is conducted using a Matching estimator, and we discuss the principles surrounding the potential for this to be a valid … workers in the famly and the employment of the head of the family. …

voucher receipt using propensity score matching techniques together with regression adjustment. Full-sample results show …

-experimental impact evaluation techniques, in particular instrumental variable (IV) estimation and propensity score matching (PSM …

We estimate impacts on earnings and employment of the two primary adult workforce support and training programs under … histories, realize improved employment levels and increased average quarterly earnings of several hundred dollars. Earnings … employment gains.We document and attempt to explain the recent decline in employment dynamics in the U.S. We have four major …

selection and institutional knowledge regarding sources of conditional variation in participation. We employ several matching … the literature. We find modest, and imprecisely estimated, impacts on employment outcomes for men and larger, sometimes …

labour market policy ; propensity score matching ; pairwise matching ; workfare ; means-tested benefit recipients …

This paper introduces an innovative test of search and matching models using the exogenous variation available in … our methodology using the Canadian Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP), a social experiment providing a time-limited earnings … supplement for Income Assistance recipients who obtain full-time employment within a 12-month period. We find two features of the …

selection and institutional knowledge regarding sources of conditional variation in participation. We employ several matching … the literature. We find modest, and imprecisely estimated, impacts on employment outcomes for men and larger, sometimes …

matching function. One can easily choose a calibration to make the cyclical fluctuation in unemployment as large in the model … model as it is in the data. We show with a simple analytical calculation that in the standard job matching model, one cannot …

earnings supplement for Income Assistance recipients who obtain full time employment within a 12 month period. We find two …This paper introduces an innovative test of search and matching models using the exogenous variation available in … experimental data. We take an off-the-shelf Pissarides matching model and calibrate it to data on the control group from a …