to the concern of policy-makers. An obvious explanation for these facts is the availability of labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412481
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The costs of early school leaving in Europe
Brunello, Giorgio; De Paola, Maria - 2013
The reduction of early school leaving to less than 10 percent of the relevant population by 2020 is a headline target in the Europe 2020 strategy and one of the five benchmarks of the strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training. Designing adequate policies to combat...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224587
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The costs of early school leaving in Europe
Brunello, Giorgio; De Paola, Maria - In: IZA journal of labor policy 3 (2014), pp. 1-31
The reduction of early school leaving to less than 10 percent of the relevant population by 2020 is a headline target in the Europe 2020 strategy and one of the five benchmarks of the strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training. Designing adequate policies to combat...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010417202
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Overqualification, job dissatisfaction, and increasing dispersion in the returns to graduate education
Green, Francis; Zhu, Yu - 2008
to rising overqualification. We distinguish between and validate measures of Real and Formal overqualification, according … the trend in overqualification types between 1992 and 2006. The distinction between types is relevant because employees in … the Real Overqualification group experience greater, and more sharply rising, pay penalties than those in the Formal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290670
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Unemployment versus inactivity: An analysis of the earnings and labor force status of prime age men in France, the UK, and the US at the end of the 20th century
Bi?áková, Alena - 2005
This paper focuses on the differences in earnings and labor force status of low-skilled prime age men in France, the United Kingdom, and the United States at the end of the 20th century, and their relation to the differences in wage dispersion. In the UK and the US, where the bottom of the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335418
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State Dependence in Unemployment Incidence: Evidence for British Men Revisited
Arulampalam, Wiji - 2002
The issues of persistence in the observed labour market status of men are investigated using the British Household Panel Survey for the period 1991-97. The paper extends previous work in many directions. In particular, problems of endogenous initial conditions, and unobserved heterogeneity, are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262384
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Unemployment versus inactivity : an analysis of the earnings and labor force status of prime age men in France, the UK, and the US at the end of the 20th century
Bičáková, Alena (contributor) - 2005
This paper focuses on the differences in earnings and labor force status of low-skilled prime age men in France, the United Kingdom, and the United States at the end of the 20th century, and their relation to the differences in wage dispersion. In the UK and the US, where the bottom of the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003117778