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Do unemployed workers benefit from enterprise zones? : the French experience
Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry; Selod, Harris - 2012
unemployed workers find employment by granting a significant wage-tax exemption (about one third of total labor costs) to firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530667
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Lower Barriers to Immigrant Healthcare Workers to Help Combat the COVID-19 Pandemic
Griswold, Daniel T. - 2020
In an industry already short of workers, hospitals and healthcare facilities are facing serious staffing shortages in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. As public officials in Washington and across the United States seek to increase the supply of medical equipment necessary to combat the virus,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835024
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Programme Heterogeneity and Propensity Score Matching : An Application to the Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies
Lechner, Michael - 2001
This paper investigates the question whether it really matters for microeconometric evaluation studies to take account of the fact that the programmes under consideration are heterogeneous. Assuming that selection into the different sub-programmes and the potential outcomes are independent given...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014155541
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A Note on the Common Support Problem in Applied Evaluation Studies
Lechner, Michael - 2001
This paper advocates the use of a nonparametric bounds analysis to check the robustness of the results of applied evaluation studies to the problem of a lack of common support. The typical responses by researchers of either ignoring it, or obtaining estimates only for the subpopulation within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014136510
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The Effectiveness of Job-Retention Schemes : Covid-19 Evidence from the German States
Aiyar, Shekhar S.; Dao, Mai - 2022
Kurzarbeit (KA), Germany’s short-time work program, is widely credited with saving jobs and supporting domestic demand during the COVID-19 recession. We quantify the impact by exploiting state-level variation in exposure to the pandemic shock and KA take-up. We construct a shift-share measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013300535
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Do Unemployed Workers Benefit from Enterprise Zones? The French Experience
Gobillon, Laurent - 2012
unemployed workers find employment by granting a significant wage-tax exemption (about one third of total labor costs) to firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110194
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Fear and employment during the COVID pandemic : evidence from search behaviour in the EU
Van Der Wielen, Wouter; Barrios Cobos, Salvador - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has inflicted an economic hardship unprecedented for the modern age. In this paper, we show that the health crisis and ensuing Great Lockdown, came with an unseen level of economic uncertainty. First, using a European dataset on country-level and regional internet searches,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291212
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Determinants and Persistence of Benefits from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme : Panel Data Analysis for Rajasthan, India
Jha, Raghbendra; Gaiha, Raghav; Pandey, Manoj K.; … - 2013
India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has been hailed as one of the country’s most creative social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014159088
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The Impact of Post-Release Employment on Recidivism in North Carolina
Berger-Gross, Andrew - 2022
relationship between post-release employment and subsequent criminal justice contact. Individuals who found employment shortly … were not employed, controlling for observed covariates. The impact of employment on recidivism varied widely by earnings …-paid individuals returned to prison as often as their counterparts who found no employment at all. These findings add to a growing body …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013291490
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Assessing the impact of training on employment : the case of East Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Prey, Hedwig - 1995
This paper is concerned with the effects of training on the future employment probability of trainees. During the … transformation process of the East German economy after reunification, employment decreased by a large amount. Therefore, many … with regard to the impact of participation in training on the future employment probability of the trainees. Our analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009542180